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Since 1952, visitors have been traveling back in time to experience the Cherokee way of life, circa 1750, at the Oconaluftee Indian Village - a live working Indian village. While on tour, visitors will observe residents in native dress involved in numerous activities - many still practiced today - such as canoe hulling, preparing cornbread, arrowhead knapping, mask making, pottery, storytelling, basket weaving, beading, and other native skills.
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On September 19-20, the third annual Southeastern Tribes Cultural Arts celebration will bring together master dancers, craftsmen, artists and athletes from the five main southeastern tribes - Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole and Choctaw. This educational and entertaining event teaches and perpetuates the history and culture of these tribes through live demonstrations of traditional tribal dance, storytelling performances, craft demonstrations, primitive skills encampment and juried competitions.
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The first Cherokee Indian Fair was held in 1912 as a way for the Cherokee to promote tourism. The focus of the fair was originally to celebrate the harvest, with hundreds of agricultural-related competitions. Today, at the Fair’s exhibit hall, visitors will find hundreds of the largest, tastiest, and prettiest fruits and vegetables that the fall harvest has to offer.
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The Cherokees have fished the pristine waters of the Qualla Boundary for some 11,000 years, using fish weirs and catching predominately sucker fish species, until the late 19th century. Ancient stone fish traps, carved bone fishhooks, legends and lore all confirm this. The Cherokee and their ancestors also caught fish with bows and arrows, spears and by stunning the fish using chemicals released from beaten walnut bark, then dipping up the stupefied fish in baskets. Pine and poplar canoes forty feet long carried fifteen to twenty Cherokee fishermen to the most productive waters.
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