What are animal the Cherokee caught and ate?

1. What animals did the Cherokee eat?
2. What the Cherokee ate?
3. What did the Cherokee hunt with?
4. What animals are sacred to Cherokee?

What animals did the Cherokee eat?

The Cherokee lived off a combination of farming, hunting, and gathering. They farmed vegetables such as corn, squash, and beans. They also hunted animals such as deer, rabbits, turkey, and even bears.

What the Cherokee ate?

The food that the Cherokee tribe ate included deer (venison), bear, buffalo, elk, squirrel, rabbit, opossum and other small game and fish. Their staple foods were corn, squash and and beans supplemented with wild onions, rice, mushrooms, greens, berries and nuts.

What did the Cherokee hunt with?

Cherokee men hunted mainly for sustenance and different game required different tools. Bows and arrows were primarily used to hunt deer, turkey and other large game. Bows were often made from hickory and black locust trees. ... For small game like squirrels and rabbits, Cherokees used blowguns.

What animals are sacred to Cherokee?

Sacred Animals

The cougar and the owl hold special significance to the Cherokee people. It is said they were the only animals who stayed awake during the seven nights of creation, so to this day they are nocturnal. Cherokee culture associated the spaces on the back of the turtle with the 13 yearly phases of the moon.