Where did the cherokee live
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Cherokee
Indigenous American people of the southeastern United States
This article is about the Indigenous American people. For tribal administration, see Cherokee Nation. For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation).
Ethnic group
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary as painted by Henry Inman, c. 1830 | |
| 316,049 enrolled tribal citizens (Eastern Band: >13,000, Cherokee Nation: 288,749, United Keetoowah Band: 14,300)[1] 819,105 claimed Cherokee ancestry in the 2010 Census[2] | |
| United States California: large ethnic diaspora community, 22,124 registered tribal citizens[3] South Carolina: 3,428[5] | |
| English, Cherokee | |
| Christianity, Cherokee spiritual beliefs, Animism, Kituhwa, Four Mothers Society,[7] |
The Cherokee (;[8][9]Cherokee: Ꭰ
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Cherokee Indians
The Cherokees, one of the most populous Indian societies in the Southeast during the eighteenth century, played a key role in Georgia’s early history. They were close allies of the British for much of the eighteenth century. During the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and American Revolution (1775-83), a breakdown in relations with the British and then the Americans led to repeated invasions of the Cherokee homeland. The post-revolutionary era witnessed remarkable Cherokee efforts to cope with land encroachments and territorial loss, and to succeed at nation-building. Increased expansion by the United States in the nineteenth century ultimately resulted in the forced removal of most Cherokee peoples to a region west of the Mississippi River.
Cherokee Society
It is important to first identify what made the Cherokees a distinct social group. The Cherokees occupied a common homeland in the southern Appalachian Mountains known in Georgia as the Blue Ridge, including much of the northern third of the land that would become Georgia. They spoke an Iroquoi
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Cherokee history
Cherokee history is the written and oral lore, traditions, and historical record maintained by the living Cherokee people and their ancestors. In the 21st century, leaders of the Cherokee people define themselves as those persons enrolled in one of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, The Cherokee Nation, and The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians.
The first live predominantly in North Carolina, the traditional heartland of the people; the latter two tribes are based in what is now Oklahoma, and was Indian Territory when their ancestors were forcibly relocated there from the Southeast. The Cherokee people have extensive written records, including detailed genealogical records, preserved in the Cherokee language which is written with the Cherokee syllabary, and also in the English language.
Origins
The Cherokee are members of the Iroquoian language-family of North American indigenous peoples, and are believed to have migrated in ancient times from the Great Lakes area, where most of such
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