Winter houses helped Cherokee survive cold

  • A replica Cherokee winter house stood at the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Okla. Photo by Cindy Downes/Contributing Photographer
    A replica Cherokee winter house stood at the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Okla. Photo by Cindy Downes/Contributing Photographer
As winter began to show its teeth over the last few weeks, mountain-dwellers may have felt tempted to crawl in a hole in the ground and not come out until spring.  The instinct to hibernate can be…

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