- Fact 2 - Origin of state's name:
French interpretation of a Sioux word "acansa," meaning
"downstream place."
- Fact 3 - Features of the area:
Eastern delta and prairie, southern lowland forests,
north-western highlands including the Ozark plateaus
- Fact 4 - Border States: Louisiana
Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Tennessee Texas
- Fact 5 - The Caddo Indians are
plains Indians related to the Wichita and Pawnee tribes
- Fact 6 - The Chickasaw warred
constantly with the Choctaw, the Creek, the Cherokee, and the
Shawnee tribes. Their language, Chickasaw, is a Muskogean
language closely related to that of the Choctaw. They were
removed to Indian Territory to Oklahoma in the 1830s.
- Fact 7 - The culture of the Osage Indians
was marked by the combination of village agriculture and buffalo
hunting. Their language is Siouan
- Fact 8 - The Quapaw Indians are
also called the Arkansas Indians. The state of Arkansas was
named after the Quapaw, who were called Akansea or Akansa,
meaning "land of the downriver people"
- Fact 9 - The Tunica Biloxi Indians were
hunter farmers and both the men and women planted and harvested
crops such as corn, beans, and pumpkins
- Fact 10 - The
Cherokee Indians
were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes", because they had
assimilated cultural and customs of the white settlers and
colonists. The Cherokee refer to themselves as the "Principal
People"
- Fact 11 - The "Five Civilized Tribes" were the
Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw,
Creek, and
Seminole
- Fact 12 - Homes and Houses: Wattle and Daub Houses
(Asi) were used
by the Cherokee who wanted
permanent homes to suit their farmer-hunter life styles
- Fact 13 - Asi - Wattle and Daub Houses were
made by using a framework of poles intertwined with
branches and vines covered with mud
- Fact 14 - Chickasaw villages were
often surrounded by palisades to guard against attack
- Fact 15 -
- Fact 12 - Headdresses: Roach
headdresses were worn by the
Cherokee and other tribes of Arkansas which was made of a stiff
thin strip of animal hair that goes over the top of the head.
They were held open by comb-like objects, originally carved of
antler. Roach headdresses stood straight up from the
head like a tuft or crest and are closely associated with the
Mohawk or Mohican tribes. Roach headdresses were made from a
variety of hairs including white deer tail hair, often dyed red,
moose-hair, porcupine hair and black turkey beard.
- Fact 13 -
Roach headdresses were
attached to a scalp-lock to look like a crest, with the rest of
the head probably shaven
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