USA - Cherokees | Native American Flag Interactive Sweatshirt

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The principal people of the southern Appalachians whose syllabary, constitution, and newspaper built the most literate Native nation in America before the Trail of Tears tried to e rase everything they had created. Cherokee People — the Aniyunwiya, the Principal People, whose traditional territory encompassed the southern Appalachian highlands of present-day North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, the mountain homeland of the Cherokee people whose towns and council houses in the river valleys of the Blue Ridge and the Smoky Mountains represented one of the most populous and politically sophisticated indigenous civilizations of the eastern woodlands, the Cherokee nation at the height of its power controlling a territory of approximately forty thousand square miles and a population of perhaps twenty-five thousand people whose agricultural villages, ceremonial ball games, and council governance maintained a way of life of remarkable stability and cultural richness across the centuries before European contact transformed the conditions of Cherokee existence. The Cherokee world — whose people's response to the pressures of American expansion in the early nineteenth century produced one of the most extraordinary acts of cultural self-determination in the history of any indigenous people anywhere in the world, the Cherokee polymath Sequoyah's creation between 1809 and 1821 of the Cherokee syllabary, an eighty-six character writing system representing every sound in the Cherokee language whose adoption by the Cherokee people with a speed and enthusiasm that astonished American observers produced within years a Cherokee-speaking literate population whose rate of literacy exceeded that of their white American neighbors, the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper established in 1828 as the first Native American newspaper published in both English and an indigenous language standing as the most visible symbol of a Cherokee national renaissance whose written constitution, bicameral legislature, supreme court, and public school system modeled on American democratic institutions represented the Cherokee people's determination to meet the United States on its own terms and demonstrate beyond any reasonable argument that the civilization justification for Indian removal was a lie, whose Trail of Tears of 1838 to 1839, the forced removal of approximately sixteen thousand Cherokee men, women, and children from their Appalachian homeland to Indian Territory in Oklahoma under the administration of President Martin Van Buren following the fraudulent Treaty of New Echota signed by an unauthorized minority faction of the Cherokee Nation, killed between four and eight thousand Cherokee people on the winter marches whose suffering gave the removal its name, Nunna daul Tsuny, the trail where they cried, and whose Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the descendants of the approximately one thousand Cherokee people who evaded removal by hiding in the North Carolina mountains and whose right to remain was secured by the Cherokee leader Tsali's sacrifice and the legal efforts of William Holland Thomas, maintains today in the Qualla Boundary of western North Carolina the living presence of the Principal People in their Appalachian homeland. This interactive sweatshirt connects you to that literate and enduring legacy with a QR code linking to the full story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive sweatshirts that carry flags of native Americans in the US. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse US population.Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality sweatshirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.Few more things to know about this sweatshirt:• Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience• Designed to educate about a nation's proud history milestones and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand• 50% cotton, 50% polyester• Regular fit, sturdy and warm, pre-shrunk soft-feel fabric• Double-needle stitched spandex collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem Size guide LENGTH (inches) WIDTH (inches) S 27 20 M 28 22 L 29 24 XL 30 26 2XL 31 28 LENGTH (cm) WIDTH (cm) S 68.6 50.8 M 71.1 55.9 L 73.7 61 XL 76.2 66 2XL 78.7 71.1 Show more