The Chronicles of America series . lmost asgreat an advance upon the brush piles of the Utesas our skyscrapers are upon them. Farther south in the Carolinas, the Cherokees,another Iroquoian tribe, stand out prominently byreason of their unusual mental ability. Under theinfluence of the white man, the Cherokees werethe first to adopt a constitutional form of govern-ment embodied in a code of laws written in theirown language. Their language was reduced towriting by means of an alphabet which one of theirnumber named Sequoya had devised. Sequoyaand other leaders, however, may not have beenpure I
The Chronicles of America series . lmost asgreat an advance upon the brush piles of the Utesas our skyscrapers are upon them. Farther south in the Carolinas, the Cherokees,another Iroquoian tribe, stand out prominently byreason of their unusual mental ability. Under theinfluence of the white man, the Cherokees werethe first to adopt a constitutional form of govern-ment embodied in a code of laws written in theirown language. Their language was reduced towriting by means of an alphabet which one of theirnumber named Sequoya had devised. Sequoyaand other leaders, however, may not have beenpure Indians, for by that time much white bloodhad been mixed with the tribe. Yet even beforethe coming of the white man the Cherokees wereapparently more advanced in agriculture than theIroquois were, but less advanced in their form ofgovernment, in their treatment of women, and inmany other respects. IROQUOIS FORT Engraving after a drawing by Champlain, in his Voyages et Descou-vertures faites en la Xouvelle France, published in THE RED MAN IN AMERICA 161 In general, as we go from north to south in theregion of deciduous forests, we find that among theearly Indians agriculture became more and moreimportant and the people more sedentary, thoughnot always more progressive in other ways. TheCatawbas, for instance, in South Carolina weresedentary agriculturists and seem to have differedlittle in general customs from their men were brave and honest but lacking inenergy. In the Muskhogean family of Indians,comprising the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, andSeminoles, who occupied the Gulf States from Geor-gia to Mississippi, all the tribes were agriculturaland sedentary and occupied villages of substantialhouses. The towns near the tribal frontiers wereusually palisaded, but those more remote from in-vasion were unprotected. All these Indians werebrave but not warlike in the violent fashion of theFive Nations. The Choctaws would fight only inself-defense, it was said,
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