Cherokee_Agriculture+and+the+Economy

=Agriculture and the Economy = Celeste Billung-Meyer (back to rise)  - The Cherokee were hunters, gatherers and farmers (AAANativeArts, [|Food])

Plants
 - Common crops; corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and pumpkins (Blue Ridge, [|Agriculture]) - After the Europeans came they grew; peaches, watermelons, apples, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, flax and cotton too (Blue Ridge, [|Agriculture] and AAANativeArts, [|Food]) - The Cherokee would gather nuts and fruits to supplement their diet (AAANativeArts, [|Food]) - They would also gather medicinal plants such as; blackberry, black gum, hummingbird blossoms, cattail, greenbrier, mint, mullein, sumac, wild ginger, wild rose, yarrow and yellow dock (Blue Ridge, [|Agriculture]) - When taking a medicinal herb, the Cherokee would only take one after they had already seen four others (to make sure that they were enough left) and then they would leave a small gift such as a small bead in place of the plant (Blue Ridge, [|Agriculture]) - Women were responsible for farming and gathering (Think Quest, [|Food]) - In the mid-eighteenth century farming became more of a focus and the men started to take it over (AAANativeArts, [|Food])

Animals
- Common game; wild hogs, white-tailed deer, bears, rabbits and elk (AAANativeArts, [|Food] and Think Quest, [|Game]) - For fishing, the Cherokee would put a certain poison (buckeye pulp) in the water that would stun the fish and make them float to the top of the river where they were easy to catch (AAANativeArts, [|Food]) - Men were responsible for hunting and fishing (AAANativeArts, [|Food]) - After the Europeans came, the Cherokee began to breed horses and eventually cattle too were added to their selection of livestock (Blue Ridge, [|Agriculture]) - The live stock were fed pumpkins which were grown by the Cherokee (Think Quest, [|Plants])

