The Hindu, Thai, Hebrew, Islamic, Tibetan, Mayan, Ani-yvnwiya ( Cherokee ), Neo-pagan, Germanic, Celtic, and the traditional Chinese calendars are all based on the phases of the Moon.

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

One example of this are the Cherokee Freedmen.

One exception can be modern Cherokee who are predominantly monotheistic but apparently not panentheistic ( as the two are not mutually exclusive ); yet in older Cherokee traditions many observe both aspects of pantheism and panentheism, and are often not beholden to exclusivity, encompassing other spiritual traditions without contradiction, a common trait among some tribes in the Americas.

Sun goddesses are found around the world ; in Arabia ( Al-Lat ), Australia ( Bila, Walo ), India ( Bisal-Mariamna, Bomong, Kn Sgni ) and Sri Lanka ( Pattini ); among the Hittites ( Wurusemu ), Egyptians ( Sekhmet ) and Babylonians ( Shapash ); in Native America, among the Cherokee ( Unelanuhi ), Natchez ( Wal Sil ), Inuit ( Malina ) and Miwok ( Hekoolas ).

However, there are exceptions: Colloquial Samoan lacks the coronal, and several North American languages, such as the northern Iroquoian and southern Iroquoian languages ( i. e., Cherokee ), lack the labial.

Some alternatives, such as Lighttpd, Hiawatha or Cherokee, are fully functional and lightweight.

* May 26 – USA: The people of the Cherokee Nation are forcibly relocated during the Trail of Tears.

Examples are Tlingit, Eyak ( both Na-Dené ), Wichita ( Caddoan ), and the Iroquoian languages except Cherokee.

The Cherokee (; ) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas, and East Tennessee ).

The UKB are mostly descendants of " Old Settlers ", Cherokee who migrated to Arkansas and Oklahoma about 1817.

The Cherokee Nation are related to the people who were forcibly relocated there in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act.

In addition, there are Cherokee bands in the Southeast that are recognized as tribes by state governments, such as the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, but not the U. S. federal government.

There are two prevailing views about Cherokee origins.

One is that the Cherokee, an Iroquoian-speaking people, are relative latecomers to Southern Appalachia, who may have migrated in late prehistoric times from northern areas, the traditional territory of the later Haudenosaunee five nations and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.

Late 20th-century studies have shown conclusively instead that the weight of archeological evidence at the sites shows they are unquestionably related to ancestors of Muskogean peoples rather than to the Cherokee.

The Cherokee considered warfare a polluting activity, and warriors required the purification by the priestly class before participants could reintegrate into normal village life.

Andrew Jackson said the removal policy was an effort to prevent the Cherokee from facing extinction as a people, which he considered the fate that " the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware " had suffered.

They would be born outside the clans and traditionally were not considered Cherokee citizens.

Sandwiched between unfriendly natives to the west, Cherokee, Shawnee and Creek Native American tribes, and indifference on the part of English officials in Charleston, who considered residents of the Backcountry uncivilized, the early settlers frequently found themselves targets of Native American raids, and the local militia became an early police force, patrolling the area for possible Native American or slave troubles and controlling the seemingly numerous outlaw bands which roamed the region.

The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole — that were considered civilized by Anglo-European settlers during the colonial and early federal period because they adopted many of the colonists ' customs and had generally good relations with their neighbors.

Given the controversy over the struggle over territory, a vocal minority of Cherokee and a generation of political leaders in Washington considered Ross to be dictatorial, greedy, and an " aristocratic leader sought to defraud " the Cherokee Nation.

Because he was born to a Cherokee mother, Ross was considered to be a member of her Bird Clan by birth.

" The Cherokee were considered sovereign enough to legally resist the government of Georgia, and were encouraged to do so.

He frequently spoke on the lecture circuit about Cherokee issues and development in the West, and was considered a prominent orator.

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbade English settlement on Indian lands, and as the Watauga settlements were in Cherokee territory, the British considered them illegal.

As the fad progressed, manufacturers like Candie's stretched the envelope of what was considered too outrageous to wear, while others, like Famolare and Cherokee of California, introduced " comfort " platforms, designed to combine the added height of platforms with the support and comfort of sneakers, or even orthopedic shoes, and by the time the fad finally fizzled in the late 1980s, girls and women of all ages were wearing them.

In Dr. James Duke's " Handbook of Edible Weeds ," he notes that the Kiowa Indian tribe chewed wood sorrel to alleviate thirst on long trips, that the Potawatomi Indians cooked it with sugar to make a dessert, the Algonquin Indians considered it an aphrodisiac, the Cherokee tribe ate wood sorrel to alleviate mouth sores and a sore throat, and the Iroquois ate wood sorrel to help with cramps, fever and nausea.

Although the Six Nations of New York had previously recognised English rights southeast of the Ohio River at the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, they continued to claim ownership ( by conquest ) over all land as far south as the Tennessee River — which they still considered their boundary with the Cherokee and other " Southern " tribes.

Nancy Ward is not only remembered as an important figure to the Cherokee people but is also considered an early pioneer for women in American politics as she advocated for a woman's voice during a turbulent period in her tribe's history.

It was considered part of the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century prior to certain treaties and Indian Removal in the 1830s.

Madoc's group was considered to be the " moon-eyed " people of Cherokee lore.

Others considered his work biased by his attempt to show the " Hebrew " origins of Cherokee religion.

In the early 21st century these rules have been used to exclude people who had previously been considered members, such as in the case of the Cherokee Freedmen.

North Alabama is a region of the U. S. state of Alabama, generally considered to include 12 counties: Cherokee, Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston, with a combined population of 1, 000, 985, or 20. 94 % of the state's population as of 2010 Census.

In 1787 the area was Cherokee territory and not considered part of either state.

The Cherokee considered White a man of honor, and the Creeks praised his " goodness.

Kituwah also is considered to be the original name of the Cherokee people.

John Rollin Ridge ( Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867 ), a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist.

The Cherokee syllabary generally uses dummy vowels for coda consonants, but also has a segmental grapheme for / s /, which can be used both as a coda and in an initial / sC / consonant cluster.

With the introduction of more luxurious models and a much more powerful 4-liter engine, sales of the Cherokee increased even higher as the price of gasoline fell, and the term " sport utility vehicle " began to be used in the national press for the first time.

The Agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache signed with the Cherokee Commission October 6 – 21, 1892, further reduced their reservation to at a cost of $ 1. 25 per acre ($ 308. 88 / km² ), with an allotment of per person per tribe to be held in trust.

In 1831, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole ( sometimes collectively referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes ) were living as autonomous nations in what would be called the American Deep South.

Contingents that were led by conductors from the U. S. Army included those led by Edward Deas, who was claimed to be a sympathizer for the Cherokee plight.

The word " Suwannee " may either be a corruption of the Spanish San Juan (" Saint John ") or from the Cherokee sawani (" echo river ").

:... very active in the persecution of the Cherokee Indians and not at all the sort of chap who should be celebrated as a hero.

On March 16, 2006 Duke Power announced that a Cherokee County site had been selected for a potential new nuclear power plant, to be called the William States Lee III Nuclear Generating Station.

This site will be adjacent to the old Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant site, which was never completed and ultimately abandoned.

Today, Delaware County continues to be recognized by the Cherokee Nation as the Delaware District.

The Cherokee revered the Great Spirit, said by some sources to be called Yowa but in the ancient legends simply referred to as Unelanuhi or " the Apportioner ," who presided over all things and created the Earth.

In April 1974, parts of Cherokee County were affected by a historic weather event-the Super Outbreak of tornadoes, which affected parts of 13 states and was the largest such event to be recorded in the U. S.

In the late 1830s, the Trail of Tears, over which many Cherokee and other tribes moved on their way to Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory reservations, formed part of the roadway that would later be the Wire Road.

Adairsville used to be a small Cherokee village named after Chief Walter ( John ) S. Adair, a Scottish settler who married a Cherokee Indian woman before the removal of the Cherokee in 1838.

Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the site where Canton would be founded lay in the heart of the Cherokee Nation.

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

The village of Kituhwa, which the Cherokee believed to be their oldest village, was located along the Tuckasegee immediately upstream from Bryson City.

Shortly after his proposal, Deputy U. S. Marshall Arthur Green motioned the town be named after a Cherokee Chief named Wakita ( pronounced Wok-ih-taw ).

Some had sufficient Cherokee ancestry to be classified as Cherokee ; this has been one of the issues since the late twentieth century and the membership controversy of Cherokee Freedmen.