Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Native American Culture: Cherokee Singer

9th - 10th
Watch Cherokee singer Paula Nelson perform two songs that were taped at the 2006 Festival of Native Peoples in Cherokee, N.C.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Native Traditions, Past and Present

9th - 10th
Modern Cherokee Indians struggle to hold on to their ancient traditions and crafts. 3 different Cherokees artists teach their art and stories to the next generation, passing down cultural traditions so they will survive.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Tough Choices

9th - 10th
The Cherokees had an important decision to make. Should they maintain their own culture resisting that of the white man, or should they give up their ways and adopt those of white settlers?
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: Keeping Cultures Alive Today

9th - 10th
This segment shows ways in which today's Cherokees are transmitting the remnants of their culture to the younger generation in an attempt to preserve what is left.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Georgia Stories: A Visit to New Echota

9th - 10th
A tour of the New Echota Historic Site in Gordon County in Georgia points out the aspects of Cherokee culture that paralleled that of whites. It was here that Sequoyah developed the Cherokee alphabet giving Cherokees a written language.