She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.

In this capacity he negotiated several treaties, one of the most important being with Cherokee chief John Ross, which was concluded in 1861.

Later known as Elias Boudinot, he was editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the nation's first newspaper, which was published in Cherokee and English.

This idea was proposed as early as 1803, by Jefferson, but was not used in actual treaties until 1817, when the Cherokee agreed to cede two large tracts of land in the east for one of equal size in present-day Arkansas.

It was negotiated and signed by a small faction of Cherokee tribal members, not the tribal leadership, on December 29, 1835.

The result was Beijing Jeep Corporation, Ltd., in partnership with Beijing Automobile Industry Corporation, to produce the Jeep Cherokee ( XJ ) in Beijing.

Its engine was later put in the Grand Cherokee ( WK ) SRT-8

His father was a Cherokee Indian, and his mother was a former slave of mixed Cherokee, African-American, and French-American descent.

Franklin Gritts was a Cherokee artist who taught students from many tribes at Haskell Institute ( now Haskell Indian Nations University ) in the 1940s, the Golden Age of Native American painters.

Lillian Gross, described as a " Mixed Blood " by the Smithsonian source, was of Cherokee and European-American heritage.

A reinforcement militia, however, was defeated by Mexican soldiers and Texas Cherokee Indians on September 18 during the Dawson Massacre.

Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.

He became an adoptive father to Houston, giving him the Cherokee name of Colonneh, meaning " the Raven ".

Its name is from the Cherokee language, which means " edible tree ".

Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States:

Oconee County takes its name from the Cherokee word " Ae-quo-nee " meaning " land beside the water.

However, the residents protested and the name was changed to Rogers County, after Clem Vann Rogers, a mixed-blood Cherokee rancher and father of Will Rogers.

Before statehood, Kay County was formed from the “ Cherokee Strip ” or “ Cherokee Outlet ” and originally designated as county “ K .” Its name means simply that.

Cullowhee: The Cherokee name for the valley was corrupted from its original name into Cullowhee, the original meaning either " Valley of the Lilies " or " Valley of the Buzzards.

What became Blountsville appears on an 1819 map as the mixed Creek / Cherokee Indian village of " Wassausey " ( meaning Bear Meat Cabin, the name of an Indian translator who lived there ).

Its name derives from " friendship crossing " in Cherokee.

Local myth claimed the town's name " Fredonia " was for the Republic of Fredonia movement of Mexican Texas in the 1820s by a group of Arkansas Cherokee Indians settled near Nacogdoches, Texas.

The name was changed to Cherokee Courthouse in 1833.

As its name suggests, it is just east of Ellijay, Georgia, the site of a Cherokee settlement, one of several with the name.

In Cherokee the name is properly rendered " Elatseyi " ( abbreviated to " Elatse "), which can be translated as " green verdant earth ", suggesting fresh-springing vegetation.

In addition to the Cherokee town in Georgia, there were Cherokee towns of this name on, one, the Keowee River in South Carolina, two, on the Little Tennessee River at Ellijay Creek, and three, on Ellejoy Creek of the Little River near present-day Maryville, Tennessee.

The origin of the town name excites considerable speculation, but conventional wisdom holds that Ellijay is an Anglicized form of a Cherokee word, perhaps meaning " place of green things " or " many waters.

Its name comes from the Cherokee word Ayuhwasi, which means a meadow.

Washta's name dates back to 1868 when a local man named Whisman turned his farm into a trading post / mail stop for the freight train going from Correctionville, Iowa to Cherokee, Iowa.

Once known by the Cherokee name Gunahita, meaning long, the Valley River begins near the Topton community in the far eastern corner of the county, and meanders southeasterly until it meets the Hiwassee River below Murphy.

The town's present day name owes to Mr. George Hayes, who was running for representative from Cherokee County in the fall election of 1860.

The town's name comes from a Cherokee word, " atsila ", meaning fire.

Local legend states the name is derived from Cherokee words meaning ' just two ' or ' two is enough.

After Corbett was dropped from the show after the fourth season ( allegedly due to contract disputes between Universal, which owned her contract, and Cherokee Productions, Garner's company ), a new legal adviser ( John " Coop " Cooper, a disbarred attorney who befriends Jim ), and a new romantic interest ( Kathryn Harrold as Dr. Megan Dougherty ) for Rockford were added.

The show was written by co-creator Cannell ( 36 episodes ); one of the show's producers and Garner's partner at Cherokee Productions, Juanita Bartlett ( 34 episodes ; also Scarecrow and Mrs. King and In the Heat of the Night ); David Chase ( 16 episodes ; Northern Exposure and The Sopranos ); and Roy Huggins ( as John Thomas James ), among others.

The EPA subsequently designated AMC's compact Cherokee as a " light truck ", and the company marketed the vehicle to everyday drivers.

Then, in 1778, the Richard Henderson Company was granted in recognition of the $ 50, 000 paid by the company to the Cherokee Indians in the Treaty of Watauga.

The land company gathered 1, 200 Cherokee in council at Sycamore Shoals ( located at present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee ) to hear their proposal for purchase.

While Jim initially tried his hand at farming, he would grow restless and fell in with bad company: the Starr clan, a Cherokee Indian family notorious for whiskey, cattle, and horse thievery in the Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ), as well as his wife's old friends the James and Younger gangs.

Historian J. G. M. Ramsey credited Hugh Lawson White's company with the killing of the Cherokee chief, King Fisher, and White's granddaughter and biographer, Nancy Scott, stated that White fired the fatal shot.

He saw much of Cherokee society as he encountered the full-blood Cherokee who frequented his father's trading company.

At this time, his IT service company had an ongoing contract with Cherokee County of Georgia to maintain and upgrade the 911 center security.

He performed several port scans on Cherokee County servers to check their security and eventually port scanned a web server monitored by another IT company, provoking a tiff which ended up in a tribunal.

The company still has its primary distribution center in Chariton ; a second distribution center is located in Cherokee, Iowa.

Bernsen is the founder and head of Team Cherokee Productions, an independent production company that, similar to Public Media Works, develops, produces and markets films and television shows for targeted fan bases.

The Cherokee Nation controls Cherokee Nation Entertainment, a gaming and hospitality company with several thousand employees in Eastern Oklahoma, as well as Cherokee Nation Industries, a defense contractor.

But, no Cherokee were listed in the record of Barnwell's company.

The Wagoneer and Cherokee names were applied to the new, much-smaller and more fuel-efficient unibody XJ platform in 1984, but high demand prompted the company to keep the old SJ-body Wagoneer in production.

In August 2007 the then publicly-traded company was purchased for US $ 38 million by a group of investors led by C. Stephen Lynn, the former Chairman of Shoney's who also previously served as Sonic's Chief Executive Officer, and Reid M. Zeising of Cherokee Advisors.

The SLRC, was the first law firm to promote a novel legal theory developed by Lyons that combined First Amendment protection with an interpretation of “ National Origin ” provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would afford federal legal protection for what Lyons termed “ Confederate Southern Americans .” Using this interpretation of Civil Rights law, the SLRC undertook cases on behalf of Federal Aviation Administration workers in Florida, utility company employees in South Carolina, workers at a DuPont plant in Virginia ( the " DuPont Seven "), and Cherokee students in Alabama.