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	Cherokee Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cherokee Indians were eventually forced to sign over much of their land, first to the British and then to the United States.
		Before their arrival, Cades Cove Tn was part of Cherokee Nation, who called the Cove, Tsiyaha or "place of the river otter." Cherokee Indians never lived in the Cove, but used the land as its summer hunting ground for river otters, elk and bison.
		William Thomas purchased all of the 57,000-acre reservation known as the Qualla Boundary in 1860 for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
	www.smokymtnmall.com /mall/cindians.html (1360 words)

	The proud heritage of the Cherokee Indian
		Though it was the Spanish that brought death and disease to the Cherokee Nation, the Cherokee Indians were blamed for the inability of DeSoto to colonize this part of America.
		An image was created of the Cherokee Indian as one of a vicious savage, and settlers who later came to that area of the country already believed this prejudicial notion.
		Today the Cherokee Indian Nation still survives as a proud and honorable institution, despite the hardships it was put through by explorers and settlers.
	www.indians.org /articles/cherokee-indian.html (324 words)

	Facts for Kids: Cherokee Indians (Cherokees)
		The Cherokees are original residents of the American southeast, particularly Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
		Cherokee chiefs were chosen by a tribal council on the basis of their great deeds for the tribe.
		Cherokee men usually shaved their heads except for a single scalplock, and sometimes they would also wear a porcupine roach.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/cherokee_kids.htm (1858 words)

	Cherokee
		The Cherokee were in the dubious position of fighting the pro-British Iroquois and the pro-French Algonquin at the same time, but they held their own, despite devastating smallpox epidemics in 1738 and 1753 which killed almost half of them.
		Although the Cherokee signed a treaty in 1754 confirming their alliance and allowing the construction of British forts in their territory to defend the colonies, the lingering suspicion remained they were sympathetic to the French.
		Almost 100 Cherokee accompanying a Virginia expedition against the Ohio Shawnee lost their provisions while crossing a river and were abandoned by their white "allies." Angry at this treatment, the Cherokee helped themselves to some of the Virginians' horses and were attacked.
	www.tolatsga.org /Cherokee1.html (3091 words)

	Chickamauga Cherokee Indians - Chickamauga Cherokee Nation Indian Genealogy, Native American Genealogy Arkansas History
		The Cherokee Indians once inhabited great expanses of lands on the American Continent, and the earliest ancestors of the Cherokee were known to control the majority of vital waterways throughout the times known as pre-history.
		The Cherokee was known to exercise dominion over all the territory on the east side of the Alleghany Mountains, including the headwaters of the Yadkin, Catawba, Broad and Savannah Rivers and from there westward the Cherokee claimed the land as far as the Ohio and from there to the headwaters of the Chattahoochee and Alabama.
		This purchase was supposed to protect the Cherokee from further encroachments on their lands by settlers by fixing permant boundries in the region of the North Fork of the Holston River and the headwaters of the Kanawha.
	www.comanchelodge.com /chickamauga-cherokee.html (7524 words)

	Cherokee Indians in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
		The Cherokees had a belief that there were certain beings who came down from on high and formed the world, the moon and the stars.
		The Cherokees believed that those who had been good went to a place where it was always light and pleasant and those who had been bad would go to a place where they would be tortured.
		The Cherokees lacked the long range weaponry that is commonly associated with the Indian wars and the winning of the West simply because that type of weaponry had not yet been developed.
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	The Texas Cherokee,
		The Cherokees are also important in Texas history because they took over the leadership role of the Indian tribes of East Texas from the Caddo.
		The Cherokees, men, women, children and babies, the elderly and sick were all marched at gun point by army troops from Georgia to Indian Territory during the winter of 1839.
		Indians were discriminated against and treated much the same as fl people were treated, even worse in many cases.
	www.texasindians.com /cherokee.htm (2767 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Cherokees were quick to adapt many material elements of European culture to their own society, a characteristic that led to their designation as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes." They established a constitutional government with a senate, a house of representatives, and an elected chief.
		Cherokees were first reported in Texas in 1807, when a small band, probably an offshoot of the Arkansas settlements, established a village on the Red River.
		The Cherokees decided to fight for their land, and the resulting conflict came to be known as the Cherokee War.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/bmc51.html (2418 words)

	The Cherokee Indians in the Dalton, Georgia area
		Early Woodland Indians inhabited the Valley and Ridge section of present-day Georgia between Chatsworth and Dalton, building the wall atop Fort Mountain and eventually mingling with Georgia's first civilization, the Moundbuilders.
		In 1823 the struggle to remove the Creek and the Cherokee became a major political campaign issue, and would continue to be one until The Creek and the Cherokee were gone.
		Georgia, was strongly behind the removal of the Cherokee and he swayed enough members votes to ratify the treaty.
	daltoncvb.com /cherokeeindians.html (398 words)

	The history of American Indians
		American Indians viewed nature as a gift from the Gods which should be revered and treated properly at all times.
		Indians were suddenly forced off of their land and made to relocate.
		While the number of American Indians still living today is much fewer than it was centuries ago, their people still remain strong and proud of who they are and what they have become.
	www.indians.org /articles/american-indians.html (315 words)

	The Cherokee tribes of east and southeast United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today, the Cherokee tribes who are federally recognized (Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) have their headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
		Cherokee tribes that are state recognized have their headquarters in the states of Georgia, Missouri, and Alabama.
		Chief Moytoy of Tellico agreed to be the emperor of Cherokee chiefs in 1730.
	www.indians.org /articles/cherokee-tribes.html (345 words)

	The life of the Crow Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The female Crow Indians covered their legs and wore moccasins while the men’s clothing was a little fancier.
		The Crow Indians were a little different in that women often played very important roles within their tribal community.
		And when they got married, it was the male Crow Indians that accommodated the women and moved in with her and her family.
	www.indians.org /articles/crow-indians.html (332 words)

	Cherokee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cherokee nation was unified from a society of interrelated city-states in the early 18th century under the "Emperor" Moytoy, with the aid of an unofficial English envoy, Sir Alexander Cumming.
		Cherokees were displaced from their ancestral lands in North Georgia and the Carolinas because of rapidly expanding white population, as well as a Gold Rush around Dahlonega, Georgia in the 1830's.
		Unlike the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians adversarial relationship with the Cherokee Nation between the administrations of both tribes, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians interactions with the Cherokee Nation presents a unified spirit of Gadugi with the leaders and citizens of the Eastern Band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee (4313 words)

	Cherokee Indians in Georgia
		During the American Revolution the Cherokees, as well as the Creek and Choctaw, supported the British and made several attacks on forts and settlements in the frontier.
		Ironically, the Cherokees fought with Andrew Jackson in the Creek War (1813-14).
		Cherokee culture continued to flourish with the invention of the Cherokee syllabary by Sequoyah in 1821.
	ngeorgia.com /history/cherokee.html (368 words)

	cherokee indians
		The Cherokee were mainly farmers, although they hunted too using bow and arrow.
		The US government wanted the Cherokee land for the gold so Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act" President Jackson quickly signed the bill into the law.
		The American government ordered Federal soldiers to force the Cherokee people to leave their homes in the Eastern Woodlands and walk to the Oklahoma territory during the winter.
	www.d131.kane.k12.il.us /giftedht/marcos/cherokeeindians.html (583 words)

	South Carolina SC - Indians, Native Americans - Cherokee
		Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquios, and United Tribes of South Carolina were recognized in 2005 as a group by the state of South Carolina.
		Traditional: The foothills of northwestern South Carolina in Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties.
		Many thousands of Cherokee refused to abandon their homes and were forced to leave on foot by the US Army.
	www.sciway.net /hist/indians/cherokee.html (825 words)

	The history of the Cherokee Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest of five Native American tribes who settled in the American Southeast portion of the country.
		Eventually around the 1800s, the Cherokee Indians began to adopt the culture that the white man brought to them.
		Today, the largest population of Cherokee Indians live in the state of Oklahoma, where there are three federally recognized Cherokee communities with thousands of residents.
	www.indians.org /articles/cherokee-indians.html (307 words)

	Cherokee
		The Cherokee Indians, the Tennessee River people, became one of the nations residing along the Great River System; the Mississippi and all of its giant tributaries.
		Indian economy focused into the continent, with Illinois at the center of trade, not outward across the seas, as was the habit of European nations at the time Columbus discovered America.
		Rivers between the Cherokee mountains, fed by creeks running from all directions, flowed north and west into the Great River, the Cherokees' lifeline to other Indian cultures.
	cherokeehistory.com /fire.html (866 words)

	Learn more about the Creek Indians and their culture
		It was the colonists’ habit to call the various Indian tribes names based on where the Indians lived at the time.
		When a Creek Indian tribal town grew to a certain number, the town split in half and one half traveled not that far away and established a new town.
		The Creek Indians, for the most part, tried to keep the peace with the white man. But unfortunately, that peace was not meant to be.
	www.indians.org /articles/creek-indians.html (379 words)

	Native Americans -- Cherokee Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cherokee legend says that the Cherokee came from the far away Northwest.
		The Cherokee raised corn, squash, sweet potatoes, and beans.
		His mother was a Cherokee and his father was a white trader.
	members.aol.com /tuckermice/cherokee.html (872 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Cherokee and Southeastern Indians
		A member of the Cherokee Tribe, he was the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, (a set of written symbols, each of which represents a syllable, used to write a given language).
		The Cherokee Heritage Trails are a project of the Blue Ridge Heritage Initiative, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the North Carolina Folklife Institute, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service.
		Schwarz, Melissa, Wilma Mankiller: Principal Chief of the Cherokees, 1994.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmai/cherokee.htm (1367 words)

	The life of the Cree Indians
		The Cree Indians are a vast tribe of Native Americans who reside in various parts of North America.
		In Canada, the Cree Indians heavily populate Quebec and Saskatchewan.
		Similar to other Indian tribes, there are several bands of Cree Indians.
	www.indians.org /articles/cree-indians.html (309 words)

	McClung Museum - The Cherokee Indians
		The Frank H. McClung Museum is proud to recognize the Cherokee Indians during the Bicentennial Year of the state of Tennessee.
		One of these tribes was the Cherokee, who by 1700 claimed the lands north to the Ohio River, west to the western Tennessee River valley, south to include the northern portions of the present states of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, and, to the east, present-day western North Carolina.
		The history and culture of the Cherokees is an important part of the heritage of Tennessee.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/cherokee/cherokee.htm (527 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Official Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation Website
		Cherokee Indians of Georgia, Inc. [not a state-recognized tribe]
		The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/cheroke2.htm (56 words)

	Cherokee Language and the Cherokee Indian Culture (Tsalagi, Tsa-la-gi, Aniyunwiya)
		History: 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.
		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.
		If you understand this, both the extent to which the Cherokees had adopted American standards of civilization before the Removal and the ultimate futility of it, you will go a long way towards understanding the Cherokee mentality and also the attitudes of other Indian peoples towards us.
	www.native-languages.org /cherokee.htm (754 words)

	Cherokee History to The Trail of Tears
		Concise timeline of the Cherokee in Georgia, from 1450 until 1838.
		From the first Creek cession in 1733 to the invasion of the Cherokee Nation by the state of Georgia and the federal government.
		Before The Trail of Tears, the Cherokee were housed in these "forts" with little sanitation or food.
	ngeorgia.com /history/cherokeeindex.html (496 words)

	The Anasazi Indians are well known for their cliff pueblos
		The Anasazi Indians, also known as the “ancient people” are the ones that historians and researchers give credit to for the fascinating cliff pueblos found throughout the Four Corners area of what is now Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.
		The name “Anasazi” comes from the Navajo Indians and loosely translates to mean “enemy ancestors.” The Hopi Indians of today lay claim that the Ansazi Indians were their ancestors.
		The Anasazi Indians were real pioneers and created roads and irrigation systems for watering their crops.
	www.indians.org /articles/anasazi-indians.html (384 words)

	Cherokee Nation
		The Cherokee Nation’s Tribal Employment Rights Program (TERO) was recently awarded the “TERO Program of the Year Award” at the 30th Annual TERO Conference in New York.
		Cherokee Nation Emergency Medical Service (EMS) employees trained emergency service personnel from several counties in Oklahoma as well as agencies from other states in swift water rescue efforts.
		Cherokee Nation radio show includes music in the Cherokee language, interviews with Cherokee elders and information on programs that the Cherokee Nation has to offer, as well as the latest Cherokee Nation community news.
	www.cherokee.org (303 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cherokee Indians
		The removal was accomplished in 1839, and their tribal existence continued under the style of the "Cherokee Nation", until dissolved for American citizenship in 1906.
		The Cherokees were a sedentary and agricultural people, with hunting and fishing as subordinate occupations.
		The story of a Cherokee mission as early as 1643 must be regarded as apocryphal.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03646a.htm (514 words)

	Cherokee Indians
		State recognized Georgia Cherokee Indians.Dedicated to the preservation of the Culture, History and Traditions of Cherokees in Georgia.
		Mission is the Building of a State of the Art Cherokee Museum and Cultural/Ceremonial Complex.
		The Western Band of Cherokee are a federally recognized Native American Indian Tribe based in Tahlequah Oklahoma.
	roadsidegeorgia.com /links/american_indians/cherokee (152 words)

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