Yuchi Indian tribe
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This video is over the tribe and how they lived through the Indian removal act.
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Hey, my name is cooper Car and I got the
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UCI indian try um the energy spent most of their
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years as a tribe and northeastern Tennessee.
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Um They UCI had two names.
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Gucci and corona.
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Um Most popularly they're called Gucci.
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Uh The UCI indians lived in houses made of clay
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and wooden frames.
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Um Their houses were very sturdy uh could hold many
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people. Um They were very safe for any weather disasters
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or anything that they experienced in Tennessee.
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Uh They enjoy corn, beans and squash for their main
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food source.
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But they also had lots of meat like uh mostly
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deer meat.
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Uh huh.
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Yeah the UCI indian spent most of their time in
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Tennessee. But the indian act move them to Oklahoma.
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Um Some more to go about.
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Um Gucci and hooches uh housing.
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Um They would often put wooden um fences and then
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cover it in clay around their uh helms um to
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protect it from predators from getting into um their little
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town and stealing food or even some young Children.
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Um some of what they wore uh Gucci man war
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breech clout um and the women wore wraparound skirts made
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of deerskin.
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Um the indian act move them to Oklahoma where many
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of them join the creek nation in Oklahoma.
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Um Gucci indians now live in north uh northeastern Oklahoma.
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Once in Oklahoma they established uh duck creek pull cat
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and sand creek um in Oklahoma.
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The chief was camp UCI Bernard.
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Um They were great mound builders.
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Um I was mainly what they did and what they
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were best at.
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Mm they would often build ponds or rivers, like they
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would build next to ponds or rivers, um, to easily
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access water um or anything that they'll need um as
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a tribe.
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Um They were very big tribe and often um joined
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with other tribes.
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They wanted to join the letter tribes to make one
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big tribe and yeah, as UCI indians.