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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • THE CHEROKEE INDIANS The 3 200 members of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee JNation of Indians make their home on a 63,000-acre reservation in Western North Carolina, adjoining the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. During the early part of October each year the Cherokees hold their great harvest festival, known as the annual Cherokee Indian Fair. The tine agricultural exhibits, the arts and crafts, the ancient ceremonial dances, and the athletic contests, such as the games of Indian ball, archery shooting, and the blow-gun competition, attract thousands of visitors. The Great Smokies, the Balsam Mountains, and other ranges in and near the National Park are rich in the legendary superstitions of the Cherokees. They have been enabled to preserve much of their mythology because thev alone of the more northerly aborigines developed a definite system of writing m the form of Sequoyah's syllabary. Their myth- Cherokces playing game of Indian Ball. 116
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