Precontact Cherokee are considered to be part of the later Pisgah Phase of Southern Appalachia, which lasted from circa 1000 to 1500.

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.

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.

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.

While gold supplies began to dwindle, soon eclipsed by the California Gold Rush, the settlement by White farmers continued and played prominently in the expulsion of Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations from the area.

Led by then-General Andrew Jackson, a coalition of militia from Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, federal troops, White Stick Creek, and the traditional rival Cherokee crushed the outnumbered and out-gunned Red Sticks.

Others explain that Chenoa is a Cherokee word meaning " Dove " or " White Dove.

In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).

The land was opened to White settlement by means of the Cherokee Strip Land Run on September 16, 1893.

White settlers derived the word Brasstown from a translation error of a Cherokee word.

* " Cherokee ", a song by White Lion from their debut album Fight to Survive

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.

* Mahpiya Ska (" White Cloud ") ( Cherokee: ᎤᏁᎬ ᎤᎶᎩᎸ ) is an albino white buffalo born July 10, 1996.

White clover has been used as minor folk medicine by the Cherokee, Iroquois, Mohegan and other Native American tribes for centuries.

According to Goodspeed's History of White County, the Calfkiller River is likely named after a Cherokee chief who lived in the valley when the first white settlers arrived in the area around 1800.

* " Nanye-Hi ( Nancy Ward ) – Cherokee ", by Julia White

D. P. White died October 23, 1903, and is buried in an unknown location, probably in Cherokee County.

The biggest concentration of gold was found in White, Lumpkin, and northern Cherokee counties in Georgia.

White people ( including missionaries and those married to Cherokee ) were forbidden to live in Cherokee country without a state permit, and Cherokee were forbidden to testify in court cases involving European Americans.

The racial makeup of Cherokee was 48 ( 70 %) White, 0 African American, 2 ( 3 %) Native American, 8 ( 12 %) Asian, 0 Pacific Islander, 0 from other races, and 11 ( 16 %) from two or more races.

Catawba is also known under the synonyms Arkansas, Captraube Rot, Catawba Rosa, Catowba Tokay, Cher Kee, Cherokee, Fancher, Francher Kello White, Francher Kells White, Keller's White, Lebanon, Lebanon Seedling, Lichigan, Lincoln, Lincolun, Mammoth Catawba, Meads Seedling, Mecleron, Merceron, Michigan, Muncy, Muncy Pale Red, Municipale Red, Omega, R'd Muncy, Red Muncy, Rose Of Tennessee, Rote Captraube, Sarato A, Saratoga, Singleton, Tekomah, Tokay, Virginia Amber, and White Catawba.

On November 18, White dispatched a force of allied Cherokee under Gideon Morgan to surround the main Hillabee town.