ᏂᎬᏩᏍᏓ ᏓᏓᏁᏜᏅ ᏗᎦᏘᏯ ᏧᏂᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᏗᎢ

Secretary of Natural Resources Office

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Ethnobiology

Plants and animals have always held places of importance to the Cherokee people. Below are a few plants and animals that have significant meaning to Cherokees.

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Osage Orange
1.5 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

Osage Orange wood is renowned for its use in crafting Cherokee bows. It is not an easy wood to carve but affords itself to strong, fast, and durable bows.
Persimmon
2.2 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

Persimmons were eaten raw by Cherokees, and also used to make persimmon bread, and would also dry the fruit to make “prunes”.
Rattlesnake Master
2.2 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

Rattlesnake Master is known by Cherokee experts as a “warrior’s plant” and as a “survival kit.”
Red Oak
2 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

Cherokees use the wood from the Red Oak to keep the sacred eternal fire burning at pow wows.
Red-tailed Hawk
1.8 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

The Red-tailed Hawk is said to be a protector spirit of the Cherokees and is therefore considered sacred. Tail feathers were and are used ceremonially.
River Cane
2.6 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

River cane has been used for many generations in making arrows, baskets, blowguns, and flutes.
Shagbark
1.8 MB -- Updated:6/10/2019

Shagbark hickory can be found growing in the oak-hickory forests in Adair, Cherokee and southern Delaware counties.
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