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Top: Society: Ethnicity: The_Americas: Indigenous: Native_Americans: Tribes,_Nations_and_Bands: C: Cherokee
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There are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Sites about other Cherokee tribes should go in this subcategory: http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Indigenous_People/Native_Americans/Tribes,_Nations_and_Bands/C/Cherokee/Communities,_Clans,_Bands,_Tribes_or_Nations
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'Cherokee' is Creek for 'Brother of another tongue' written in Cherokee as tsa-la-gi. Traditionally we Cherokee called ourselves the Aniyunwiya literally translated as 'the Principle People' but meaning 'God's People'.
This section is for all Cherokee communities, clans, bands, tribes and nations.
If is it clear that a Cherokee entity is fraudulently claiming to be a community, clan, band, tribe or nation in order to commit a fraud against the Cherokee people, submit that link to http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Indigenous_People/Native_Americans/Tribes,_Nations_and_Bands/C/Cherokee/Frauds,_New_Age,_and_Exploiters/.
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The best-known episode in Cherokee history was also the worst: the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee people from their ancestral home in the southeast to Oklahoma. The Cherokee had been one of the most acculturated of Indian societies--an urban, Christian, agricultural, largely intermarried people who supported the United States against other tribes. In the end this was all for nothing. Though some prominent Americans, such as Davy Crockett and Daniel Webster, spoke against Removal, and though the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, President Andrew Jackson, declaring "Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it," sent in the army. Fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokee and their Indian neighbors (Choctaw, Muskogee, and others) were rounded up and herded to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-1839. Driven from their homes without being allowed to collect their possessions first, even their shoes, these prosperous and largely citified Indians were no better equipped for an 800-mile forced march than a white suburb today would be. Between four and eight thousand died of exposure, starvation, disease, and simple exhaustion along the Trail of Tears.
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