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class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Other sources of early Cherokee history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_sources_of_early_Cherokee_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-History-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle History subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-17th_century:_English_contact" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#17th_century:_English_contact"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>17th century: English contact</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-17th_century:_English_contact-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-18th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#18th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>18th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-18th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Scots_(and_other_Europeans)_among_the_Cherokee_in_the_18th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scots_(and_other_Europeans)_among_the_Cherokee_in_the_18th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.1</span> <span>Scots (and other Europeans) among the Cherokee in the 18th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scots_(and_other_Europeans)_among_the_Cherokee_in_the_18th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#19th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>19th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-19th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Acculturation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acculturation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.1</span> <span>Acculturation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acculturation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Removal_era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Removal_era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.2</span> <span>Removal era</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Removal_era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Trail_of_Tears" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trail_of_Tears"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.2.1</span> <span>Trail of Tears</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trail_of_Tears-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eastern_Band" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Band"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.2.2</span> <span>Eastern Band</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Band-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Civil_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.3</span> <span>Civil War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reconstruction_and_late_19th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reconstruction_and_late_19th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.4</span> <span>Reconstruction and late 19th century</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reconstruction_and_late_19th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tribal_land_jurisdiction_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tribal_land_jurisdiction_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.5</span> <span>Tribal land jurisdiction status</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tribal_land_jurisdiction_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Population_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Population history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Culture</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Culture subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Spirituality" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spirituality"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Spirituality</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spirituality-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cultural_institutions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cultural_institutions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Cultural institutions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cultural_institutions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Marriage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marriage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Marriage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marriage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ethnobotany_definition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ethnobotany_definition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Ethnobotany definition</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ethnobotany_definition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gender_roles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gender_roles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Gender roles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gender_roles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Slavery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Slavery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Slavery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Slavery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Funeral_rites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Funeral_rites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.7</span> <span>Funeral rites</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Funeral_rites-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Language_and_writing_system" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Language_and_writing_system"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Language and writing system</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Language_and_writing_system-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Treaties_and_government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Treaties_and_government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Treaties and government</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Treaties_and_government-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Treaties and government subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Treaties_and_government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Treaties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Treaties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Treaties</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Treaties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.2</span> <span>Government</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_Cherokee_tribes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_Cherokee_tribes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Modern Cherokee tribes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Modern_Cherokee_tribes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Modern Cherokee tribes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Modern_Cherokee_tribes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Cherokee_Nation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cherokee_Nation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Cherokee Nation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cherokee_Nation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3</span> <span>United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relations_among_the_three_federally_recognized_Cherokee_tribes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relations_among_the_three_federally_recognized_Cherokee_tribes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.4</span> <span>Relations among the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relations_among_the_three_federally_recognized_Cherokee_tribes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Contemporary_settlement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Contemporary_settlement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Contemporary settlement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Contemporary_settlement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Membership_controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Membership_controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Membership controversies</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Membership_controversies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Membership controversies subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Membership_controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Tribal_recognition_and_citizenship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tribal_recognition_and_citizenship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.1</span> <span>Tribal recognition and citizenship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tribal_recognition_and_citizenship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cherokee_Freedmen" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cherokee_Freedmen"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.2</span> <span>Cherokee Freedmen</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cherokee_Freedmen-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of 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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8C%BB%E1%88%8B%E1%8C%8A" title="ጻላጊ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ጻላጊ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_(%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9)" title="شيروكي (قبيلة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="شيروكي (قبيلة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheroqui" title="Cheroqui – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Cheroqui" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87erokil%C9%99r" title="Çerokilər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Çerokilər" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%84%D8%B1" title="چروکی‌‌لر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="چروکی‌‌لر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%96" title="Чэрокі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Чэрокі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokees" title="Cherokees – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Cherokees" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cerok%C3%ADov%C3%A9" title="Čerokíové – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Čerokíové" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsieroc%C3%AFaid" title="Tsierocïaid – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Tsierocïaid" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9%C3%A9wokii_Dine%CA%BC%C3%A9" title="Chééwokii Dineʼé – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Chééwokii Dineʼé" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Diné bizaad</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BA%CE%B9" title="Τσερόκι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τσερόκι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheroqui" title="Cheroqui – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cheroqui" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88erokoj" title="Ĉerokoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ĉerokoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txeroki" title="Txeroki – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Txeroki" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="چروکی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="چروکی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee-indi%C3%A1narnir" title="Cherokee-indiánarnir – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Cherokee-indiánarnir" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokees" title="Cherokees – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Cherokees" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiric%C3%ADoch" title="Seiricíoch – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Seiricíoch" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobo_cherokee" title="Pobo cherokee – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Pobo cherokee" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%B4%EB%A1%9C%ED%82%A4%EC%A1%B1" title="체로키족 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="체로키족" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Չերոկիներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Չերոկիներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80" title="चेरोकी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="चेरोकी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Indijanci" title="Cherokee Indijanci – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Cherokee Indijanci" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(gente)" title="Cherokee (gente) – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Cherokee (gente)" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9r%C3%B3kar" title="Sérókar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sérókar" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%27%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99" title="צ'רוקי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צ'רוקי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A9%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="ჩეროკები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჩეროკები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokeenses" title="Cherokeenses – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Cherokeenses" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Ciroki" title="Čiroki – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Čiroki" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cerokiai" title="Čerokiai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Čerokiai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(vouk)" title="Cherokee (vouk) – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Cherokee (vouk)" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cserokik" title="Cserokik – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Cserokik" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%80" title="ചെറോക്കീ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ചെറോക്കീ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80" title="चेरोकी – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="चेरोकी" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(volk)" title="Cherokee (volk) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Cherokee (volk)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC" title="チェロキー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="チェロキー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiroqilar" title="Chiroqilar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Chiroqilar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(Volk)" title="Cherokee (Volk) – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Cherokee (Volk)" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czirokezi" title="Czirokezi – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Czirokezi" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokees" title="Cherokees – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cherokees" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiruki" title="Chiruki – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Chiruki" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8" title="Чероки – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Чероки" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Cherokee" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokeet" title="Cherokeet – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Cherokeet" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokeser" title="Cherokeser – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Cherokeser" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%80" title="செரோக்கீ – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="செரோக்கீ" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B5" title="เชโรกี – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เชโรกี" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8F%A3%E1%8E%B3%E1%8E%A9" title="ᏣᎳᎩ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᏣᎳᎩ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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class="plainlist"><ul><li>Cherokee</li><li>ᏣᎳᎩ</li><li>ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ</li></ul></div></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Henry_Inman_-_Sequoyah_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3869" data-file-height="4644" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a>, creator of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a> as painted by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Inman_(painter)" title="Henry Inman (painter)">Henry Inman</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1830</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>316,049 enrolled</b> tribal citizens <br />(Eastern Band: >13,000, Cherokee Nation: 288,749, United Keetoowah Band: 14,300)<sup id="cite_ref-oia_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oia-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> <b>819,105 claimed</b> Cherokee ancestry in the 2010 Census<sup id="cite_ref-slate.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slate.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>: large ethnic diaspora community, 22,124 registered tribal citizens<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>: 16,158 (0.2%)<sup id="cite_ref-census_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>: 102,580 (2.7%) – extends to nearby Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri<sup id="cite_ref-census_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>: 3,428<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> </p> <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>: 11,620 Residents of Canada identified as having Cherokee Ancestry in the <a href="/wiki/2016_Canadian_census" title="2016 Canadian census">2016 Canadian Census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" 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typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Tsalagi_word.svg/40px-Tsalagi_word.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Tsalagi_word.svg/60px-Tsalagi_word.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Tsalagi_word.svg/80px-Tsalagi_word.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="98" data-file-height="35" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><b>This article contains <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabic characters</a>.</b> Without proper <a href="/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support#Cherokee" title="Help:Multilingual support">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)#Replacement_character" title="Specials (Unicode block)">question marks, boxes, or other symbols</a> instead of Cherokee syllabics.</div></div> </div> <p>The <b>Cherokee</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/ɛr/: 'err' in 'merry'">ɛr</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/ɛr/: 'err' in 'merry'">ɛr</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel 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class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Cherokee.wav" title="File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Cherokee.wav">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee</a>: <span lang="chr">ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Cherokee-language romanization"><i lang="chr-Latn">Aniyvwiyaʔi / Anigiduwagi</i></span>, or <span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏣᎳᎩ</span></span>, <span title="Cherokee-language romanization"><i lang="chr-Latn">Tsalagi</i></span>) people are one of the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Southeastern_Woodlands" title="Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands">Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands</a> of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, southeastern <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, southwestern Virginia, edges of western <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, northern <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> and northeastern <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> consisting of around 40,000 square miles.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee language</a> is part of the <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian_languages" title="Iroquoian languages">Iroquoian language</a> group. In the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/James_Mooney" title="James Mooney">James Mooney</a>, an early American <a href="/wiki/Ethnography" title="Ethnography">ethnographer</a>, recorded one oral tradition that told of the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_(Native_American)" title="Tribe (Native American)">tribe</a> having migrated south in ancient times from the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a> region, where other <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian_Peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquoian Peoples">Iroquoian</a> peoples have been based.<sup id="cite_ref-Mooney_1900_393_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mooney_1900_393-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, anthropologist Thomas R. Whyte, writing in 2007, dated the split among the peoples as occurring earlier. He believes that the origin of the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Iroquoian_language" title="Proto-Iroquoian language">proto-Iroquoian language</a> was likely the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Appalachian region">Appalachian region</a>, and the split between Northern and Southern Iroquoian languages began 4,000 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 19th century, White American <a href="/wiki/American_pioneer" title="American pioneer">settlers</a> had classified the Cherokee of the Southeast as one of the "<a href="/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes" title="Five Civilized Tribes">Five Civilized Tribes</a>" in the region. They were <a href="/wiki/Agrarianism" title="Agrarianism">agrarian</a>, lived in permanent villages and had begun to adopt some cultural and technological practices of the <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">white</a> settlers. They also developed their own writing system. </p><p>Today, three Cherokee tribes are <a href="/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of federally recognized tribes">federally recognized</a>: the <a href="/wiki/United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians">United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians</a> (UKB) in Oklahoma, the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> (CN) in Oklahoma, and the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a> (EBCI) in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 tribal citizens, making it the largest of the 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Census_2002_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census_2002-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, numerous <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_heritage_groups" title="Cherokee heritage groups">groups claim Cherokee lineage</a>, and some of these are state-recognized. A total of more than 819,000 people are estimated to have identified as having Cherokee ancestry on the U.S. census; most are not enrolled citizens of any tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-slate.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slate.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee Nation and the UKB have headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma" title="Tahlequah, Oklahoma">Tahlequah, Oklahoma</a>, and most of their citizens live in the state. The UKB are mostly descendants of "Old Settlers", also called Western Cherokee: those who migrated from the Southeast to <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> and Oklahoma in about 1817, prior to <a href="/wiki/Indian_removal" title="Indian removal">Indian removal</a>. They are related to the Cherokee who were later <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_removal" title="Cherokee removal">forcibly relocated</a> there in the 1830s under the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act" title="Indian Removal Act">Indian Removal Act</a>. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is located on land known as the <a href="/wiki/Qualla_Boundary" title="Qualla Boundary">Qualla Boundary</a> in western North Carolina. They are mostly descendants of ancestors who had resisted or avoided relocation, remaining in the area. Because they gave up tribal citizenship at the time, they became state and US citizens. In the late 19th century, they reorganized as a federally recognized tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Cherokee-language name for Cherokee people is <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr-Latn">Aniyvwiya</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ</span></span>, translating as <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Principal People</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another endonym is <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr-Latn">Anigiduwagi</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ</span></span>, translating as <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">People from Kituwah</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr-Latn">Tsalagi Gawonihisdi</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ</span></span>) is the Cherokee name for the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ethnologue17_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnologue17-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many theories, though all unproven, abound about the <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">origin of the name</a> <i>Cherokee</i>. It may have originally been derived from one of the competitive tribes in the area. </p><p>The earliest Spanish transliteration of the name, from 1755, is recorded as <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Tchalaque</i></span>, but it dates to accounts related to the <a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto" title="Hernando de Soto">Hernando de Soto</a> expedition in the mid-16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another theory is that <i>Cherokee</i> derives from the <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek">Lower Creek</a> word <span title="Creek-language text"><i lang="mus">Cvlakke</i></span> ("chuh-log-gee"), as the Creek were also in this mountainous region.<sup id="cite_ref-M&M_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M&M-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> Five Nations, historically based in New York and Pennsylvania, called the Cherokee <span title="Iroquoian languages collective text"><i lang="iro">Oyata'ge'ronoñ</i></span> (<span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">inhabitants of the cave country</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is possible the word <i>Cherokee</i> comes from a <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_language" title="Muscogee language">Muscogee</a> Creek word meaning <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">people of different speech</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>, because the two peoples spoke different languages.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jack Kilpatrick disputes this idea, noting that he believes the name come from the Cherokee word <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr-Latn">tsàdlagí</i></span> meaning <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">he has turned aside</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg/500px-Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg/750px-Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg/1000px-Smoky_Mtn_View.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="381" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains" title="Great Smoky Mountains">Great Smoky Mountains</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Anthropologists and historians have two main theories of Cherokee origins. One is that the Cherokee, an Iroquoian-speaking people, migrated to Southern <a href="/wiki/Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachia</a> from northern areas around the Great Lakes in <span class="clarify-content" style="padding-left:0.1em; padding-right:0.1em; color:var(--color-subtle, #54595d); border:1px solid var(--border-color-subtle, #c8ccd1);">late prehistoric times.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Clarify" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What is "late prehistoric" in this context? A date range is essential. (January 2025)">clarify</span></a></i>]</sup> The area became territory of the <i><a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a></i> (also known as the "<i>Haudenosaunee</i>") nations and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples of the Southeast such as the <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_people" title="Tuscarora people">Tuscarora people</a> of the Carolinas, and the <a href="/wiki/Meherrin" title="Meherrin">Meherrin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottaway" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottaway">Nottaway</a> of Virginia. The other theory is that the Cherokee had been in the Southeast for thousands of years and that proto-Iroquoian developed there instead of in the north. </p><p>Supporting the first theory are recorded conversations of Cherokee elders made by ethnographer <a href="/wiki/James_Mooney" title="James Mooney">James Mooney</a> in the late 19th century, who recounted an oral tradition of their people migrating south from the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a> region in ancient times.<sup id="cite_ref-Mooney_1900_393_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mooney_1900_393-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They occupied territories where earthwork <a href="/wiki/Platform_mounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Platform mounds">platform mounds</a> were built by peoples during the earlier Woodland period. </p><p>The people of the <a href="/wiki/Woodland_period#Middle_Woodland_period_(200_BCE_–_500_CE)" title="Woodland period">Middle Woodland period</a> are believed to be ancestors of the historic Cherokee and occupied what is now <a href="/wiki/Western_North_Carolina" title="Western North Carolina">Western North Carolina</a>, circa 200 to 600 CE. They are believed to have built what is called the <a href="/wiki/Biltmore_Mound" title="Biltmore Mound">Biltmore Mound</a>, found in 1984 south of the <a href="/wiki/Swannanoa_River" title="Swannanoa River">Swannanoa River</a> on the Biltmore Estate, which has numerous Native American sites.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other ancestors of the Cherokee are considered to be part of the later <a href="/wiki/Pisgah_phase" title="Pisgah phase">Pisgah phase</a> of <a href="/wiki/South_Appalachian_Mississippian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="South Appalachian Mississippian culture">South Appalachian Mississippian culture</a>, a regional variation of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian culture</a> that arose circa 1000 and lasted to 1500 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a consensus among most specialists in Southeast archeology and anthropology about these dates. But Finger says that ancestors of the Cherokee people lived in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee for a far longer period of time.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additional mounds were built by peoples during this cultural phase. Typically in this region, towns had a single <a href="/wiki/Platform_mound" title="Platform mound">platform mound</a> and served as a political center for smaller villages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_homelands">The homelands</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The homelands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cherokee occupied numerous towns throughout the river valleys and mountain ridges of their homelands. What were called the Lower towns were found in what is present-day western <a href="/wiki/Oconee_County,_South_Carolina" title="Oconee County, South Carolina">Oconee County, South Carolina</a>, along the <a href="/wiki/Keowee_River" title="Keowee River">Keowee River</a> (called the Savannah River in its lower portion). The principal town of the Lower Towns was <a href="/wiki/Keowee" title="Keowee">Keowee</a>. Other Cherokee towns on the Keowee River included Estatoe and Sugartown (<i>Kulsetsiyi</i>), a name repeated in other areas. </p><p>In western North Carolina, what were known as the Valley, Middle, and Outer Towns were located along the major rivers of the <a href="/wiki/Tuckasegee_River" title="Tuckasegee River">Tuckasegee</a>, the upper <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiwassee_River" title="Hiwassee River">Hiwasee</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Broad_River" title="French Broad River">French Broad</a> and other systems. The <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a> occupied towns along the lower Little Tennessee River and upper Tennessee River on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains, in present-day southeastern Tennessee. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the late <a href="/wiki/Archaic_period_in_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaic period in the Americas">Archaic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Woodland_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodland Period">Woodland Period</a>, Native Americans in the region began to cultivate plants such as <a href="/wiki/Iva_annua" title="Iva annua">marsh elder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chenopodium_berlandieri" title="Chenopodium berlandieri">lambsquarters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amaranthus_palmeri" title="Amaranthus palmeri">pigweed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helianthus_annuus" class="mw-redirect" title="Helianthus annuus">sunflowers</a>, and some native <a href="/wiki/Squash_(plant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Squash (plant)">squash</a>. People created new art forms such as <a href="/wiki/Shell_gorget" title="Shell gorget">shell gorgets</a>, adopted new technologies, and developed an elaborate cycle of religious ceremonies. </p><p>During the Mississippian culture-period (1000 to 1500 CE in the regional variation known as the <a href="/wiki/South_Appalachian_Mississippian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="South Appalachian Mississippian culture">South Appalachian Mississippian culture</a>), local women developed a new variety of maize (corn) called eastern <a href="/wiki/Flint_corn" title="Flint corn">flint corn</a>. It closely resembled modern corn and produced larger crops. The successful cultivation of corn surpluses allowed the rise of larger, more complex <a href="/wiki/Chiefdom" title="Chiefdom">chiefdoms</a> consisting of several villages and concentrated populations during this period. Corn became celebrated among numerous peoples in religious ceremonies, especially the <a href="/wiki/Green_Corn_Ceremony" title="Green Corn Ceremony">Green Corn Ceremony</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_culture">Early culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much of what is known about pre-18th century Native American cultures has come from records of Spanish expeditions. The earliest ones of the mid-16th century encountered peoples of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian culture</a> era, who were ancestral to tribes that emerged in the Southeast, such as the Cherokee, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheraw" title="Cheraw">Cheraw</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Catawba_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Catawba (tribe)">Catawba</a>. Specifically in 1540–41, a Spanish expedition led by <a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto" title="Hernando de Soto">Hernando de Soto</a> passed through present-day South Carolina, proceeding into western North Carolina and what is considered Cherokee country. The Spanish recorded a <i>Chalaque</i><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> people as living around the <a href="/wiki/Keowee_River" title="Keowee River">Keowee River</a>, where western North Carolina, South Carolina, and northeastern Georgia meet. The Cherokee consider this area to be part of their homelands, which also extended into southeastern Tennessee.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further west, De Soto's expedition visited villages in present-day northwestern Georgia, recording them as ruled at the time by the <a href="/wiki/Coosa_chiefdom" title="Coosa chiefdom">Coosa chiefdom</a>. This is believed to be a chiefdom ancestral to the <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek people">Muscogee Creek people</a>, who developed as a Muskogean-speaking people with a distinct culture.<sup id="cite_ref-NGE_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGE-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1566, the <a href="/wiki/Juan_Pardo_(explorer)" title="Juan Pardo (explorer)">Juan Pardo</a> expedition traveled from the present-day South Carolina coast into its interior, and into western North Carolina and southeastern Tennessee. He recorded meeting Cherokee-speaking people who visited him while he stayed at the <a href="/wiki/Joara" title="Joara">Joara</a> chiefdom (north of present-day <a href="/wiki/Morganton,_North_Carolina" title="Morganton, North Carolina">Morganton, North Carolina</a>). The historic Catawba later lived in this area of the upper Catawba River. Pardo and his forces wintered over at Joara, building Fort San Juan there in 1567. </p><p>His expedition proceeded into the interior, noting villages near modern <a href="/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" title="Asheville, North Carolina">Asheville</a> and other places that are part of the Cherokee homelands. According to anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Charles_M._Hudson" title="Charles M. Hudson">Charles M. Hudson</a>, the Pardo expedition also recorded encounters with <a href="/wiki/Muskogean_languages" title="Muskogean languages">Muskogean</a>-speaking peoples at <a href="/wiki/Chiaha" title="Chiaha">Chiaha</a> in southeastern modern Tennessee. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Linguistic_studies">Linguistic studies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Linguistic studies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Linguistic studies have been another way for researchers to study the development of people and their cultures. Unlike most other Native American tribes in the American Southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee and <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_people" title="Tuscarora people">Tuscarora people</a> spoke <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian_languages" title="Iroquoian languages">Iroquoian languages</a>. Since the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a> region was the territory of most Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that both the Cherokee and Tuscarora migrated south from that region. The Cherokee <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral history tradition</a> supports their migration from the Great Lakes. </p><p>Linguistic analysis shows a relatively large difference between Cherokee and the northern Iroquoian languages, suggesting they had migrated long ago. Scholars posit a split between the groups in the distant past, perhaps 3,500–3,800 years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-mooney_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mooney-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Glottochronology" title="Glottochronology">Glottochronology</a> studies suggest the split occurred between about 1500 and 1800 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee say that the ancient settlement of <i><a href="/wiki/Kituwa" title="Kituwa">Kituwa</a></i> on the <a href="/wiki/Tuckasegee_River" title="Tuckasegee River">Tuckasegee River</a> is their original settlement in the Southeast.<sup id="cite_ref-mooney_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mooney-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was formerly adjacent to and is now part of <a href="/wiki/Qualla_Boundary" title="Qualla Boundary">Qualla Boundary</a> (the base of the federally recognized <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a>) in North Carolina. </p><p>According to Thomas Whyte, who posits that proto-Iroquoian developed in Appalachia, the Cherokee and <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_people" title="Tuscarora people">Tuscarora</a> broke off in the Southeast from the major group of Iroquoian speakers who migrated north to the Great Lakes area. There a succession of Iroquoian-speaking tribes were encountered by Europeans in historic times. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_sources_of_early_Cherokee_history">Other sources of early Cherokee history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other sources of early Cherokee history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1830s, the American writer <a href="/wiki/John_Howard_Payne" title="John Howard Payne">John Howard Payne</a> visited Cherokee then based in Georgia. He recounted what they shared about pre-19th-century Cherokee culture and society. For instance, the Payne papers describe the account by Cherokee elders of a traditional two-part societal structure. A "white" organization of elders represented the seven <a href="/wiki/Clan" title="Clan">clans</a>. As Payne recounted, this group, which was <a href="/wiki/Inheritance" title="Inheritance">hereditary</a> and priestly, was responsible for religious activities, such as healing, purification, and prayer. A second group of younger men, the "red" organization, was responsible for warfare. The Cherokee considered warfare a polluting activity.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Researchers have debated the reasons for the change. Some historians believe the decline in priestly power originated with a revolt by the Cherokee against the abuses of the priestly class known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Ani-kutani" title="Ani-kutani">Ani-kutani</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Irwina-1992_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irwina-1992-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ethnography" title="Ethnography">Ethnographer</a> <a href="/wiki/James_Mooney" title="James Mooney">James Mooney</a>, who studied and talked with the Cherokee in the late 1880s, was the first to trace the decline of the former hierarchy to this revolt.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time that Mooney was studying the people in the late 1880s, the structure of Cherokee religious practitioners was more informal, based more on individual knowledge and ability than upon heredity.<sup id="cite_ref-Irwina-1992_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irwina-1992-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another major source of early cultural history comes from materials written in the 19th century by the <i>didanvwisgi</i> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏗᏓᏅᏫᏍᎩ</span></span>), Cherokee <a href="/wiki/Medicine_man" title="Medicine man">medicine men</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a>'s creation of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a> in the 1820s. Initially only the <i>didanvwisgi</i> learned to write and read such materials, which were considered extremely powerful in a spiritual sense.<sup id="cite_ref-Irwina-1992_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irwina-1992-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, the syllabary and writings were widely adopted by the Cherokee people. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_history" title="Cherokee history">Cherokee history</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century:_English_contact">17th century: English contact</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 17th century: English contact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1657, there was a disturbance in <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Colony">Virginia Colony</a> as the <i>Rechahecrians</i> or <i>Rickahockans</i>, as well as the Siouan <i><a href="/wiki/Manahoac" title="Manahoac">Manahoac</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Nahyssan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nahyssan">Nahyssan</a></i>, broke through the frontier and settled near the Falls of the James River, near present-day <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>. The following year, a combined force of English colonists and <a href="/wiki/Pamunkey" title="Pamunkey">Pamunkey</a> drove the newcomers away. The identity of the <i>Rechahecrians</i> has been much debated. Historians noted the name closely resembled that recorded for the <i>Eriechronon</i> or <i>Erielhonan</i>, commonly known as the <a href="/wiki/Erie_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Erie tribe">Erie tribe</a>, another Iroquoian-speaking people based south of the Great Lakes in present-day northern Pennsylvania.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This Iroquoian people had been driven away from the southern shore of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Erie" title="Lake Erie">Lake Erie</a> in 1654 by the powerful <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> Five Nations, also known as <i><a href="/wiki/Haudenosaunee" class="mw-redirect" title="Haudenosaunee">Haudenosaunee</a></i>, who were seeking more hunting grounds to support their dominance in the beaver fur trade. The <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologist</a> Martin Smith theorized some remnants of the tribe migrated to Virginia after the wars (<a href="#refSmith1987">1986:131–32</a>), later becoming known as the <a href="/wiki/Westo" title="Westo">Westo</a> to English colonists in the Province of Carolina. A few historians suggest this tribe was Cherokee.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Virginian traders developed a small-scale trading system with the Cherokee in the Piedmont before the end of the 17th century. The earliest recorded Virginia trader to live among the Cherokee was Cornelius Dougherty or Dority, in 1690.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg/280px-Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg/420px-Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg/560px-Indians_NW_of_South_Carolina.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1770" data-file-height="1217" /></a><figcaption>An annotated copy of a hand-painted <a href="/wiki/Catawba_people" title="Catawba people">Catawba</a> <a href="/wiki/Deerskin" class="mw-redirect" title="Deerskin">deerskin</a> map of the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Southeastern_Woodlands" title="Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands">tribes</a> between <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a> (<i>left</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Virginia">Virginia</a> (<i>right</i>) following the displacements of a century of <a href="/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Depopulation_from_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas">disease</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas">enslavement</a> and the 1715–7 <a href="/wiki/Yamasee_War" title="Yamasee War">Yamasee War</a>. The Cherokee are labelled as "Cherrikies".</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_military_history" title="Cherokee military history">Cherokee military history</a></div> <p>The Cherokee gave sanctuary to a band of <a href="/wiki/Shawnee" title="Shawnee">Shawnee</a> in the 1660s. But from 1710 to 1715, the Cherokee and <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a> allied with the British, and fought the Shawnee, who were allied with French colonists, forcing the Shawnee to move northward.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Cherokee fought with the <a href="/wiki/Yamasee" title="Yamasee">Yamasee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catawba_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Catawba (tribe)">Catawba</a>, and British in late 1712 and early 1713 against the <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_people" title="Tuscarora people">Tuscarora</a> in the Second <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_War" title="Tuscarora War">Tuscarora War</a>. The Tuscarora War marked the beginning of a British-Cherokee relationship that, despite breaking down on occasion, remained strong for much of the 18th century. With the growth of the <a href="/wiki/Deerskin_trade" title="Deerskin trade">deerskin trade</a>, the Cherokee were considered valuable trading partners, since deer skins from the cooler country of their mountain hunting-grounds were of better quality than those supplied by the lowland coastal tribes, who were neighbors of the English colonists. </p><p>In January 1716, Cherokee murdered a delegation of <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek">Muscogee Creek</a> leaders at the town of <a href="/wiki/Tugaloo_(Cherokee_town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tugaloo (Cherokee town)">Tugaloo</a>, marking their entry into the <a href="/wiki/Yamasee_War" title="Yamasee War">Yamasee War</a>. It ended in 1717 with peace treaties between the colony of <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> and the Creek. Hostility and sporadic raids between the Cherokee and Creek continued for decades.<sup id="cite_ref-oatis_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oatis-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These raids came to a head at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Taliwa" title="Battle of Taliwa">Battle of Taliwa</a> in 1755, at present-day <a href="/wiki/Ball_Ground,_Georgia" title="Ball Ground, Georgia">Ball Ground, Georgia</a>, with the defeat of the Muscogee. </p><p>In 1721, the Cherokee ceded lands in South Carolina. In 1730, at <a href="/wiki/Nikwasi" title="Nikwasi">Nikwasi</a>, a Cherokee town and Mississippian culture site, a Scots adventurer, Sir <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cuming" title="Alexander Cuming">Alexander Cuming</a>, crowned <a href="/wiki/Moytoy_of_Tellico" title="Moytoy of Tellico">Moytoy of Tellico</a> as "Emperor" of the Cherokee. Moytoy agreed to recognize King <a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" title="George II of Great Britain">George II of Great Britain</a> as the Cherokee protector. Cuming arranged to take seven prominent Cherokee, including <i><a href="/wiki/Attakullakulla" title="Attakullakulla">Attakullakulla</a></i>, to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England. There the Cherokee delegation signed the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_treaties" title="Cherokee treaties">Treaty of Whitehall</a> with the British. Moytoy's son, <a href="/wiki/Amouskositte" title="Amouskositte">Amo-sgasite</a> (Dreadful Water), attempted to succeed him as "Emperor" in 1741, but the Cherokee elected their own leader, <a href="/wiki/Conocotocko_I" title="Conocotocko I">Conocotocko</a> (Old Hop) of <a href="/wiki/Chota_(Cherokee_town)" title="Chota (Cherokee town)">Chota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ecc_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ecc-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Political power among the Cherokee remained decentralized, and towns acted autonomously. In 1735, the Cherokee were said to have sixty-four towns and villages, with an estimated fighting force of 6,000 men.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1738 and 1739, <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> epidemics broke out among the Cherokee, who had no natural immunity to the new infectious disease. Nearly half their population died within a year. Hundreds of other Cherokee committed <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> due to their losses and disfigurement from the disease. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_Cherokee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Three_Cherokee.jpg/260px-Three_Cherokee.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Three_Cherokee.jpg/390px-Three_Cherokee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Three_Cherokee.jpg/520px-Three_Cherokee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1531" /></a><figcaption>After the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Cherokee_War" title="Anglo-Cherokee War">Anglo-Cherokee War</a>, bitterness remained between the two groups. In 1765, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Timberlake" title="Henry Timberlake">Henry Timberlake</a> took three Cherokee chiefs to London meet the Crown and help strengthen the newly declared peace.</figcaption></figure> <p>British colonial officer <a href="/wiki/Henry_Timberlake" title="Henry Timberlake">Henry Timberlake</a>, born in Virginia, described the Cherokee people as he saw them in 1761: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Cherokees are of a middle stature, of an olive colour, tho' generally painted, and their skins stained with gun-powder, pricked into it in very pretty figures. The hair of their head is shaved, tho' many of the old people have it plucked out by the roots, except a patch on the hinder part of the head, about twice the bigness of a crown-piece, which is ornamented with beads, feathers, <a href="/wiki/Wampum" title="Wampum">wampum</a>, stained deer hair, and such like baubles. The ears are slit and stretched to an enormous size, putting the person who undergoes the operation to incredible pain, being unable to lie on either side for nearly forty days. To remedy this, they generally slit but one at a time; so soon as the patient can bear it, they wound round with wire to expand them, and are adorned with silver pendants and rings, which they likewise wear at the nose. This custom does not belong originally to the Cherokees, but taken by them from the Shawnese, or other northern nations. They that can afford it wear a collar of wampum, which are beads cut out of clam-shells, a silver breast-plate, and bracelets on their arms and wrists of the same metal, a bit of cloth over their private parts, a shirt of the English make, a sort of cloth-boots, and <a href="/wiki/Moccasins" class="mw-redirect" title="Moccasins">mockasons</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a>), which are shoes of a make peculiar to the Americans, ornamented with porcupine-quills; a large mantle or match-coat thrown over all complete their dress at home ...<sup id="cite_ref-Timberlake_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timberlake-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>From 1753 to 1755, battles broke out between the Cherokee and Muscogee over disputed hunting grounds in <a href="/wiki/North_Georgia" title="North Georgia">North Georgia</a>. The Cherokee were victorious in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Taliwa" title="Battle of Taliwa">Battle of Taliwa</a>. British soldiers built forts in Cherokee country to defend against the French in the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>, which was fought across Europe and was called the <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" title="French and Indian War">French and Indian War</a> on the North American front. These included <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_(Tennessee)" title="Fort Loudoun (Tennessee)">Fort Loudoun</a> near Chota on the Tennessee River in eastern Tennessee. Serious misunderstandings arose quickly between the two allies, resulting in the 1760 <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Cherokee_War" title="Anglo-Cherokee War">Anglo-Cherokee War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rozema,_pp._17–23_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rozema,_pp._17–23-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>King George III's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763" title="Royal Proclamation of 1763">Royal Proclamation of 1763</a> forbade British settlements west of the Appalachian crest, as his government tried to afford some protection from colonial encroachment to the Cherokee and other tribes they depended on as allies. The Crown found the ruling difficult to enforce with colonists.<sup id="cite_ref-Rozema,_pp._17–23_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rozema,_pp._17–23-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1771 to 1772, North Carolinian settlers squatted on Cherokee lands in Tennessee, forming the <a href="/wiki/Watauga_Association" title="Watauga Association">Watauga Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Boone" title="Daniel Boone">Daniel Boone</a> and his party tried to settle in Kentucky, but the Shawnee, <a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Delaware</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mingo" title="Mingo">Mingo</a>, and some Cherokee attacked a scouting and forage party that included Boone's son, James Boone, and <a href="/wiki/William_Russell_(Virginia_politician)" title="William Russell (Virginia politician)">William Russell</a>'s son, Henry, who were killed in the skirmish.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFaragher1992" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Mack_Faragher" title="John Mack Faragher">Faragher, John Mack</a> (1992). <i>Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer</i>. New York: Holt. pp. <span class="nowrap">93–</span>4. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8050-1603-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8050-1603-1"><bdi>0-8050-1603-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Daniel+Boone%3A+The+Life+and+Legend+of+an+American+Pioneer&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E93-%3C%2Fspan%3E4&rft.pub=Holt&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-8050-1603-1&rft.aulast=Faragher&rft.aufirst=John+Mack&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span> </p><p>In 1776, allied with the Shawnee led by <a href="/wiki/Cornstalk_(Shawnee_leader)" title="Cornstalk (Shawnee leader)">Cornstalk</a>, Cherokee attacked settlers in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina in the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars#The_Second_Cherokee_War" title="Cherokee–American wars">Second Cherokee War</a>. <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a> <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Ward" title="Nancy Ward">Nancy Ward</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dragging_Canoe" title="Dragging Canoe">Dragging Canoe</a>'s cousin, warned settlers of impending attacks. Provincial militias retaliated, destroying more than 50 Cherokee towns. North Carolina militia in 1776 and 1780 invaded and destroyed the <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill towns</a> in what is now Tennessee. In 1777, surviving Cherokee town leaders signed treaties with the new states. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dragging_Canoe" title="Dragging Canoe">Dragging Canoe</a> and his band settled along <a href="/wiki/Chickamauga_Creek" title="Chickamauga Creek">Chickamauga Creek</a> near present-day <a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, where they established 11 new towns. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chickamauga_Town&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chickamauga Town (page does not exist)">Chickamauga Town</a> was his headquarters and the colonists tended to call his entire band the <a href="/wiki/Chickamauga_Cherokee" title="Chickamauga Cherokee">Chickamauga</a> to distinguish them from other Cherokee. From here he fought a <a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">guerrilla war</a> against settlers, which lasted from 1776 to 1794. These are known informally as the Cherokee–American wars, but this is not a historian's term. </p><p>The first Treaty of <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Blockhouse" title="Tellico Blockhouse">Tellico Blockhouse</a>, signed November 7, 1794, finally brought peace between the Cherokee and Americans, who had achieved independence from the British Crown. In 1805, the Cherokee ceded their lands between the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_River" title="Cumberland River">Cumberland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duck_River_(Tennessee)" title="Duck River (Tennessee)">Duck rivers</a> (i.e. the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Plateau" title="Cumberland Plateau">Cumberland Plateau</a>) to <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scots_(and_other_Europeans)_among_the_Cherokee_in_the_18th_century"><span id="Scots_.28and_other_Europeans.29_among_the_Cherokee_in_the_18th_century"></span>Scots (and other Europeans) among the Cherokee in the 18th century</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Scots (and other Europeans) among the Cherokee in the 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The traders and British government agents dealing with the southern tribes in general, and the Cherokee in particular, were nearly all of Scottish ancestry, with many documented as being from the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands">Highlands</a>. A few were Scotch-Irish, English, French, and German (see <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Indian_trade" title="Scottish Indian trade">Scottish Indian trade</a>). Many of these men married women from their host peoples and remained after the fighting had ended. Some of their <a href="/wiki/Mixed-race" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-race">mixed-race</a> children, who were raised in Native American cultures, later became significant leaders among the <a href="/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes" title="Five Civilized Tribes">Five Civilized Tribes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Mather_Brown_-_Portrait_of_Major_John_Norton_as_Mohawk_Chief_Teyoninhokarawen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5455" data-file-height="6595" /></a><figcaption><i>Portrait of Major <a href="/wiki/John_Norton_(Mohawk_chief)" title="John Norton (Mohawk chief)">John Norton (Mohawk chief)</a> as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen</i> by <a href="/wiki/Mather_Brown" title="Mather Brown">Mather Brown</a>, ca. 1805. <a href="/wiki/Yale_Center_for_British_Art" title="Yale Center for British Art">Yale Center for British Art</a> (his father was a Cherokee while John Norton adopted by the Mohawks)</figcaption></figure> <p>Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_(loyalist)" title="John Stuart (loyalist)">John Stuart</a>, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann (father of <a href="/wiki/James_Vann" title="James Vann">James Vann</a>), Daniel Ross (father of <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a>), John Walker Sr., Mark Winthrop Battle, John McLemore (father of Bob), William Buchanan, John Watts (father of <a href="/wiki/John_Watts_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Watts (Cherokee chief)">John Watts Jr.</a>), <a href="/wiki/Chisholm_Tavern_(Knoxville)" title="Chisholm Tavern (Knoxville)">John D. Chisholm</a>, John Benge (father of <a href="/wiki/Bob_Benge" title="Bob Benge">Bob Benge</a>), Thomas Brown, <a href="/wiki/John_Rogers_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Rogers (Cherokee chief)">John Rogers</a> (Welsh), John Gunter (German, founder of Gunter's Landing), <a href="/wiki/James_Adair_(historian)" title="James Adair (historian)">James Adair</a> (Irish), William Thorpe (English), and Peter Hildebrand (German), among many others. Some attained the honorary status of minor chiefs and/or members of significant delegations. </p><p>By contrast, a large portion of the settlers encroaching on the Native American territories were <a href="/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans" title="Scotch-Irish Americans">Scotch-Irish</a>, Irish from <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> who were of Scottish descent and had been part of the <a href="/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland" title="Plantations of Ireland">plantation of Ulster</a>. They also tended to support the Revolution. But in the back country, there were also Scotch-Irish who were Loyalists, such as <a href="/wiki/Simon_Girty" title="Simon Girty">Simon Girty</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Acculturation">Acculturation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Acculturation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cherokee lands between the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chattahoochee_River" title="Chattahoochee River">Chattahoochee</a> rivers were remote enough from white settlers to remain independent after the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">Cherokee–American wars</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Deerskin_trade" title="Deerskin trade">deerskin trade</a> was no longer feasible on their greatly reduced lands, and over the next several decades, the people of the fledgling <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee Nation (19th century)">Cherokee Nation</a> began to build a new society modeled on the white Southern United States. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Major_ridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Major_ridge.jpg/170px-Major_ridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Major_ridge.jpg/255px-Major_ridge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Major_ridge.jpg/340px-Major_ridge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3608" data-file-height="4066" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Major Ridge in 1834, from <i><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Indian_Tribes_of_North_America" title="History of the Indian Tribes of North America">History of the Indian Tribes of North America</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> sought to 'civilize' Southeastern American Indians, through programs overseen by the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Agent">Indian Agent</a> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Hawkins" title="Benjamin Hawkins">Benjamin Hawkins</a>. He encouraged the Cherokee to abandon their communal land-tenure and settle on individual farmsteads, which was facilitated by the destruction of many American Indian towns during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Deerskin_trade" title="Deerskin trade">deerskin trade</a> brought <a href="/wiki/White-tailed_deer" title="White-tailed deer">white-tailed deer</a> to the brink of extinction, and as pigs and cattle were introduced, they became the principal sources of meat. The government supplied the tribes with <a href="/wiki/Spinning_wheel" title="Spinning wheel">spinning wheels</a> and cotton-seed, and men were taught to fence and plow the land, in contrast to their traditional division in which crop cultivation was woman's labor. Americans instructed the women in weaving. Eventually, Hawkins helped them set up smithies, gristmills and cotton plantations. </p><p>The Cherokee organized a national government under Principal Chiefs <a href="/wiki/Little_Turkey" title="Little Turkey">Little Turkey</a> (1788–1801), <a href="/wiki/Black_Fox_(Cherokee_chief)" title="Black Fox (Cherokee chief)">Black Fox</a> (1801–1811), and <a href="/wiki/Pathkiller" title="Pathkiller">Pathkiller</a> (1811–1827), all former warriors of <a href="/wiki/Dragging_Canoe" title="Dragging Canoe">Dragging Canoe</a>. The 'Cherokee triumvirate' of <a href="/wiki/James_Vann" title="James Vann">James Vann</a> and his protégés <a href="/wiki/Major_Ridge" title="Major Ridge">The Ridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Hicks" title="Charles R. Hicks">Charles R. Hicks</a> advocated acculturation, formal education, and modern methods of farming. In 1801 they invited <a href="/wiki/Moravian_Church" title="Moravian Church">Moravian</a> missionaries from <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> to teach <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> and the 'arts of civilized life.' The Moravians and later <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist">Congregationalist</a> missionaries ran boarding schools, and a select few students were educated at the <a href="/wiki/American_Board_of_Commissioners_for_Foreign_Missions" title="American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions">American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions</a> school in <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>. </p><p>In 1806 a <a href="/wiki/Federal_Road_(Cherokee_lands)" title="Federal Road (Cherokee lands)">Federal Road</a> from <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah, Georgia</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville, Tennessee</a>, was built through Cherokee land. Chief <a href="/wiki/James_Vann" title="James Vann">James Vann</a> opened a tavern, inn and ferry across the <a href="/wiki/Chattahoochee_River" title="Chattahoochee River">Chattahoochee</a> and built a <a href="/wiki/Chief_Vann_House_Historic_Site" title="Chief Vann House Historic Site">cotton-plantation</a> on a spur of the road from <a href="/wiki/Athens,_Georgia" title="Athens, Georgia">Athens, Georgia</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Nashville" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville">Nashville</a>. His son <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Vann" title="Joseph Vann">'Rich Joe' Vann</a> developed the plantation to 800 acres (3.2 km<sup>2</sup>), cultivated by 150 slaves. He exported cotton to England, and owned a <a href="/wiki/Steamboat" title="Steamboat">steamboat</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Cherokee allied with the U.S. against the nativist and pro-British <a href="/wiki/Red_Stick" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Stick">Red Stick</a> faction of the Upper Creek in the <a href="/wiki/Creek_War" title="Creek War">Creek War</a> during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>. Cherokee warriors led by <a href="/wiki/Major_Ridge" title="Major Ridge">Major Ridge</a> played a major role in General <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a>'s victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Horseshoe_Bend_(1814)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)">Battle of Horseshoe Bend</a>. Major Ridge moved his family to <a href="/wiki/Rome,_Georgia" title="Rome, Georgia">Rome, Georgia</a>, where he built a <a href="/wiki/Chieftains_(Rome,_Georgia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chieftains (Rome, Georgia)">substantial house</a>, developed a large plantation and ran a ferry on the <a href="/wiki/Oostanaula_River" title="Oostanaula River">Oostanaula River</a>. Although he never learned English, he sent his son and nephews to New England to be educated in mission schools. His interpreter and protégé Chief <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a>, the descendant of several generations of Cherokee women and Scots fur-traders, built a plantation and operated a trading firm and a ferry at Ross' Landing (<a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>). During this period, divisions arose between the acculturated elite and the great majority of Cherokee, who clung to traditional ways of life. </p><p>Around 1809 <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a> began developing a written form of the Cherokee language. He spoke no English, but his experiences as a silversmith dealing regularly with white settlers, and as a warrior at Horseshoe Bend, convinced him the Cherokee needed to develop writing. In 1821, he introduced <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a>, the first written syllabic form of an American Indian language outside of <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_scripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesoamerican scripts">Central America</a>. Initially, his innovation was opposed by both Cherokee traditionalists and white missionaries, who sought to encourage the use of English. When Sequoyah taught children to read and write with the syllabary, he reached the adults. By the 1820s, the Cherokee had a higher rate of literacy than the whites around them in Georgia. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Echota.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/New_Echota.jpg/220px-New_Echota.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/New_Echota.jpg/330px-New_Echota.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/New_Echota.jpg/440px-New_Echota.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1712" /></a><figcaption>Cherokee National Council building, <a href="/wiki/New_Echota" title="New Echota">New Echota</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1819, the Cherokee began holding council meetings at New Town, at the headwaters of the <a href="/wiki/Oostanaula_River" title="Oostanaula River">Oostanaula</a> (near present-day <a href="/wiki/Calhoun,_Georgia" title="Calhoun, Georgia">Calhoun, Georgia</a>). In November 1825, New Town became the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and was renamed <a href="/wiki/New_Echota" title="New Echota">New Echota</a>, after the <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a> principal town of <a href="/wiki/Chota_(Cherokee_town)" title="Chota (Cherokee town)">Chota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sequoyah's syllabary was adopted. They had developed a police force, a judicial system, and a National Committee. </p><p>In 1827, the Cherokee Nation drafted a Constitution modeled on the United States, with executive, legislative and judicial branches and a system of checks and balances. The two-tiered legislature was led by Major Ridge and his son <a href="/wiki/John_Ridge" title="John Ridge">John Ridge</a>. Convinced the tribe's survival required English-speaking leaders who could negotiate with the U.S., the legislature appointed <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a> as Principal Chief. A printing press was established at New Echota by the <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a> missionary <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Worcester" title="Samuel Worcester">Samuel Worcester</a> and Major Ridge's nephew <a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)" title="Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)">Elias Boudinot</a>, who had taken the name of his <a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot" title="Elias Boudinot">white benefactor</a>, a leader of the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> Congressman. They translated the Bible into <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a>. Boudinot published the first edition of the bilingual '<a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix" title="Cherokee Phoenix">Cherokee Phoenix</a>,' the first American Indian newspaper, in February 1828.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Removal_era">Removal era</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Removal era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_Indian_Removal" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Jefferson and Indian Removal">Thomas Jefferson and Indian Removal</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tahchee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Tahchee.jpg/220px-Tahchee.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Tahchee.jpg/330px-Tahchee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Tahchee.jpg/440px-Tahchee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Tah-Chee (Dutch), A Cherokee Chief, 1837</figcaption></figure> <p>Before the final removal to present-day Oklahoma, many Cherokees relocated to present-day <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> and Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1775 and 1786 the Cherokee, along with people of other nations such as the <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a>, began voluntarily settling along the <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red Rivers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1802, the federal government promised to extinguish Indian titles to lands claimed by <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> in return for Georgia's cession of the western lands that became <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>. To convince the Cherokee to move voluntarily in 1815, the US government established a Cherokee Reservation in Arkansas.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reservation boundaries extended from north of the <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas River</a> to the southern bank of the <a href="/wiki/White_River_(Arkansas)" class="mw-redirect" title="White River (Arkansas)">White River</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Bowl_(Cherokee_chief)" title="The Bowl (Cherokee chief)">Di'wali</a> (The Bowl), <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a>, Spring Frog and Tatsi (Dutch) and their bands settled there. These Cherokees became known as "Old Settlers." </p><p>The Cherokee eventually migrated as far north as the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Bootheel" title="Missouri Bootheel">Missouri Bootheel</a> by 1816. They lived interspersed among the <a href="/wiki/Delaware_Nation" title="Delaware Nation">Delawares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shawnee" title="Shawnee">Shawnees</a> of that area.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee in <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Territory" title="Missouri Territory">Missouri Territory</a> increased rapidly in population, from 1,000 to 6,000 over the next year (1816–1817), according to reports by Governor <a href="/wiki/William_Clark_(explorer)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clark (explorer)">William Clark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Increased conflicts with the <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage Nation</a> led to the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Claremore_Mound" title="Battle of Claremore Mound">Battle of Claremore Mound</a> and the eventual establishment of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith,_Arkansas" title="Fort Smith, Arkansas">Fort Smith</a> between Cherokee and Osage communities.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Louis_(1825)" title="Treaty of St. Louis (1825)">Treaty of St. Louis (1825)</a>, the Osage were made to "cede and relinquish to the United States, all their right, title, interest, and claim, to lands lying within the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas<span class="nowrap"> </span>..." to make room for the Cherokee and the <i>Mashcoux</i>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek">Muscogee Creeks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As late as the winter of 1838, Cherokee and Creek living in the Missouri and Arkansas areas petitioned the War Department to remove the Osage from the area.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A group of Cherokee traditionalists led by <a href="/wiki/The_Bowl_(Cherokee_chief)" title="The Bowl (Cherokee chief)"><i>Di'wali</i></a> moved to <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Texas" title="Spanish Texas">Spanish Texas</a> in 1819. Settling near <a href="/wiki/Nacogdoches,_Texas" title="Nacogdoches, Texas">Nacogdoches</a>, they were welcomed by Mexican authorities as potential allies against Anglo-American colonists. The <a href="/wiki/Texas_Cherokees" title="Texas Cherokees">Texas Cherokees</a> were mostly neutral during the <a href="/wiki/Texas_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas War of Independence">Texas War of Independence</a>. In 1836, they signed a treaty with Texas President <a href="/wiki/Sam_Houston" title="Sam Houston">Sam Houston</a>, an adopted member of the Cherokee tribe. His successor <a href="/wiki/Mirabeau_Lamar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mirabeau Lamar">Mirabeau Lamar</a> sent militia to evict them in 1839. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Trail_of_Tears">Trail of Tears</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Trail of Tears"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Removal" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee Removal">Cherokee Removal</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chief_John_Ross.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chief_John_Ross.jpg/180px-Chief_John_Ross.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chief_John_Ross.jpg/270px-Chief_John_Ross.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chief_John_Ross.jpg/360px-Chief_John_Ross.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3968" data-file-height="4297" /></a><figcaption>Chief <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a>, c. 1840</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the War of 1812, and the concurrent <a href="/wiki/Red_Stick_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Stick War">Red Stick War</a>, the U.S. government persuaded several groups of Cherokee to a voluntary removal to the Arkansas Territory. These were the "<a href="/wiki/Old_Settlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Settlers">Old Settlers</a>", the first of the Cherokee to make their way to what would eventually become <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> (modern day <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>). This effort was headed by Indian Agent <a href="/wiki/Return_J._Meigs_Sr." title="Return J. Meigs Sr.">Return J. Meigs</a>, and was finalized with the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Jackson_and_McMinn_Treaty" title="Jackson and McMinn Treaty">Jackson and McMinn Treaty</a>, giving the Old Settlers undisputed title to the lands designated for their use.<sup id="cite_ref-Tenn_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tenn-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this time, Georgia focused on removing the Cherokee's neighbors, the <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_(Creek)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee (Creek)">Lower Creek</a>. Georgia Governor <a href="/wiki/George_Troup" title="George Troup">George Troup</a> and his cousin <a href="/wiki/William_McIntosh" title="William McIntosh">William McIntosh</a>, chief of the Lower Creek, signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Indian_Springs_(1825)" title="Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)">Treaty of Indian Springs</a> in 1825, ceding the last <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_(Creek)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee (Creek)">Muscogee (Creek)</a> lands claimed by Georgia. The state's northwestern border reached the <a href="/wiki/Chattahoochee_River" title="Chattahoochee River">Chattahoochee</a>, the border of the Cherokee Nation. In 1829, gold was discovered at <a href="/wiki/Dahlonega,_Georgia" title="Dahlonega, Georgia">Dahlonega</a>, on Cherokee land claimed by Georgia. The <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Gold_Rush" title="Georgia Gold Rush">Georgia Gold Rush</a> was the first in U.S. history, and state officials demanded that the federal government expel the Cherokee. When <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> was inaugurated as president in 1829, Georgia gained a strong ally in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>. In 1830 Congress passed the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act" title="Indian Removal Act">Indian Removal Act</a>, authorizing the forcible relocation of American Indians east of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a> to a new Indian Territory. </p><p>Jackson claimed the removal policy was an effort to prevent the Cherokee from facing extinction as a people, which he considered the fate that "...the <a href="/wiki/Mohegan" title="Mohegan">Mohegan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Narragansett tribe">Narragansett</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Delaware</a>" had suffered.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is, however, ample evidence that the Cherokee were adapting to modern farming techniques. A modern analysis shows that the area was in general in a state of economic surplus and could have accommodated both the Cherokee and new settlers.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Cherokee brought their grievances to a US judicial review that set a precedent in <a href="/wiki/Indian_country" title="Indian country">Indian country</a>. John Ross traveled to Washington, D.C., and won support from <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Party" title="National Republican Party">National Republican Party</a> leaders <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Henry Clay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Worcester" title="Samuel Worcester">Samuel Worcester</a> campaigned on behalf of the Cherokee in New England, where their cause was taken up by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Emerson%27s_letter_to_Martin_Van_Buren" title="Emerson's letter to Martin Van Buren">Emerson's 1838 letter to Martin Van Buren</a>). In June 1830, a delegation led by Chief Ross defended Cherokee rights before the U.S. Supreme Court in <i><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_v._Georgia" title="Cherokee Nation v. Georgia">Cherokee Nation v. Georgia</a></i>. </p><p>In 1831, Georgia militia arrested <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Worcester" title="Samuel Worcester">Samuel Worcester</a> for residing on Indian lands without a state permit, imprisoning him in <a href="/wiki/Milledgeville,_Georgia" title="Milledgeville, Georgia">Milledgeville</a>. In <i><a href="/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia" title="Worcester v. Georgia">Worcester v. Georgia</a></i> (1832), the US <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Justice">Chief Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Marshall" title="John Marshall">John Marshall</a> ruled that American Indian nations were "distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights," and entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments that infringed on their <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereignty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Worcester v. Georgia</i> is considered one of the most important dicta in law dealing with Native Americans. </p><p>Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's ruling, as he needed to conciliate Southern sectionalism during the era of the <a href="/wiki/Nullification_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nullification Crisis">Nullification Crisis</a>. His landslide reelection in 1832 emboldened calls for Cherokee removal. Georgia sold Cherokee lands to its citizens in a <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Land_Lottery" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Land Lottery">Land Lottery</a>, and the state militia occupied <a href="/wiki/New_Echota" title="New Echota">New Echota</a>. The Cherokee National Council, led by John Ross, fled to <a href="/wiki/Red_Clay_State_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Clay State Park">Red Clay</a>, a remote valley north of Georgia's land claim. Ross had the support of Cherokee traditionalists, who could not imagine removal from their ancestral lands. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg/220px-Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg/330px-Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg/440px-Cherokee_beadwork_sampler_1840_ohs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="504" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>Cherokee <a href="/wiki/Beadwork" title="Beadwork">beadwork</a> sampler, made at <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Presbyterian_Mission" title="Dwight Presbyterian Mission">Dwight Mission</a>, Indian Territory, 19th century, collection of the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_History_Center" title="Oklahoma History Center">Oklahoma History Center</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>A small group known as the "Ridge Party" or the "Treaty Party" saw relocation as inevitable and believed the Cherokee Nation needed to make the best deal to preserve their rights in Indian Territory. Led by <a href="/wiki/Major_Ridge" title="Major Ridge">Major Ridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Ridge" title="John Ridge">John Ridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)" title="Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)">Elias Boudinot</a>, they represented the Cherokee elite, whose homes, plantations and businesses were confiscated, or under threat of being taken by white squatters with Georgia land-titles. With capital to acquire new lands, they were more inclined to accept relocation. On December 29, 1835, the "Ridge Party" signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota" title="Treaty of New Echota">Treaty of New Echota</a>, stipulating terms and conditions for the removal of the Cherokee Nation. In return for their lands, the Cherokee were promised a large tract in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a>, $5 million, and $300,000 for improvements on their new lands.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John Ross gathered over 15,000 signatures for a petition to the U.S. Senate, insisting that the treaty was invalid because it did not have the support of the majority of the Cherokee people. The Senate passed the Treaty of New Echota by a one-vote margin. It was enacted into law in May 1836.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years later, President <a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Martin Van Buren</a> ordered 7,000 federal troops and state militia under General <a href="/wiki/Winfield_Scott" title="Winfield Scott">Winfield Scott</a> into Cherokee lands to evict the tribe. Over 16,000 Cherokee were forcibly relocated westward to <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> in 1838–1839, a migration known as the <a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a> or in Cherokee <span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏅᎾ ᏓᎤᎳ ᏨᏱ</span></span> or <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">Nvna Daula Tsvyi</i></span> (<i>The Trail Where They Cried</i>), although it is described by another word <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">Tlo-va-sa</i></span> (<i>The Removal</i>). Marched over 800 miles (1,300 km) across <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, the people suffered from disease, exposure and starvation, and as many as 4,000 died, nearly a fifth of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As some Cherokees were slaveholders, they took <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">enslaved</a> African Americans with them west of the Mississippi. Intermarried European Americans and <a href="/wiki/Missionaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Missionaries">missionaries</a> also walked the Trail of Tears. Ross preserved a vestige of independence by negotiating permission for the Cherokee to conduct their own removal under U.S. supervision.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In keeping with the tribe's "blood law" that prescribed the death penalty for Cherokee who sold lands, Ross's son arranged the murder of the leaders of the "Treaty Party". On June 22, 1839, a party of twenty-five Ross supporters assassinated Major Ridge, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot. The party included Daniel Colston, John Vann, Archibald, James and Joseph Spear. Boudinot's brother <a href="/wiki/Stand_Watie" title="Stand Watie">Stand Watie</a> fought and survived that day, escaping to <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>. </p><p>In 1827, <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a> had led a delegation of Old Settlers to Washington, D.C., to negotiate for the exchange of Arkansas land for land in Indian Territory. After the Trail of Tears, he helped mediate divisions between the Old Settlers and the rival factions of the more recent arrivals. In 1839, as President of the Western Cherokee, Sequoyah signed an Act of Union with John Ross that reunited the two groups of the Cherokee Nation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Eastern_Band">Eastern Band</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Eastern Band"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:C%C3%B3l-lee,_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_(1985.66.285)_Smithsonian.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg/170px-C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg/255px-C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg/340px-C%C3%B3l-lee%2C_a_Band_Chief_Cherokee_by_George_Catlin_%281985.66.285%29_Smithsonian.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1146" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Cól-lee, a Band Chief, painted by <a href="/wiki/George_Catlin" title="George Catlin">George Catlin</a>, 1834</figcaption></figure> <p>The Cherokee living along the <a href="/wiki/Oconaluftee_River" title="Oconaluftee River">Oconaluftee River</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains" title="Great Smoky Mountains">Great Smoky Mountains</a> were the most conservative and isolated from European–American settlements. They rejected the reforms of the Cherokee Nation. When the Cherokee government ceded all territory east of the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a> to <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> in 1819, they withdrew from the Nation.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Holland_Thomas" title="William Holland Thomas">William Holland Thomas</a>, a white store owner and state legislator from <a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_North_Carolina" title="Jackson County, North Carolina">Jackson County, North Carolina</a>, helped over 600 Cherokee from <a href="/wiki/Cherokee,_North_Carolina" title="Cherokee, North Carolina">Qualla Town</a> obtain North Carolina citizenship, which exempted them from forced removal. Over 400 Cherokee either hid from Federal troops in the remote Snowbird Mountains, under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Tsali" title="Tsali">Tsali</a> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏣᎵ</span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-Tsali_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tsali-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or belonged to the former Valley Towns area around the <a href="/wiki/Cheoah_River" title="Cheoah River">Cheoah River</a> who negotiated with the state government to stay in North Carolina. An additional 400 Cherokee stayed on reserves in Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia, and Northeast Alabama, as citizens of their respective states. They were mostly mixed-race and Cherokee women married to white men. Together, these groups were the ancestors of the federally recognized <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a>, and some of the state-recognized tribes in surrounding states. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif/280px-Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif" decoding="async" width="280" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif/420px-Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif/560px-Cherokee_Confederates_Reunion.gif 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="353" /></a><figcaption>Cherokee confederates reunion in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, 1902.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Cherokee in the American Civil War">Cherokee in the American Civil War</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> was devastating for both East and Western Cherokee. The Eastern Band, aided by <a href="/wiki/William_Holland_Thomas" title="William Holland Thomas">William Thomas</a>, became the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders, fighting for the Confederacy in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Will_Thomas_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Will_Thomas-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cherokee in Indian Territory divided into Union and Confederate factions. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stand_Watie" title="Stand Watie">Stand Watie</a>, the leader of the Ridge Party, raised a regiment for <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederate Army">Confederate</a> service in 1861. <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a>, who had reluctantly agreed to ally with the Confederacy, was captured by Federal troops in 1862. He lived in a self-imposed exile in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, supporting the Union. In the Indian Territory, the national council of those who supported the Union voted to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation in 1863, but they were not the majority slaveholders and the vote had little effect on those supporting the Confederacy. </p><p>Watie was elected Principal Chief of the pro-Confederacy majority. A master of hit-and-run cavalry tactics, Watie fought those Cherokee loyal to John Ross and Federal troops in <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, capturing Union supply trains and <a href="/wiki/Steamboats" class="mw-redirect" title="Steamboats">steamboats</a>, and saving a Confederate army by covering their retreat after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge" title="Battle of Pea Ridge">Battle of Pea Ridge</a> in March 1862. He became a Brigadier General of the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederate States">Confederate States</a>; the only other American Indian to hold the rank in the American Civil War was <a href="/wiki/Ely_S._Parker" title="Ely S. Parker">Ely S. Parker</a> with the Union Army. On June 25, 1865, two months after <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> surrendered at <a href="/wiki/Appomattox_Court_House_National_Historical_Park" title="Appomattox Court House National Historical Park">Appomattox</a>, Stand Watie became the last Confederate General to stand down. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reconstruction_and_late_19th_century">Reconstruction and late 19th century</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Reconstruction and late 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Group_of_Cherokee,_Yankton,_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg/220px-Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg/330px-Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg/440px-Group_of_Cherokee%2C_Yankton%2C_and_Sisseton_1909.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1019" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>William Penn (Cherokee), His Shield (Yanktonai), Levi Big Eagle (Yanktonai), Bear Ghost (Yanktonai) and Black Moustache (Sisseton).</figcaption></figure> <p>After the Civil War, the U.S. government required the Cherokee Nation to sign a new treaty, because of its alliance with the Confederacy. The U.S. required the 1866 Treaty to provide for the <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States">emancipation</a> of all Cherokee slaves, and full citizenship to all <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Freedmen" title="Cherokee Freedmen">Cherokee Freedmen</a> and all African Americans who chose to continue to reside within tribal lands, so that they "shall have all the rights of native Cherokees."<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both before and after the Civil War, some Cherokee intermarried or had relationships with African Americans, just as they had with whites. Many Cherokee Freedmen have been active politically within the tribe. </p><p>The US government also acquired <a href="/wiki/Easement" title="Easement">easement</a> rights to the western part of the territory, which became the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory" title="Oklahoma Territory">Oklahoma Territory</a>, for the construction of railroads. Development and settlers followed the railroads. By the late 19th century, the government believed that Native Americans would be better off if each family owned its own land. The <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Act" title="Dawes Act">Dawes Act</a> of 1887 provided for the breakup of commonly held tribal land into individual household allotments. Native Americans were registered on the Dawes Rolls and allotted land from the common reserve. The U.S. government counted the remainder of tribal land as "surplus" and sold it to non-Cherokee individuals. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Act_of_1898" title="Curtis Act of 1898">Curtis Act of 1898</a> dismantled tribal governments, courts, schools, and other civic institutions. For Indian Territory, this meant the abolition of the Cherokee courts and governmental systems. This was seen as necessary before the Oklahoma and Indian territories could be admitted as a combined state. In 1905, the <a href="/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes" title="Five Civilized Tribes">Five Civilized Tribes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> proposed the creation of the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Sequoyah" title="State of Sequoyah">State of Sequoyah</a> as one to be exclusively Native American but failed to gain support in Washington, D.C.. In 1907, the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory" title="Oklahoma Territory">Oklahoma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territories</a> entered the union as the state of <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CherokeeOSTA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/CherokeeOSTA.svg/280px-CherokeeOSTA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/CherokeeOSTA.svg/420px-CherokeeOSTA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/CherokeeOSTA.svg/560px-CherokeeOSTA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="395" /></a><figcaption>Map of present-day Cherokee Nation Tribal Jurisdiction Area (red)</figcaption></figure> <p>By the late 19th century, the Eastern Band of Cherokee were laboring under the constraints of a <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">segregated</a> society. In the aftermath of <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction era of the United States">Reconstruction</a>, conservative white Democrats regained power in North Carolina and other southern states. They proceeded to effectively <a href="/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era (United States)">disenfranchise</a> all blacks and many poor whites by new constitutions and laws related to voter registration and elections. They passed <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">Jim Crow laws</a> that divided society into "white" and "colored", mostly to control freedmen. Cherokee and other Native Americans were classified on the colored side and suffered the same racial segregation and disenfranchisement as former slaves. They also often lost their historical documentation for identification as Indians, when the Southern states classified them as colored. Black Americans and Native Americans would not have their constitutional rights as U.S. citizens enforced until after the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a> secured passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, and the federal government began to monitor voter registration and elections, as well as other programs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2025)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tribal_land_jurisdiction_status">Tribal land jurisdiction status</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Tribal land jurisdiction status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On July 9, 2020, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> decided in the <a href="/wiki/McGirt_v._Oklahoma" title="McGirt v. Oklahoma">McGirt v Oklahoma</a> decision in a criminal jurisdiction case that roughly half the land of the state of Oklahoma made up of tribal nations like the Cherokee are officially Native American tribal land jurisdictions.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oklahoma Governor <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Stitt" title="Kevin Stitt">Kevin Stitt</a>, himself a Cherokee Nation citizen, sought to reverse the Supreme Court decision. The following year, the state of Oklahoma couldn't block federal action to grant the Cherokee Nation—along with the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and <a href="/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a> Nations—reservation status.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population_history">Population history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Population history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John R. Swanton enumerates 201 Cherokee villages and towns.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee had 6,000 warriors (and therefore around 30,000 people) in years 1730–35 according to <a href="/wiki/John_Adair" title="John Adair">J. Adair</a>. In 1738 they also had 6,000 warriors, but down to 5,000 in 1740 (according to Ga. Hist. Coll., II). Colonel <a href="/wiki/James_Oglethorpe" title="James Oglethorpe">James Oglethorpe</a> confirms that they had 5,000 warriors in 1739 (Ga. Coll. Rec., V). Also according to Ga. Coll. Rec., V an epidemic reduced them "by almost one-half" in 1738, but this source doesn't specify how numerous they were before the epidemic. Perhaps this source exaggerates the casualties caused by that epidemic, and in fact it killed just around 1,000 warriors. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Dobbs" title="Arthur Dobbs">Arthur Dobbs</a> estimated the Cherokee warrior strength in 1755 at 2,590 (but W. Douglas at about the same time reported 6,000 warriors). In 1761 soon after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Cherokee_War" title="Anglo-Cherokee War">Anglo-Cherokee War</a> there were 2,300 warriors according to <a href="/wiki/John_Adair" title="John Adair">J. Adair</a>. By year 1768 their number recovered back to 3,000 warriors, and B. R. Carroll in "Historical Collections of South Carolina" also reported that they had 3,000 warriors.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1819 there were 4,000 warriors (and therefore around 20,000 people - including about 5,000 to the west of the Mississippi). <a href="/wiki/George_Catlin" title="George Catlin">George Catlin</a> estimated 22,000 Cherokees in 1832, before their <a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">removal</a>. But according to a report by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated November 25, 1841, the number of Cherokees who had already been removed west of the Mississippi (to Oklahoma, <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a>) was 25,911.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Schoolcraft" title="Henry Schoolcraft">Henry Schoolcraft</a> reported 21,707 Cherokees in 1857. Indian Affairs 1861 reported 22,000. Enumeration published in 1886 counted 23,000 Cherokee in Oklahoma (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a>) as of year 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indian Affairs reported in 1890 around 25,000 among the Western Cherokee (in Oklahoma) and in years 1884 and 1889 around 3,000 among the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Cherokee</a>. The Cherokee national census of 1890 in Oklahoma gave the total number of the nation under Cherokee law to be 25,978. In 1900 there were 35,000 in Oklahoma. According to <a href="/wiki/James_Mooney" title="James Mooney">James Mooney</a> (quoted by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Webb_Hodge" title="Frederick Webb Hodge">Frederick Webb Hodge</a>) the majority of the earlier estimates of the Cherokee population are probably too low as the Cherokee occupied so extensive a territory that only a part of them came into contact with the Whites. Indian Affairs 1910 reported that in 1910 the Cherokee in Oklahoma contained 41,701 people, including 36,301 by blood, 286 by intermarriage and 4,917 Freedmen.<sup id="cite_ref-Krzywicki_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krzywicki-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the census of 1910 counted 31,489 Cherokees. </p><p>In the 2020 census a total of 1,130,730 people claimed Cherokee ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However the percentage of full-blood individuals is probably very low considering that the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee</a> Indians reported having only 395 full-blood members.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perhaps there is a larger number of full-blood individuals among the <a href="/wiki/United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians">United Keetoowah Band</a> and among the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spirituality">Spirituality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Spirituality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cherokee believe that the world is divided into two major spiritual forces: "red" (war, success, youth) and "white" (peace, instrospection, old age).<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cultural_institutions">Cultural institutions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Cultural institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., of <a href="/wiki/Cherokee,_North_Carolina" title="Cherokee, North Carolina">Cherokee, North Carolina</a>, is the oldest continuing Native American art co-operative. They were founded in 1946 to provide a venue for traditional Eastern Band Cherokee artists.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Cherokee_Indian" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of the Cherokee Indian">Museum of the Cherokee Indian</a>, also in Cherokee, displays permanent and changing exhibits, houses archives and collections important to Cherokee history, and sponsors cultural groups, such as the Warriors of the AniKituhwa dance group.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a> entered into a partnership with <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_Community_College_(North_Carolina)" title="Southwestern Community College (North Carolina)">Southwestern Community College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Western_Carolina_University" title="Western Carolina University">Western Carolina University</a> to create the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts (OICA), to emphasize native art and culture in traditional fine arts education. This is intended both to preserve traditional art forms and encourage exploration of contemporary ideas. Located in Cherokee, OICA offered an associate degree program.<sup id="cite_ref-SCC_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCC-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2010, OICA acquired a letterpress and had the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a> recast to begin printing one-of-a-kind fine art books and prints in the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-letterpress_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-letterpress-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, the Fine Art degree program at OICA was incorporated into <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_Community_College_(North_Carolina)" title="Southwestern Community College (North Carolina)">Southwestern Community College</a> and moved to the SCC Swain Center, where it continues to operate.<sup id="cite_ref-Moved_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moved-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Heritage_Center" title="Cherokee Heritage Center">Cherokee Heritage Center</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Park_Hill,_Oklahoma" title="Park Hill, Oklahoma">Park Hill, Oklahoma</a>, is the site of a reproduction of an ancient Cherokee village, Adams Rural Village (including 19th-century buildings), Nofire Farms, and the Cherokee Family Research Center for genealogy.<sup id="cite_ref-CHC_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHC-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee Heritage Center also houses the Cherokee National Archives. Both the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> (of Oklahoma) and the <a href="/wiki/United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee">United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee</a>, as well as other tribes, contribute funding to the CHC. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage">Marriage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Marriage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a> was common among the Cherokee, especially by elite men.<sup id="cite_ref-Perdue_1999,_p._176_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perdue_1999,_p._176-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Matrilineal" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrilineal">matrilineal</a> culture meant that women controlled property, such as their dwellings, and their children were considered born into their mother's <a href="/wiki/Clan" title="Clan">clan</a>, where they gained hereditary status. Advancement to leadership positions was generally subject to approval by the women elders. In addition, the society was <a href="/wiki/Matrifocal" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrifocal">matrifocal</a>; customarily, a married couple lived with or near the woman's family, so she could be aided by her female relatives. Her eldest brother was a more important mentor to her sons than was their father, who belonged to another clan. Traditionally, couples, particularly women, can divorce freely.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was unusual for a Cherokee man to marry a European-American woman. The children of such a union were disadvantaged, as they would not belong to the nation. They would be born outside the clans and traditionally were not considered Cherokee citizens. This is because of the matrilineal aspect of Cherokee culture.<sup id="cite_ref-Perdue_1999,_p._176_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perdue_1999,_p._176-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the Cherokee began to adopt some elements of European-American culture in the early 19th century, they sent elite young men, such as <a href="/wiki/John_Ridge" title="John Ridge">John Ridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)" title="Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)">Elias Boudinot</a> to American schools for education. After Ridge had married a European-American woman from Connecticut and Boudinot was engaged to another, the Cherokee Council in 1825 passed a law making children of such unions full citizens of the tribe, as if their mothers were Cherokee. This was a way to protect the families of men expected to be leaders of the tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government put new restrictions on marriage between a Cherokee and non-Cherokee, although it was still relatively common. A European-American man could legally marry a Cherokee woman by petitioning the federal court, after gaining the approval of ten of her blood relatives. Once married, the man had status as an "Intermarried White," a member of the Cherokee tribe with restricted rights; for instance, he could not hold any tribal office. He remained a citizen of and under the laws of the United States. <a href="/wiki/Common_law_marriage" class="mw-redirect" title="Common law marriage">Common law marriages</a> were more popular. Such "Intermarried Whites" were listed in a separate category on the registers of the <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Rolls" title="Dawes Rolls">Dawes Rolls</a>, prepared for allotment of plots of land to individual households of members of the tribe, in the early twentieth-century federal policy for <a href="/wiki/Cultural_assimilation" title="Cultural assimilation">assimilation</a> of the Native Americans. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnobotany_definition">Ethnobotany definition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Ethnobotany definition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_ethnobotany" title="Cherokee ethnobotany">Cherokee ethnobotany</a></div> <p>Ethnobotany is the study of interrelations between humans and plants; however, current use of the term implies the study of indigenous or traditional knowledge of plants. It involves the indigenous knowledge of plant classification, cultivation, and use as food, medicine and shelter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gender_roles">Gender roles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Gender roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Men and women have historically played important yet, at times, different roles in Cherokee society. Historically, women have primarily been the heads of households, owning the home and the land, farmers of the family's land, and "mothers" of the <a href="/wiki/Clan" title="Clan">clans</a>. As in many <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> cultures, Cherokee women are honored as life-givers.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As givers and nurturers of life via childbirth and the growing of plants, and community leaders as clan mothers, women are traditionally community leaders in Cherokee communities. Some have served as warriors, both historically and in contemporary culture in military service. Cherokee women are regarded as tradition-keepers and responsible for cultural preservation.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The redefining of gender roles in <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee</a> society first occurred in the time period between 1776 and 1835.<sup id="cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paulk-Kribel-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This period is demarcated by the <a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto#De_Soto's_exploration_of_North_America" title="Hernando de Soto">De Soto exploration</a> and subsequent invasion, was followed by the American Revolution in 1776, and culminated with the signing of <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota" title="Treaty of New Echota">Treaty of New Echota</a> in 1835. The purpose of this redefinition was to push European social standards and norms on the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee</a> people.<sup id="cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paulk-Kribel-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The long-lasting effect of these practices reorganized Cherokee forms of government towards a male-dominated society which has affected the nation for generations.<sup id="cite_ref-Miles_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miles-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Miles argues white agents were mainly responsible for the shifting of <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee</a> attitudes toward women's role in politics and domestic spaces.<sup id="cite_ref-Miles_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miles-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These "white agents" could be identified as <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">white missionaries</a> and white <a href="/wiki/Settler" title="Settler">settlers</a> seeking out "<a href="/wiki/Manifest_destiny" title="Manifest destiny">manifest destiny</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Miles_95-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miles-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time of removal in the mid-1830s, Cherokee men and women had begun to fulfill different roles and expectations as defined by the "civilization" program promoted by US presidents <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paulk-Kribel-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Cite_check plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>may contain <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITE">citations</a> that do not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verify</a> the text</b>. The reason given is: <b>Cited text does not draw the conclusions in this paragraph.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit">check for citation inaccuracies</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>While there is a record of a non-Native traveler in 1825 noticing what he considered to be "men who assumed the dress and performed the duties of women", this observer was unfamiliar with how the Natives in that region dressed. There is no evidence of what would now be considered "<a href="/wiki/Two-spirit" title="Two-spirit">two-spirit</a>" individuals in Cherokee society; this is generally the case in matriarchal and matrilineal cultures, as <a href="/wiki/Third_gender" title="Third gender">third gender</a> roles are usually found in <a href="/wiki/Patriarchal" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarchal">patriarchal</a> societies and cultures with more rigid gender roles.<sup id="cite_ref-Smithers_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smithers-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavery">Slavery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Slavery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Freedmen#Slavery_among_the_Cherokee" title="Cherokee Freedmen">Cherokee Freedmen § Slavery among the Cherokee</a></div> <p>Slavery was a component of Cherokee society prior to <a href="/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="European colonization of the Americas">European colonization</a>, as they frequently enslaved enemy captives taken during times of conflict with other indigenous tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By their oral tradition, the Cherokee viewed slavery as the result of an individual's failure in warfare and as a temporary status, pending release or the slave's adoption into the tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-Russell_2002_p70_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russell_2002_p70-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Colonial history of the United States">colonial era</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Carolinian</a> settlers purchased or impressed Cherokees <a href="/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas">as slaves</a> during the late 17th and early 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee were also among the Native American peoples who sold <a href="/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery among Native Americans in the United States">Indian slaves</a> to traders for use as laborers in Virginia and further north. They took them as captives in raids on enemy tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-gallay_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gallay-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the Cherokee began to adopt some European-American customs, they began to purchase <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">enslaved African Americans</a> to serve as workers on their farms or plantations, which some of the elite families had in the antebellum years. When the Cherokee were forcibly removed on the <a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a>, they took slaves with them, and acquired others in <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Funeral_rites">Funeral rites</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Funeral rites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_funeral_rites" title="Cherokee funeral rites">Cherokee funeral rites</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_and_writing_system">Language and writing system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Language and writing system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Cherokee language</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sequoyah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Sequoyah.jpg/170px-Sequoyah.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Sequoyah.jpg/255px-Sequoyah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Sequoyah.jpg/340px-Sequoyah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1462" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a>, the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/220px--WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="574" data-mwtitle="WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm/WIKITONGUES-_Jerry_speaking_English_and_Cherokee.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>A Cherokee speaker speaking English and Cherokee</figcaption></figure> <p>The Cherokee speak a Southern <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian_languages" title="Iroquoian languages">Iroquoian</a> language, which is <a href="/wiki/Polysynthetic_language" title="Polysynthetic language">polysynthetic</a> and is written in a <a href="/wiki/Syllabary" title="Syllabary">syllabary</a> invented by <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏍᏏᏉᏯ</span></span>) in the 1810s.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For years, many people wrote and transliterated Cherokee or used poor intercompatible fonts to type out the syllabary. However, since the fairly recent addition of the Cherokee syllables to <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>, the Cherokee language is experiencing a renaissance in its use on the Internet. </p><p>Because of the polysynthetic nature of the Cherokee language, new and descriptive words in Cherokee are easily constructed to reflect or express modern concepts. Examples include <i>ditiyohihi</i> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏗᏘᏲᎯᎯ</span></span>), which means "he argues repeatedly and on purpose with a purpose," meaning "attorney." Another example is <i>didaniyisgi</i> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏗᏓᏂᏱᏍᎩ</span></span>) which means "he catches them finally and conclusively," meaning "policeman." </p><p>Many words, however, have been borrowed from the English language, such as <i>gasoline</i>, which in Cherokee is <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">ga-so-li-ne</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎦᏐᎵᏁ</span></span>). Many other words were borrowed from the languages of tribes who settled in Oklahoma in the early 20th century. One example relates to a town in Oklahoma named "Nowata". The word <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">nowata</i></span> is a <a href="/wiki/Delaware_languages" title="Delaware languages">Delaware Indian</a> word for "welcome" (more precisely the Delaware word is <span title="Delaware-language text"><i lang="del">nu-wi-ta</i></span> which can mean "welcome" or "friend" in the Delaware Language). The white settlers of the area used the name "nowata" for the township, and local Cherokees, being unaware the word had its origins in the Delaware Language, called the town <i>Amadikanigvnagvna</i> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎠᎹᏗᎧᏂᎬᎾᎬᎾ</span></span>) which means "the water is all gone from here", i.e. "no water". </p><p>Other examples of borrowed words are <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">kawi</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎧᏫ</span></span>) for <i>coffee</i> and <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">watsi</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᏩᏥ</span></span>) for <i>watch</i> (which led to <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">utana watsi</i></span> (<span title="Cherokee-language text"><span lang="chr">ᎤᏔᎾ ᏩᏥ</span></span>) or "big watch" for <i>clock</i>). </p><p>The following table is an example of Cherokee text and its translation: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td style="background:#fff;"><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">ᏣᎳᎩ</a>: ᏂᎦᏓ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᏂᎨᎫᏓᎸᎾ ᎠᎴ ᎤᏂᏠᏱ ᎤᎾᏕᎿ ᏚᏳᎧᏛ ᎨᏒᎢ. ᎨᏥᏁᎳ ᎤᎾᏓᏅᏖᏗ ᎠᎴ ᎤᏃᏟᏍᏗ ᎠᎴ ᏌᏊ ᎨᏒ ᏧᏂᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᏗ ᎠᎾᏟᏅᏢ ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᎬᏗ.<sup id="cite_ref-Omniglot_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Omniglot-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddd;"><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_language" title="Cherokee language">Tsalagi</a>: <span title="Cherokee-language text"><i lang="chr">Nigada aniyvwi nigeguda'lvna ale unihloyi unadehna duyukdv gesv'i. Gejinela unadanvtehdi ale unohlisdi ale sagwu gesv junilvwisdanedi anahldinvdlv adanvdo gvhdi.</i></span><sup id="cite_ref-Omniglot_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Omniglot-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.</i> <i>(Article 1 of the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>)</i><sup id="cite_ref-Omniglot_103-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Omniglot-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Treaties_and_government">Treaties and government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Treaties and government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Treaties">Treaties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Treaties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Historic_treaties_of_the_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic treaties of the Cherokee">Historic treaties of the Cherokee</a></div> <p>The Cherokee have participated in at least thirty-six treaties in the past three hundred years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Government">Government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td>1794</td> <td>Establishment of the Cherokee National Council and officers over the whole nation </td></tr> <tr> <td>1808</td> <td>Establishment of the Cherokee Lighthorse Guard, a national police force </td></tr> <tr> <td>1809</td> <td>Establishment of the National Committee </td></tr> <tr> <td>1810</td> <td>End of separate regional councils and abolition of blood vengeance </td></tr> <tr> <td>1820</td> <td>Establishment of courts in eight districts to handle civil disputes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1822</td> <td>Cherokee Supreme Court established </td></tr> <tr> <td>1823</td> <td>National Committee given power to review acts of the National Council </td></tr> <tr> <td>1827</td> <td>Constitution of the Cherokee Nation East </td></tr> <tr> <td>1828</td> <td>Constitution of the Cherokee Nation West </td></tr> <tr> <td>1832</td> <td>Suspension of elections in the Cherokee Nation East </td></tr> <tr> <td>1839</td> <td>Constitution of the reunited Cherokee Nation </td></tr> <tr> <td>1868</td> <td>Constitution of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians </td></tr> <tr> <td>1888</td> <td>Charter of Incorporation issued by the State of North Carolina to the Eastern Band </td></tr> <tr> <td>1950</td> <td>Constitution and federal charter of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians </td></tr> <tr> <td>1975</td> <td>Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999</td> <td>Constitution of the Cherokee Nation drafted<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After being ravaged by smallpox, and feeling pressure from European settlers, the Cherokee adopted a European-American <a href="/wiki/Representative_democracy" title="Representative democracy">Representative democracy</a> form of government in an effort to retain their lands. They established a governmental system modeled on that of the United States, with an elected principal chief, senate, and house of representatives. On April 10, 1810 the seven Cherokee clans met and began the abolition of blood vengeance by giving the sacred duty to the new Cherokee National government. Clans formally relinquished judicial responsibilities by the 1820s when the Cherokee Supreme Court was established. In 1825, the National Council extended citizenship to the children of Cherokee men married to white women. These ideas were largely incorporated into the 1827 Cherokee constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The constitution stated that "No person who is of negro or <a href="/wiki/Mulatto" title="Mulatto">mulatto</a>  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] parentage, either by the father or mother side, shall be eligible to hold any office of profit, honor or trust under this Government," with an exception for, "negroes and descendants of white and Indian men by negro women who may have been set free."<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This definition to limit rights of multiracial descendants may have been more widely held among the elite than the general population.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_Cherokee_tribes">Modern Cherokee tribes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Modern Cherokee tribes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cherokee_Nation">Cherokee Nation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Cherokee Nation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg/300px-Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg/400px-Flag_of_the_Cherokee_Nation.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1170" data-file-height="703" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the Cherokee Nation</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg/220px-Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg/330px-Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg/440px-Cherokee_National_Capitol.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Capitol" title="Cherokee National Capitol">Cherokee Nation Historic Courthouse</a> in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seminary_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Seminary_Hall.jpg/220px-Seminary_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Seminary_Hall.jpg/330px-Seminary_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Seminary_Hall.jpg/440px-Seminary_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2109" data-file-height="1659" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Female_Seminary" title="Cherokee Female Seminary">Cherokee Female Seminary</a> was built in 1889 by the Cherokee in Indian Territory.</figcaption></figure> <p>During 1898–1906 the federal government dissolved the former Cherokee Nation, to make way for the incorporation of <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> into the new state of <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>. From 1906 to 1975, the structure and function of the tribal government were defunct, except for the purposes of DOI management. In 1975 the tribe drafted a constitution, which they ratified on June 26, 1976,<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the tribe received federal recognition. </p><p>In 1999, the CN changed or added several provisions to its constitution, among them the designation of the tribe to be "Cherokee Nation," dropping "of Oklahoma." According to a 2009 statement by BIA head <a href="/wiki/Larry_Echo_Hawk" title="Larry Echo Hawk">Larry Echo Hawk</a>, the Cherokee Nation is not legally considered the "historical Cherokee tribe" but instead a "successor in interest." The attorney of the Cherokee Nation has stated that they intend to appeal this decision.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The modern Cherokee Nation, in recent times, has expanded economically, providing equality and prosperity for its citizens. Under the leadership of Principal Chief <a href="/wiki/Bill_John_Baker" title="Bill John Baker">Bill John Baker</a>, the Nation has significant business, corporate, real estate, and agricultural interests. The CN controls Cherokee Nation Entertainment, Cherokee Nation Industries, and Cherokee Nation Businesses. CNI is a very large defense contractor that creates thousands of jobs in eastern Oklahoma for Cherokee citizens. </p><p>The CN has constructed health clinics throughout Oklahoma, contributed to community development programs, built roads and bridges, constructed learning facilities and universities for its citizens, instilled the practice of <a href="/wiki/Gadugi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gadugi">Gadugi</a> and self-reliance, revitalized language immersion programs for its children and youth, and is a powerful and positive economic and political force in Eastern Oklahoma. </p><p>The CN hosts the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Holiday" title="Cherokee National Holiday">Cherokee National Holiday</a> on Labor Day weekend each year, and 80,000 to 90,000 Cherokee citizens travel to <a href="/wiki/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma" title="Tahlequah, Oklahoma">Tahlequah, Oklahoma</a>, for the festivities. It publishes the <i><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix" title="Cherokee Phoenix">Cherokee Phoenix</a>,</i> the tribal newspaper, in both English and Cherokee, using the Sequoyah syllabary. The Cherokee Nation council appropriates money for historic foundations concerned with the preservation of Cherokee culture. </p><p>The Cherokee Nation supports the Cherokee Nation Film festivals in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and participates in the <a href="/wiki/Sundance_Film_Festival" title="Sundance Film Festival">Sundance Film Festival</a> in <a href="/wiki/Park_City,_Utah" title="Park City, Utah">Park City, Utah</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a></div> <p>The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, led by Chief Richard Sneed, hosts over a million visitors a year to cultural attractions of the 100-square-mile (260 km<sup>2</sup>) sovereign nation. The reservation, the "<a href="/wiki/Qualla_Boundary" title="Qualla Boundary">Qualla Boundary</a>", has a population of over 8,000 Cherokee, primarily direct descendants of Indians who managed to avoid "<a href="/wiki/The_Trail_of_Tears" class="mw-redirect" title="The Trail of Tears">The Trail of Tears</a>". </p><p>Attractions include the Oconaluftee Indian Village, Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. Founded in 1946, the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual is the country's oldest and foremost Native American crafts cooperative.<sup id="cite_ref-NCsmokymtns_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCsmokymtns-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The outdoor drama <i><a href="/wiki/Unto_These_Hills" title="Unto These Hills">Unto These Hills</a></i>, which debuted in 1950, recently broke record attendance sales. Together with Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel, Cherokee Indian Hospital and Cherokee Boys Club, the tribe generated $78 million in the local economy in 2005. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians">United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:UKBflag_(bordered).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/UKBflag_%28bordered%29.png/200px-UKBflag_%28bordered%29.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/UKBflag_%28bordered%29.png/300px-UKBflag_%28bordered%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/UKBflag_%28bordered%29.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="216" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians" title="United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians">United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians</a></div> <p>The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians formed their government under the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Reorganization_Act" title="Indian Reorganization Act">Indian Reorganization Act</a> of 1934 and gained federal recognition in 1946. Enrollment in the tribe is limited to people with a quarter or more of Cherokee blood. Many members of the UKB are descended from Old Settlers – Cherokees who moved to Arkansas and Indian Territory before the Trail of Tears.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 12,000 people enrolled in the tribe, 11,000 live in Oklahoma. Their chief is Joe Bunch. </p><p>The UKB operate a tribal casino, bingo hall, smokeshop, fuel outlets, truck stop, and gallery that showcases art and crafts made by tribal members. The tribe issues their own tribal vehicle tags.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relations_among_the_three_federally_recognized_Cherokee_tribes">Relations among the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Relations among the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Cherokee Nation participates in numerous joint programs with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. It also participates in cultural exchange programs and joint Tribal Council meetings involving councilors from both Cherokee Tribes. These are held to address issues affecting all of the Cherokee people. </p><p>174 years after the <a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a>, on July 12, 2012, the leaders of the three separate Cherokee tribes met in North Carolina.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)"><span title="The geographic scope near this tag is ambiguous. (May 2020)">where?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contemporary_settlement">Contemporary settlement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Contemporary settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cherokee people are most concentrated in Oklahoma and North Carolina, but some reside in the <a href="/wiki/US_West_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="US West Coast">US West Coast</a>, due to economic migrations caused by the <a href="/wiki/Dust_Bowl" title="Dust Bowl">Dust Bowl</a> during the Great Depression, job availability during the Second World War, and the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Relocation_Act_of_1956" title="Indian Relocation Act of 1956">Federal Indian Relocation program</a> during the 1950s–1960s. Destinations for Cherokee diaspora included multi-ethnic/racial urban centers of California (i.e. the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Los Angeles area">Greater Los Angeles</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Areas</a>). They frequently live in farming communities, or by military bases and other Indian reservations.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership_controversies">Membership controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Membership controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tribal_recognition_and_citizenship">Tribal recognition and citizenship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Tribal recognition and citizenship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_descent" title="Cherokee descent">Cherokee descent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_heritage_groups" title="Cherokee heritage groups">Cherokee heritage groups</a></div> <p>The three Cherokee tribes have differing requirements for enrollment. The Cherokee Nation determines enrollment by lineal descent from Cherokees listed on the <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Rolls" title="Dawes Rolls">Dawes Rolls</a> and has no minimum <a href="/wiki/Blood_quantum" class="mw-redirect" title="Blood quantum">blood quantum</a> requirement.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently, descendants of the Dawes Cherokee Freedman rolls are citizens of the tribe, pending court decisions. The Cherokee Nation includes numerous citizens who have mixed ancestry, including African-American, Latino American, Asian American, European-American, and others. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians requires a minimum of one-sixteenth Cherokee blood quantum (genealogical descent, equivalent to one great-great-grandparent) and an ancestor on the <a href="/wiki/Baker_Roll" title="Baker Roll">Baker Roll</a>. The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians requires a minimum of one-quarter Keetoowah Cherokee blood quantum (equivalent to one grandparent). The UKB does not allow citizens who have relinquished their citizenship to re-enroll in the UKB.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2000 <a href="/wiki/United_States_census" title="United States census">United States census</a> reported 729,533 Americans self-identified as Cherokee. The 2010 census reported an increased number of 819,105 with almost 70% being mixed-race Cherokees. In 2015, the Cherokee Nation, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Eastern Band of Cherokees had a combined enrolled population of roughly 344,700.<sup id="cite_ref-slate.com_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slate.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over 200 groups claim to be Cherokee nations, tribes, or bands.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cherokee Nation spokesman Mike Miller has suggested that some groups, which he calls <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Heritage_Groups" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee Heritage Groups">Cherokee Heritage Groups</a>, are encouraged.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others, however, are controversial for their attempts to gain economically through their claims to be Cherokee. The three federally recognized groups note that they are the only groups having the legal right to present themselves as Cherokee Indian Tribes and only their enrolled citizens are legally Cherokee.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One exception to this may be the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Cherokee">Texas Cherokee</a>. Before 1975, they were considered part of the Cherokee Nation, as reflected in briefs filed before the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Claims_Commission" title="Indian Claims Commission">Indian Claims Commission</a>. At one time W.W. Keeler served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation and, at the same time, held the position as Chairman of the Texas Cherokee and Associated Bands (TCAB) Executive Committee. Following the adoption of the Cherokee constitution in 1976, TCAB descendants whose ancestors had remained a part of the physical Mount Tabor Community in <a href="/wiki/Rusk_County,_Texas" title="Rusk County, Texas">Rusk County, Texas</a>, were excluded from CN citizenship. Because they had already migrated from Indian Territory at the time of the <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Commission" title="Dawes Commission">Dawes Commission</a>, their ancestors were not recorded on the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, which serve as the basis for tracing descent for many individuals. But, most if not all TCAB descendants did have an ancestor listed on either the Guion-Miller or Old settler rolls. </p><p>While most Mount Tabor residents returned to the Cherokee Nation after the Civil War and following the death of <a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a> in 1866, in the 21st century, there is a sizable group that is well documented but outside that body. It is not actively seeking a status clarification. They have treaty rights going back to the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Bird%27s_Fort" title="Treaty of Bird's Fort">Treaty of Bird's Fort</a>. From the end of the Civil War until 1975, they were associated with the Cherokee Nation. </p><p>Other remnant populations continue to exist throughout the Southeast United States and individually in the states surrounding Oklahoma. Many of these people trace descent from persons enumerated on official rolls such as the Guion-Miller, Drennan, Mullay, and Henderson Rolls, among others. Other descendants trace their heritage through the treaties of 1817 and 1819 with the federal government that gave individual land allotments to Cherokee households. State-recognized tribes may have different membership requirements and genealogical documentation than to the federally recognized ones. </p><p>Current enrollment guidelines of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma have been approved by the US <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a>. The CN noted such facts during the Constitutional Convention held to ratify a new governing document. The document was eventually ratified by a small portion of the electorate. Any changes to the tribe's enrollment procedures must be approved by the Department of Interior. Under 25 CFR 83, the Office of Federal Acknowledgment is required to first apply its own anthropological, genealogical, and historical research methods to any request for change by the tribe. It forwards its recommendations to the Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs for consideration.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cherokee_Freedmen">Cherokee Freedmen</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Cherokee Freedmen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Freedmen" title="Cherokee Freedmen">Cherokee Freedmen</a></div> <p>The Cherokee Freedmen, descendants of African American slaves owned by citizens of the Cherokee Nation during the <a href="/wiki/Antebellum_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Antebellum Period">Antebellum Period</a>, were first guaranteed Cherokee citizenship under a treaty with the United States in 1866. This was in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, when the U.S. emancipated slaves and passed US constitutional amendments granting freedmen citizenship in the United States. </p><p>In 1988, the federal court in the Freedmen case of <i>Nero v. Cherokee Nation</i><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> held that Cherokees could decide citizenship requirements and exclude Freedmen. On March 7, 2006, the Cherokee Nation Judicial Appeal Tribunal ruled that the Cherokee Freedmen were eligible for Cherokee citizenship. This ruling proved controversial; while the Cherokee Freedman had historically been recorded as "citizens" of the Cherokee Nation at least since 1866 and the later <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Commission" title="Dawes Commission">Dawes Commission</a> Land Rolls, the ruling "did not limit membership to people possessing Cherokee blood".<sup id="cite_ref-Freedman-Decision_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freedman-Decision-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This ruling was consistent with the 1975 Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, in its acceptance of the Cherokee Freedmen on the basis of historical citizenship, rather than documented blood relation. </p><p>On March 3, 2007, a constitutional amendment was passed by a Cherokee vote limiting citizenship to Cherokees on the Dawes Rolls for those listed as Cherokee by blood on the Dawes roll, which did not include partial Cherokee descendants of slaves, Shawnee and Delaware.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Cherokee Freedmen had 90 days to appeal this amendment vote which disenfranchised them from Cherokee citizenship and file appeal within the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council, which is currently pending in <i>Nash, et al. v. Cherokee Nation Registrar</i>. On May 14, 2007, the Cherokee Freedmen were reinstated as citizens of the Cherokee Nation by the Cherokee Nation Tribal Courts through a temporary order and temporary injunction until the court reached its final decision.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 14, 2011, the tribal district court ruled that the 2007 constitutional amendment was invalid because it conflicted with the 1866 treaty guaranteeing the Freedmen's rights.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherokee&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 2,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=High+Country+News&rft.atitle=The+U.S.+has+spent+more+money+erasing+Native+languages+than+saving+them&rft.date=2019-11-05&rft.aulast=Nagle&rft.aufirst=Rebecca&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcn.org%2Fissues%2F51-21-22%2Findigenous-affairs-the-u-s-has-spent-more-money-erasing-native-languages-than-saving-them%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ethnologue17-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ethnologue17_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140925071809/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr">"Cherokee: A Language of the United States"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Ethnologue" title="Ethnologue">Ethnologue</a>: Languages of the World</i>. <a href="/wiki/SIL_International" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL International">SIL International</a>. 2013. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr">the original</a> on September 25, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 20,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Ethnologue%3A+Languages+of+the+World&rft.atitle=Cherokee%3A+A+Language+of+the+United+States&rft.date=2013&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ethnologue.com%2Flanguage%2Fchr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles A. Hanna, <i>The Wilderness Trail</i>, (New York: 1911). This was chronicled by de Soto's expedition as <a href="/wiki/Chalaque" class="mw-redirect" title="Chalaque">Chalaque</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-M&M-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-M&M_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin and Mauldin, <i>A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee</i>, Sturtevant and Fogelson, p. 349.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMooney1975" class="citation book cs1">Mooney, James (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch0000moon/page/4"><i>Historical Sketch of the Cherokee</i></a>. Chicago, IL: Aldine Pub. Co. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch0000moon/page/4">4</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0202011364" title="Special:BookSources/0202011364"><bdi>0202011364</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Historical+Sketch+of+the+Cherokee&rft.place=Chicago%2C+IL&rft.pages=4&rft.pub=Aldine+Pub.+Co.&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0202011364&rft.aulast=Mooney&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoricalsketch0000moon%2Fpage%2F4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tolatsga.org/Cherokee1.html">"Cherokee"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190425221202/http://www.tolatsga.org/Cherokee1.html">Archived</a> April 25, 2019, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> - Tolatsga.org</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoyle2017" class="citation news cs1">Boyle, John (August 21, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/08/21/answer-man-did-cherokee-live-biltmore-estate-lands-early-settlers/581792001/">"Answer Man: Did the Cherokee live on Biltmore Estate lands? Early settlers?"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Asheville_Citizen-Times" title="Asheville Citizen-Times">Asheville Citizen-Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 21,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Asheville+Citizen-Times&rft.atitle=Answer+Man%3A+Did+the+Cherokee+live+on+Biltmore+Estate+lands%3F+Early+settlers%3F&rft.date=2017-08-21&rft.aulast=Boyle&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizen-times.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2017%2F08%2F21%2Fanswer-man-did-cherokee-live-biltmore-estate-lands-early-settlers%2F581792001%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sturtevant and Fogelson, 132</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Finger, 6–7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-clark-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-clark_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2009" class="citation book cs1">Clark, Patricia Roberts (October 21, 2009). <i>Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced</i>. McFarland. p. 11. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-5169-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-5169-2"><bdi>978-0-7864-5169-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tribal+Names+of+the+Americas%3A+Spelling+Variants+and+Alternative+Forms%2C+Cross-Referenced&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2009-10-21&rft.isbn=978-0-7864-5169-2&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Patricia+Roberts&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Or <i>Achalaque</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-clark_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clark-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mooney</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NGE-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NGE_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-573">"Late Prehistoric/Early Historic Chiefdoms (ca. A.D. 1300-1850)"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004040944/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-573">Archived</a> October 4, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>New Georgia Encyclopedia</i>. Retrieved July 22, 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mooney-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mooney_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mooney_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMooney1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_Mooney" title="James Mooney">Mooney, James</a> (1995) [1900]. <i>Myths of the Cherokee</i>. <a href="/wiki/Dover_Publications" title="Dover Publications">Dover Publications</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-486-28907-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-486-28907-9"><bdi>0-486-28907-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Myths+of+the+Cherokee&rft.pub=Dover+Publications&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0-486-28907-9&rft.aulast=Mooney&rft.aufirst=James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Glottochronology from: Lounsbury, Floyd (1961), and Mithun, Marianne (1981), cited in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.famsi.org/research/hopkins/SouthEastUSLanguages.pdf">Nicholas A. Hopkins, <i>The Native Languages of the Southeastern United States</i></a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHally2008" class="citation book cs1">Hally, David (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4yTXwM35pA0C&pg=PA18"><i>King: The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia</i></a>. 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"Legislating Women's Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws". <i>Journal of Social History</i>. <b>38</b> (2): 385–406 [p. 388]. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fjsh.2004.0144">10.1353/jsh.2004.0144</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144646968">144646968</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Social+History&rft.atitle=Legislating+Women%27s+Sexuality%3A+Cherokee+Marriage+Laws&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=385-406+p.+388&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fjsh.2004.0144&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144646968%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Yarbough&rft.aufirst=Fay&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMize2017" class="citation thesis cs1">Mize, Jamie Myers (2017). <i>Sons of Selu: Masculinity and Gendered Power in Cherokee Society, 1775–1846</i> (Thesis). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1954047274">1954047274</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=Sons+of+Selu%3A+Masculinity+and+Gendered+Power+in+Cherokee+Society%2C+1775%E2%80%931846&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Mize&rft.aufirst=Jamie+Myers&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFConnell-SzaszPerdue1999" class="citation journal cs1">Connell-Szasz, Margaret; Perdue, Theda (December 1999). "Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835". <i>The American Historical Review</i>. <b>104</b> (5): 1659. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2649389">10.2307/2649389</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2649389">2649389</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+American+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=Cherokee+Women%3A+Gender+and+Culture+Change%2C+1700-1835&rft.volume=104&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=1659&rft.date=1999-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F2649389&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2649389%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Connell-Szasz&rft.aufirst=Margaret&rft.au=Perdue%2C+Theda&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Paulk-Kribel-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Paulk-Kribel_94-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaulk-Kriebel1999" class="citation journal cs1">Paulk-Kriebel, Virginia Beth (1999). "Review of Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835". <i>The North Carolina Historical Review</i>. <b>76</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">118–</span>119. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23522191">23522191</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+North+Carolina+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=Review+of+Cherokee+Women%3A+Gender+and+Culture+Change%2C+1700-1835&rft.volume=76&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E118-%3C%2Fspan%3E119&rft.date=1999&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F23522191%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Paulk-Kriebel&rft.aufirst=Virginia+Beth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Miles-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Miles_95-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Miles_95-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Miles_95-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiles,_Tiya,_1970-2010" class="citation book cs1">Miles, Tiya, 1970- (2010). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/houseondiamondhi00mile"><i>The house on Diamond Hill : a Cherokee plantation story</i></a></span>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807834183" title="Special:BookSources/9780807834183"><bdi>9780807834183</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/495475390">495475390</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+house+on+Diamond+Hill+%3A+a+Cherokee+plantation+story&rft.place=Chapel+Hill&rft.pub=University+of+North+Carolina+Press&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F495475390&rft.isbn=9780807834183&rft.au=Miles%2C+Tiya%2C+1970-&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhouseondiamondhi00mile&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_numeric_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Smithers-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Smithers_96-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithers2014" class="citation journal cs1">Smithers, Gregory D. (2014). "Cherokee 'Two Spirits': Gender, Ritual, and Spirituality in the Native South". <i>Early American Studies</i>. <b>12</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">626–</span>651. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Feam.2014.0023">10.1353/eam.2014.0023</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24474873">24474873</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143654806">143654806</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Project_Muse" title="Project Muse">Project MUSE</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/552419">552419</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1553321291">1553321291</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Early+American+Studies&rft.atitle=Cherokee+%27Two+Spirits%27%3A+Gender%2C+Ritual%2C+and+Spirituality+in+the+Native+South&rft.volume=12&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E626-%3C%2Fspan%3E651&rft.date=2014&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A143654806%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F24474873%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Feam.2014.0023&rft.aulast=Smithers&rft.aufirst=Gregory+D.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">for a full discussion, see Perdue (1979)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Russell_2002_p70-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Russell_2002_p70_98-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Russell (2002) p70</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Russell (2002) p. 70. Ray (2007) p. 423, says that the peak of enslavement of Native Americans was between 1715 and 1717; it ended after the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gallay-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gallay_100-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGallay2002" class="citation book cs1">Gallay, Alan (2002). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/indianslavetrade00gall"><i>The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670–1717</i></a></span>. Yale University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-10193-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-10193-7"><bdi>0-300-10193-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Indian+Slave+Trade%3A+The+Rise+of+the+English+Empire+in+the+American+South+1670%E2%80%931717&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-300-10193-7&rft.aulast=Gallay&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Findianslavetrade00gall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith" class="citation web cs1">Smith, Ryan P. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/">"How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative"</a>. <i>Smithsonian Magazine</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 9,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Smithsonian+Magazine&rft.atitle=How+Native+American+Slaveholders+Complicate+the+Trail+of+Tears+Narrative&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Ryan+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fsmithsonian-institution%2Fhow-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morand, Ann, Kevin Smith, Daniel C. Swan, and Sarah Erwin. <i>Treasures of Gilcrease: Selections from the Permanent Collection.</i> Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum,2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9725657-1-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-9725657-1-X">0-9725657-1-X</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Omniglot-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Omniglot_103-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Omniglot_103-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Omniglot_103-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cherokee.htm">"Cherokee syllabary"</a>. 1998–2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 14,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Cherokee+syllabary&rft.date=1998%2F2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omniglot.com%2Fwriting%2Fcherokee.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACherokee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This constitution was approved by Cherokee Nation voters in 2003 but was not approved by the BIA. The Cherokee Nation then amended their 1975 constitution to not require BIA approval. The 1999 constitution has been ratified but the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court is currently deciding what year the 1999 constitution officially went into effect. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cherokee.org/Docs/TribalGovernment/Executive/CCC/2003_CN_CONSTITUTION.pdf">Constitution of the Cherokee Nation.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090325120017/http://www.cherokee.org/Docs/TribalGovernment/Executive/CCC/2003_CN_CONSTITUTION.pdf">Archived</a> March 25, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (pdf file). <i>Cherokee Nation.</i> Retrieved March 5, 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perdue, p. 564.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perdue, pp. 564–565.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perdue, p. 566.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thorpe.ou.edu/constitution/cherokee/index.html">Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090212104623/http://thorpe.ou.edu/constitution/cherokee/index.html">Archived</a> February 12, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>University of Oklahoma Law Center.</i> (retrieved January 16, 2010)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAssociated2009" class="citation web cs1">Associated, The (July 13, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007233624/http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/50644002.html">"Cherokee Nation likely to appeal BIA decision | Indian Country Today | Archive"</a>. Indian Country Today. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/50644002.html">the original</a> on October 7, 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Echoee</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_War_of_1776" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee War of 1776">Cherokee War of 1776</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee%E2%80%93American_wars" title="Cherokee–American wars">Cherokee–American wars</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hightower" title="Battle of Hightower">Battle of Hightower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lindley%27s_Fort" title="Battle of Lindley's Fort">Battle of Lindley's Fort</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nickajack_Expedition" title="Nickajack Expedition">Nickajack Expedition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Cherokee in the American Civil War">American Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Cherokee_Mounted_Rifles" title="1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles">1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_treaties" title="Cherokee treaties">Cherokee treaties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota" title="Treaty of New Echota">Treaty of New Echota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tellico" title="Treaty of Tellico">Treaty of Tellico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkeytown" title="Treaty of Turkeytown">Treaty of Turkeytown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Dewitt%27s_Corner" title="Treaty of Dewitt's Corner">Treaty of Dewitt's Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Hard_Labour" title="Treaty of Hard Labour">Treaty of Hard Labour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lochaber" title="Treaty of Lochaber">Treaty of Lochaber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Hopewell" title="Treaty of Hopewell">Treaty of Hopewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Holston" title="Treaty of Holston">Treaty of Holston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_and_McMinn_Treaty" title="Jackson and McMinn Treaty">Jackson and McMinn Treaty</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transylvania_Colony" title="Transylvania Colony">Transylvania Purchase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chickamauga_Cherokee" title="Chickamauga Cherokee">Chickamauga Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix" title="Cherokee Phoenix">Cherokee Phoenix</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(1794%E2%80%931907)" title="Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)">Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_removal" title="Cherokee removal">Removal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears" title="Trail of Tears">Trail of Tears</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act" title="Indian Removal Act">Indian Removal Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_descent" title="Cherokee descent">Cherokee descent</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Brown_Grant_Deeds" title="Jacob Brown Grant Deeds">Jacob Brown Grant Deeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Cherokees" title="Texas Cherokees">Texas Cherokees</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Heritage_Center" title="Cherokee Heritage Center">Heritage Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Preservation_Foundation" title="Cherokee Preservation Foundation">Cherokee Preservation Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_Warriors_Society" title="Cherokee Nation Warriors Society">Warriors Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Keetoowah_Society" title="Original Keetoowah Society">Original Keetoowah Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keetoowah_Nighthawk_Society" title="Keetoowah Nighthawk Society">Keetoowah Nighthawk Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Youth_Choir" title="Cherokee National Youth Choir">Youth Choir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_heritage_groups" title="Cherokee heritage groups">Heritage groups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Southwest_Township_(Albuquerque,_New_Mexico)" title="Cherokee Southwest Township (Albuquerque, New Mexico)">Cherokee Southwest Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oconaluftee_Indian_Village" title="Oconaluftee Indian Village">Oconaluftee Indian Village</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Unto_These_Hills" title="Unto These Hills">Unto These Hills</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Education <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Female_Seminary" title="Cherokee Female Seminary">Female Seminary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Male_Seminary" title="Cherokee Male Seminary">Male Seminary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Central_Schools" title="Cherokee Central Schools">Cherokee Central Schools</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_High_School_(North_Carolina)" title="Cherokee High School (North Carolina)">Cherokee High School</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sequoyah Schools <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah_High_School_(Cherokee_County,_Oklahoma)" title="Sequoyah High School (Cherokee County, Oklahoma)">Sequoyah High School</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics and law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principal_Chiefs_of_the_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee">Principal Chiefs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_Law" title="Blood Law">Blood Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amerindian_slave_ownership#Cherokee" title="Amerindian slave ownership">Slavery</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1842_Slave_Revolt_in_the_Cherokee_Nation" title="1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation">1842 revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_freedmen_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee freedmen controversy">freedmen controversy</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_v._Georgia" title="Cherokee Nation v. Georgia">Cherokee Nation v. Georgia</a></i> (1831)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia" title="Worcester v. Georgia">Worcester v. Georgia</a></i> (1832)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cherokee_Tobacco" title="The Cherokee Tobacco">The Cherokee Tobacco</a> case</i> (1871)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_of_Oklahoma_v._Leavitt" title="Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt">Cherokee Nation v. Leavitt</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Commission" title="Cherokee Commission">Cherokee Commission</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Outlet" title="Cherokee Outlet">Cherokee Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Strip_(Kansas)" title="Cherokee Strip (Kansas)">in Kansas</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah_Constitutional_Convention" title="Sequoyah Constitutional Convention">Sequoyah Constitutional Convention</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns and<br /> villages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historic_Cherokee_settlements" title="Historic Cherokee settlements">Cherokee Towns (pre-Removal)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Long_Island_(Tennessee)" title="Long Island (Tennessee)">Amoyeligunahita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brasstown,_North_Carolina" title="Brasstown, North Carolina">Brasstown</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chatuga_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chatuga (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Chatuga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilhowee_(Cherokee_town)" title="Chilhowee (Cherokee town)">Chilhowee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chota_(Cherokee_town)" title="Chota (Cherokee town)">Chota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conasauga,_Georgia" title="Conasauga, Georgia">Conasauga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Too-Cowee" title="Too-Cowee">Cowee</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coyotee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coyotee (page does not exist)">Coyotee</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crowtown,_Alabama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crowtown, Alabama (page does not exist)">Crowtown</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dirt_town_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dirt town (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Dirt town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ducktown,_Tennessee" title="Ducktown, Tennessee">Ducktown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rome,_Georgia" title="Rome, Georgia">Etowah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frogtown_Creek" title="Frogtown Creek">Frogtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Hiwassee" title="Great Hiwassee">Hiwassee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiwassee_Island" title="Hiwassee Island">Hiwassee Island</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Island_town_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Island town (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Island town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isunigu" title="Isunigu">Isunigu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joara" title="Joara">Joara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keowee" title="Keowee">Keowee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kituwa" title="Kituwa">Kituwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sugartown" title="Sugartown">Kulsetsiyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Swamp_Site" title="Long Swamp Site">Long Swamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mialoquo_(Cherokee_town)" title="Mialoquo (Cherokee town)">Mialoquo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nacoochee_Mound" title="Nacoochee Mound">Nacoochee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nantahala,_North_Carolina" title="Nantahala, North Carolina">Nantahala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Echota" title="New Echota">New</a><a href="/wiki/New_Town,_Georgia" title="New Town, Georgia">Echota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nickajack" title="Nickajack">Nickajack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikwasi" title="Nikwasi">Nikwasi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nununyi" title="Nununyi">Nununyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocoee,_Tennessee" title="Ocoee, Tennessee">Ocoee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oconee_County,_South_Carolina" title="Oconee County, South Carolina">Oconee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oostanaula,_Georgia" title="Oostanaula, Georgia">Oostanaula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Clay,_Georgia" title="Red Clay, Georgia">Red Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citico_(Cherokee_town)" title="Citico (Cherokee town)">Settico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spikebuck_Town_Mound_and_Village_Site" title="Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site">Spike Bucktown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tallassee_(Cherokee_town)" title="Tallassee (Cherokee town)">Talisi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Talulah_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Talulah (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Talulah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanasi" title="Tanasi">Tanasi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Tellico" title="Great Tellico">Tellico</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomassee_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tomassee (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Tomassee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomotley" title="Tomotley">Tomotley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toqua_(Tennessee)" title="Toqua (Tennessee)">Toqua</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toxoway_(Cherokee_town)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toxoway (Cherokee town) (page does not exist)">Toxoway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Elmo_Historic_District_(Chattanooga,_Tennessee)" title="St. Elmo Historic District (Chattanooga, Tennessee)">Tsatanugi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuckasegee,_North_Carolina" title="Tuckasegee, North Carolina">Tuckasegee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tugaloo" title="Tugaloo">Tugaloo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkeytown_(Cherokee_town)" title="Turkeytown (Cherokee town)">Turkeytown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtletown,_Tennessee" title="Turtletown, Tennessee">Turtletown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuskegee_(Cherokee_town)" title="Tuskegee (Cherokee town)">Tuskegee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiteside,_Tennessee" title="Whiteside, Tennessee">Running Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willstown_(Cherokee_town)" title="Willstown (Cherokee town)">Titsohili</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(1794%E2%80%931907)" title="Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)">Cherokee Nations</a></li> <li>Western Cherokee Nation <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma" title="Tahlequah, Oklahoma">Tahlequah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahlonteeskee,_Oklahoma" title="Tahlonteeskee, Oklahoma">Tahlonteeskee</a></li></ul></li> <li>Eastern Band <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee,_North_Carolina" title="Cherokee, North Carolina">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qualla_Boundary" title="Qualla Boundary">Qualla Boundary</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Landmarks and<br /> memorial sites</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Capitol" title="Cherokee National Capitol">Cherokee National Capitol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Removal_Memorial_Park" title="Cherokee Removal Memorial Park">Cherokee Removal Memorial Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chieftains_Museum" title="Chieftains Museum">Chieftains Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Cherokee_Female_Seminary_Site" title="First Cherokee Female Seminary Site">First Cherokee Female Seminary Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judaculla_Rock" title="Judaculla Rock">Judaculla Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Island_(Tennessee)" title="Long Island (Tennessee)">Long Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ross_House_(Rossville,_Georgia)" title="John Ross House (Rossville, Georgia)">John Ross House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross%27s_Landing" title="Ross's Landing">Ross's Landing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah%27s_Cabin" title="Sequoyah's Cabin">Sequoyah's Cabin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tellico_Blockhouse" title="Tellico Blockhouse">Tellico Blockhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trail_of_Tears_State_Park" title="Trail of Tears State Park">Trail of Tears State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brainerd_Mission" title="Brainerd Mission">Brainerd Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rattlesnake_Springs" title="Rattlesnake Springs">Rattlesnake Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Cass" title="Fort Cass">Fort Cass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Clay_State_Historic_Park" title="Red Clay State Historic Park">Red Clay State Historic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hair_Conrad_Cabin" title="Hair Conrad Cabin">Hair Conrad Cabin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Ward_Tomb" title="Nancy Ward Tomb">Nancy Ward Tomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blythe_Ferry" title="Blythe Ferry">Blythe Ferry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bussell_Island" title="Bussell Island">Bussell Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Vann_House_Historic_Site" title="Chief Vann House Historic Site">Chief Vann House Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mantle_Rock_Archeological_District" title="Mantle Rock Archeological District">Mantle Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Cherokee_People" title="Museum of the Cherokee People">Museum of the Cherokee People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" title="Asheville, North Carolina">Untokiasdiyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standing_Stone_State_Park" title="Standing Stone State Park">Standing</a> <a href="/wiki/Monterey,_Tennessee" title="Monterey, Tennessee">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ball_Ground,_Georgia" title="Ball Ground, Georgia">Stick Ball Grounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cullasaja_River" title="Cullasaja River">Cullasaja River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuckasegee_River" title="Tuckasegee River">Tuckasegee River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oconaluftee_(Great_Smoky_Mountains)" title="Oconaluftee (Great Smoky Mountains)">Oconaluftee valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oconaluftee_River" title="Oconaluftee River">Oconaluftee River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abrams_Creek_(Tennessee)" title="Abrams Creek (Tennessee)">Abrams Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sycamore_Shoals" title="Sycamore Shoals">Sycamore Shoals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trading_Path" title="Trading Path">The Great Trading Path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Indian_Warpath" title="Great Indian Warpath">The Great War Path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiwassee_River_Heritage_Center" title="Hiwassee River Heritage Center">Hiwassee River Heritage Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatata" title="Chatata">Chatata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townsend,_Tennessee" title="Townsend, Tennessee">Tuckaleechee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith_National_Historic_Site" title="Fort Smith National Historic Site"> Fort Smith Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Royal_State_Park" title="Port Royal State Park">Port Royal State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes_Museum" title="Five Civilized Tribes Museum">Five Civilized Tribes Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murphy,_North_Carolina" title="Murphy, North Carolina">Tlanusiyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Path" title="Cherokee Path">Cherokee Path</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Early leaders <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moytoy_of_Tellico" title="Moytoy of Tellico">Moytoy of Tellico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attakullakulla" title="Attakullakulla">Attakullakulla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amouskositte" title="Amouskositte">Amouskositte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conocotocko_I" title="Conocotocko I">Old Hop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moytoy_of_Citico" title="Moytoy of Citico">Moytoy of Citico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conocotocko_II" title="Conocotocko II">Standing Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostenaco" title="Ostenaco">Outacite of Keowee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oconostota" title="Oconostota">Oconostota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savanukah" title="Savanukah">Savanukah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Tassel" title="Old Tassel">Old Tassel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Turkey" title="Little Turkey">Little Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragging_Canoe" title="Dragging Canoe">Dragging Canoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Watts_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Watts (Cherokee chief)">Kunokeski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doublehead" title="Doublehead">Incalatanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagwadihi" title="Tagwadihi">Tagwadihi</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cherokee Nation East (1794–1839) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Fox_(Cherokee_chief)" title="Black Fox (Cherokee chief)">Enola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pathkiller" title="Pathkiller">Pathkiller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Tiger" title="Big Tiger">Big Tiger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Hicks" title="Charles R. Hicks">Charles R. Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hicks_(Cherokee_chief)" title="William Hicks (Cherokee chief)">William Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cherokee Nation West (1810–1839) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Bowl_(Cherokee_chief)" title="The Bowl (Cherokee chief)">The Bowl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takatoka" title="Takatoka">Degadoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahlonteeskee_(Cherokee_chief)" title="Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee chief)">Tahlonteeskee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jolly" title="John Jolly">John Jolly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Houston" title="Sam Houston">Sam Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Looney_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Looney (Cherokee chief)">John Looney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rogers_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Rogers (Cherokee chief)">John Rogers</a></li></ul></li> <li>Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (1824–present) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yonaguska" title="Yonaguska">Yonaguska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Holland_Thomas" title="William Holland Thomas">William Holland Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimrod_Jarrett_Smith" title="Nimrod Jarrett Smith">Tsaladihi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Parker" title="Gerard Parker">Gerard Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joyce_Dugan" title="Joyce Dugan">Joyce Dugan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Lambert" title="Patrick Lambert">Patrick Lambert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Sneed" title="Richard Sneed">Richard Sneed</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory (1839–1907) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Downing" title="Lewis Downing">Lewis Downing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stand_Watie" title="Stand Watie">Degataga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_P._Ross" title="William P. Ross">William P. Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thompson_(Cherokee_chief)" title="Charles Thompson (Cherokee chief)">Utselata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Bushyhead" title="Dennis Bushyhead">Dennis Bushyhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_B._Mayes" title="Joel B. Mayes">Joel B. Mayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Harris" title="Johnson Harris">Johnson Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Houston_Mayes" title="Samuel Houston Mayes">Samuel Houston Mayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buffington" title="Thomas Buffington">Thomas Buffington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Charles_Rogers" title="William Charles Rogers">William Charles Rogers</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cherokee Nation (1975–present) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._B._Milam" title="J. B. Milam">J. B. Milam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._W._Keeler" title="W. W. Keeler">W. W. Keeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross_Swimmer" title="Ross Swimmer">Ross Swimmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller" title="Wilma Mankiller">Wilma Mankiller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Byrd_(Cherokee_Nation_Principal_Chief)" title="Joe Byrd (Cherokee Nation Principal Chief)">Joe Byrd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chad_Smith_(politician)" title="Chad Smith (politician)">Chadwick "Corntassel" Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_John_Baker" title="Bill John Baker">Bill John Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Hoskin_Jr." title="Chuck Hoskin Jr.">Chuck Hoskin Jr.</a></li></ul></li> <li>United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (1939–present) <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_L._Gordon_(Cherokee_chief)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James L. Gordon (Cherokee chief) (page does not exist)">James L. Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hair_(Cherokee_chief)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Hair (Cherokee chief) (page does not exist)">John W. Hair</a></li></ul></li> <li>Other notable Cherokee <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Ward" title="Nancy Ward">Nancy Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsali" title="Tsali">Tsali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahlonteeskee_(Cherokee_warrior)" title="Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee warrior)">Tahlonteeskee (warrior)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtle-at-Home" title="Turtle-at-Home">Turtle-at-Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junaluska" title="Junaluska">Junaluska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goingsnake" title="Goingsnake">Goingsnake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)" title="Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)">Elias Boudinot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wauhatchie" title="Wauhatchie">Wauhatchie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Vann" title="James Vann">James Vann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Vann_(Cherokee_leader)" title="David Vann (Cherokee leader)">David Vann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Vann" title="Joseph Vann">Joseph Vann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Benge" title="Bob Benge">Bob Benge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitepath" title="Whitepath">Nunnahitsunega</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Christie" title="Ned Christie">Ned Christie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Martin_(judge)" title="John Martin (judge)">John Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin" title="Markwayne Mullin">Markwayne Mullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yvette_Herrell" title="Yvette Herrell">Yvette Herrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_Ridge" title="Major Ridge">Major Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_McIntosh" title="Jenny McIntosh">Jenny McIntosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Sixkiller" title="Sam Sixkiller">Sam Sixkiller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_V._Rogers" title="Clement V. 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