Roger Amerman, Marcus ' brother, and Martha Berry, Cherokee, have effectively revived Southeastern beadwork, a style that had been lost because of forced removal from tribes to Indian Territory.

Many faulty etymologies have been devised for the word, including one by a British officer in 1789 who said it derived from the Cherokee word eankke, meaning " coward " – but no such word exists in Cherokee.

When General Sumner refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment-which had priority-to disembark from the transport Cherokee on the grounds that the lieutenant commanding the Detachment did not have the rank to enforce his priority, Shafter had to personally intervene, returning to the ship in a steam launch to enforce his demand that the guns come off immediately.

Of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ( UKB ) have headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

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.

Since the Great Lakes region was the core of Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that the Cherokee migrated South from that region.

In 1735 the Cherokee were estimated to have sixty-four towns and villages, and 6, 000 fighting men.

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.

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 US required the 1866 Treaty to provide for the emancipation of all Cherokee slaves, and full citizenship to all Cherokee freedmen and all free African Americans who chose to continue to reside within tribal lands, so that they " shall have all the rights of native Cherokees.

Many Cherokee Freedmen have been active politically within the tribe.

Many words, however, have been borrowed from the English language, such as gasoline, which in Cherokee is ().

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.

Controversy arose over both the adoption and Depp's portrayal of a Native American character, as Depp was not raised in, nor has confirmable ancestry from, a Native American community, though he has said he " guesses " he may have some distant Cherokee or Creek ancestry.

The latter forced relocations have sometimes been referred to as a " death march ", in particular with reference to the Cherokee march across the Midwest in 1838, which occurred on a predominantly land route.

The Cherokee who remained in the county after Indian Removal in the 1830s have worked at reviving their culture in the last thirty years.

Numerous Cherokee and mixed-race European-Cherokee descendants, sometimes called " Black Dutch ", have stayed in the Lawrence County area.

In 1829, gold was discovered at Dahlonega, on Cherokee land claimed by Georgia.

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.

Palestinians ), other Latin American nations, North Americans ( about tens of thousands claimed Cherokee ancestry from displaced persons from Indian Territory in the USA in the 1880s ) and East Asians ( mostly Chinese and Koreans ) taken place in the Coquimbo region.

The area was originally claimed by Britain as part of the Clarendon settlements of the Province of Carolina, although actually populated at the time by the Cherokee people of the " Overhill towns.

What is today Blount County was for many thousands of years Indian territory, passed down to the Cherokee tribe that claimed the land upon the arrival of white settlers in the late 18th century.

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.

After England claimed South Carolina as a colony, the Cherokee traded with the British.

By the time Euro-American explorers and long hunters arrived in the Clinch valley in the mid-18th century, what is now Anderson County was part of a vast stretch of land claimed by the Cherokee.

By the time the first Euro-American settlers arrived in the area in the late 18th century, the Cherokee claimed the valley as part of their hunting grounds.

In later years, the part of Middle Tennessee that was to become the Coopertown community was claimed as territorial hunting grounds by both the Cherokee and the Chickasaw.

* Ward Churchill, a former professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado who claimed to be Cherokee, although his genealogy shows no non-white ancestry.

Of the Jackson forced the Creek to cede, which was claimed by the Cherokee Nation, which had also allied with the United States.

Jones later claimed partial Cherokee ancestry through his mother, though this was likely to have been false according to his maternal second cousin Barbara Shaffer.

He presented himself as a Cherokee from Oklahoma and claimed he was a West Point graduate with the Croix de Guerre earned in World War I.

According to some sources, NBC and Universal claimed the show was generating a deficit of several million dollars, a staggering amount for a nighttime show in those days, although Garner and his production team Cherokee Productions claimed the show always turned a profit.

The men hoped to establish a British proprietary colony by purchasing Kentucky land from the Cherokee, who had settled much of the south and southeastern Kentucky areas and still claimed hunting rights in the abandoned Shawnee lands.

In October 1822, Calhoun requested that the Cherokee relinquish their land claimed by Georgia, in fulfillment of the United States ' obligation under the Compact of 1802.

The name was changed in 1911 to the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, and again in 1913 to the Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County, tracking the legislature's designation for the Indians of the county, who at one time claimed Cherokee descent.

Fulson stated that he was of Cherokee ancestry through his father, but he also claimed Choctaw ancestry.

Most of the land that these Europeans claimed had long been the home of Catawba and Cherokee Indians.

Researchers in the 19th century recorded conversations with elders who recounted an oral tradition of the Cherokee people's migrating south from the Great Lakes region in ancient times.

The Cherokee arrived later, descended from a different people, but they occupied some of the ancient Mississippian sites and were observed by the Spanish.

The Cherokee Heritage Center, of Park Hill, Oklahoma hosts a reproduction of an ancient Cherokee Village, Adams Rural Village ( including 19th-century buildings ), Nofire Farms, and the Cherokee Family Research Center for genealogy.

After removal, some Native Americans remained in their ancient homelands-the Choctaw are found in Mississippi, the Seminole in Florida, the Creek in Alabama, and the Cherokee in North Carolina.

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.

The Great Indian Warpath passed through what is now Newport en route to the ancient Cherokee hunting grounds of northeastern Tennessee.

This aspect of his extensive work in diverse languages such as Kota, Hidatsa, and Cherokee, and of course Hebrew ( ancient and modern ), as well as English, did not begin to see publication until his " Culture and Style " and " Discourse Analysis " papers in 1952.

The Treaty of Sycamore Shoals was just one of several treaties that disenfranchised the Cherokee from their ancient lands in Upper Cherokee areas.

The Calicuas, an ancient most northern Cherokee, migrated or was pushed from the Central Ohio Valley onto the north eastern slopes of the Alleghenies of the ancient Messawomeake, Iroquois tradesmen to 1630s Kent Island, by 1710 maps.

Watie was born in Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation ( now Calhoun, Georgia ) on December 12, 1806, the son of Uwatie ( Cherokee for " the ancient one "), a full-blood Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, daughter of a white father and Cherokee mother.

In 1810, John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee, wrote to his friend Major Amos Stoddard about a conversation he had had in 1782 with the old Cherokee chief Oconostota concerning ancient fortifications built along the Alabama River.

* Chilhowee ( Cherokee town ), an ancient Cherokee village in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee

Payne believed his research demonstrated that the Cherokee were one of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.

The seven-pointed star represents the seven ancient clans of the Cherokee people.