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  Stories along the Trail - The Cherokee Rose - The Cherokee Trail of Tears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The name, Cherokee Rose, is a local appellation derived from the Cherokee Indians who widely distributed the plant, which elsewhere is known by the botanical name of rosa sinica.
Growing wild the rose is a high climbing shrub, frequently attaining the proportions of a vine, is excessively thorny and generously supplied with leaves of a vivid green.
In color, the rose is a waxy white and large golden center and the petals are of an exquisite velvety texture.
rosecity.net /tears/trail/rose.html   (446 words)

  
 Georgia State Flower Cherokee Rose Rosa laevigata
The Cherokee rose was adopted by the Georgia General Assembly as the floral emblem of the State of Georgia at the request of the Federation of Women's Clubs.
Be it therefore by the House of Representatives of Georgia, the Senate concurring, resolved, That, at the suggestion and request of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, the Cherokee Rose be and the same is hereby adopted as and declared to be the floral emblem of the State of Georgia.
The Cherokee rose is adopted as the floral emblem of the State of Georgia.
www.netstate.com /states/symb/flowers/ga_cherokee_rose.htm   (508 words)

  
 Floridata: Rosa laevigata
The fruit of the Cherokee rose is called a hip and is large compared to other members of the rose family being 1.5-2 in (4-5 cm)long by 0.5-1 in (1-2.5 cm) wide.
Unlike hybrid roses, the Cherokee rose is not plagued by insects and fungus.
Birds flock to the Cherokee rose to feast on the hips, this fruit being a tasty source of vitamin C (humans also consume rose hips from other species as a nutritional supplement).
www.floridata.com /ref/R/rosalaev.cfm   (527 words)

  
 CHEROKEE ROSE
Cherokee were grieving and crying so much, they were unable to help
The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each
Cherokee women saw that the Cherokee Rose was strong enough to take
www.angelfire.com /ok/lifedreams/page2index.html   (693 words)

  
 Georgia Secretary of State | State Flower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1916, with the support of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, the Cherokee rose was named the state floral emblem.
The name "Cherokee Rose" is a local designation derived from the Cherokee Indians who widely distributed the plant.
The rose is excessively thorny and generously supplied with leaves of a vivid green.
www.sos.state.ga.us /state_capitol/education_corner/state_flower.html   (89 words)

  
 Cherokee Rose Bookmarks
Add the word Cherokee Rose to the list and explain that that is the official state flower for the state of Georgia.
If you live in an area that is abundant with Cherokee Roses, pick enough for each student to have two and press them between the pages of a telephone book and allow them to dry.
If students are making their own cherokee rose, they may want to look at a photograph as they create their own paper version.
www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=46400   (616 words)

  
 Plant of the Week 03/28/2005: Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By legend, the rose was said to spring from the tears of mothers unable to save their children during the forced winter march.
It is the understock for grafting the myriad of hybrid roses that grace southern gardens.
The Cherokee parent of the rootstock imparts vigor to roses that otherwise could not grow in the heat and humidity.
www.killerplants.com /plant-of-the-week/20050328.asp   (488 words)

  
 Cherokee Rose
The above photograph shows three stages in the flowering of a Cherokee Rose.
At left center is an unopened bud; at top is a recently opened bloom; and at bottom is a mature bloom.
The Cherokee Rose became Georgia's official state "floral emblem" by virtue of a joint resolution of the General Assembly approved by Gov. Nathaniel Harris on Aug. 18, 1916.
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/cherokeerose.htm   (71 words)

  
 Fact sheet on the Cherokee Rose
As the story goes, during the Trail of Tears the mothers of the fallen Cherokee grieved greatly.
The Cherokee chiefs prayed for a sign to lift the spirits of the mothers.
One of the earliest roses to bloom in spring.
county.ces.uga.edu /cobb/Horticulture/Plants/CherokeeRose/cherokee.htm   (396 words)

  
 THE CHEROKEE ROSE AND GOD'S AMAZING GRACE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The gold of the center to mark the land taken from the Cherokee and passed to another's hand.
Cherokee Rose still grows along The Trail Of Tears, to remind us of the hope they had through those years.
Cherokee Rose with all your beauty retained, you stand as a symbol of what we will regain.
4dw.net /tommyblue43/CherokeeRose.html   (785 words)

  
 The Legend of the Cherokee Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Cherokee were driven from their homelands in North Carolina and Georgia over 100 years ago when gold was discovered in their lands.
The plant would have white blossoms, a beautiful rose with five petals and gold in the center for the greed of the white man for the gold on their land.
The stickers on the stem would protect it from those who might try to move it, as it spread to reclaim some of the lost Cherokee homeland.
www.cherokee.org /Culture/LiteraturePage.asp?ID=247   (275 words)

  
 cherokee rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1838 the Cherokee were stripped of their rights and forced to move against their will on 'The Trail of Tears' by the governments of Georgia and United States.
The Cherokee Rose is forever linked to the Trail of Tears and its petals represent the women's tears shed during the...
Cherokee Rose Kennel is a member of the Saint Bernard Club of...
www.flowers-universe.com /articles/4/cherokee-rose.html   (652 words)

  
 Native American Heritage: Trail Of Tears
When the Trail Of Tears started in 1838, the mothers of the Cherokee were greiving, and crying so much; they were unable to help their children to survive the journey.
Life of the traditional Cherokee remained unchanged as late as 1710, which is marked as the beginning of Cherokee trade with the whites.
Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800's as Cherokees of white encroachment moved west and settled in other areas of the country's vast frontier.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9846/trail.html   (865 words)

  
 Legend of the Cherokee Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When the Trail of Tears started in 1838, the mothers of the Cherokee were grieving and crying so much, they were unable to help their children survive the journey.
The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each stem for the seven Cherokee clans.
The wild Cherokee Rose grows along the route of the Trail of Tears into eastern Oklahoma today.
www.powersource.com /cherokee/rose.html   (129 words)

  
 CHEROKEE ROSSE
The Tsalagi (Cherokee) are a nation of North American Indians that formerly inhabited the mountainous region of the western Carolinas, northern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee.
The vast majority of the Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation repudiated this document, but under Gen. Winfield SCOTT, most remaining Tsalagi (Cherokee) were driven from their land and forcibly marched to Arkansas and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1838-39.
The Tsalagi (Cherokee) who avoided the forced removal of 1838 escaped into the Great Smoky Mountains and resettled in North Carolina, where they formed a tribal corporation in 1889.
www.angelfire.com /country/cherokeerosse   (538 words)

  
 The Cherokee Rose on the Trail of Tears
The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an independent Cherokee Nation.
And so a country formed fifty years earlier on the premise "...that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.." brutally closed the curtain on a culture that had done no wrong.
To this day, the Cherokee Rose prospers along the route of the "Trail of Tears" and it is now the official flower of the State of Georgia.
www.tripsmarter.com /atlanta/archives/cherokee_rose.htm   (1022 words)

  
 Cherokee Cultural Society of Houston
The ever-popular Cherokee Cultural Society coffee mugs and canvas tote bags are here in their sporty new color, Native Rust.
The Cherokee Messenger is a publication of the Cherokee Cultural Society of Houston.
Please email to:jwilliams@sageways.com or 4407 Rose Street, Houston TX 77007 (713-866-4085) no later than the 10th of the month prior to publication the first of next month.
www.powersource.com /cherokee   (265 words)

  
 Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This is a great resource for insight on Cherokee beliefs as well as good old fashioned bedtime stories.
One of the Cherokee Creation Stories and "How the Strawberries came to Be." During the times of the councilhouse (townhouse), the strawberries would be planted around the mound to remind them to not be angry or bitter with one another."
The Cherokee hunters were instructed in the ways of hunting the deer and prayed to the Deer Spirit for pardon when they were killed for food.
www.cherokee.org /Culture/LiteratureCat.asp?Cat=Stories   (425 words)

  
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Nonetheless, it is a strong and beautiful rose with a wonderful fragrance and a good story surrounding its introduction.
The Cherokee Rose naturalized successfully and is now a common sight blooming in the South during Spring.
The Cherokee Rose is a climber which blooms once a year, bearing large, white flowers, each with five petals.
www.geocities.com /crfarm2001   (429 words)

  
 The Story of the Trail where they cried.....
Life of the traditional Cherokee remained unchanged as late as 1710,which is marked as the beginning of Cherokee trade with the whites.
The period of frontier contact from 1540-1786, was marked by white expansion and the cession of Cherokee lands to the colonies in exchange for trade goods.
Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800s as Cherokees wary of white encroachment moved west and settled in other areas of the country's vast frontier.
members.tripod.com /~kirbyTD/TOT1998index2.html   (783 words)

  
 Cherokee Rose & Silena's Recordings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
They are Cherokee mixed bloods and can relate to their audiences on several levels.
Cherokee women....a mother and daughter duet often referred to as the Judds
Cherokee Rose and Silena are currently available for bookings throughout the United States and Canada.
www.cherokeerose.net /sounds.html   (1035 words)

  
 Cherokee Rose -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cherokee Rose -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
It is a climbing (A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches) shrub, scrambling over other shrubs and small (A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms) trees to heights of up to 10 m.
It is the (additional info and facts about state flower) state flower of (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/cherokee_rose.htm   (132 words)

  
 The Cherokee Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
        The Cherokee Rose was named in honor of the Cherokee Indian tribe.
  In 1838, when gold was discovered on the Cherokee land, the government ordered the Cherokees to more to an Indian reservation in Oklahoma.
  This journey was called, “The Trail of Tears.”  The Cherokee Rose is white, and the gold center represents the gold taken from the Cherokee land.
www.promotega.org /asu00018/symbols/cherokeerose.htm   (81 words)

  
 Cherokee resources, Cherokee genealogy, Cherokee religion
I am a Charter Lifetime Member of the Cherokee National Historical Society’s, First Families of the Cherokee Nation and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG).
To aid in this task, I have included Native American ancient and modern history (don’t miss the Forbidden Archaeology section), society, religion, folklore, culture, sports, medicine, and a large slice of VANN genealogy.
“Cherokee Rose, on Rivers of Golden Tears”, a historical novel, follows the life and times of the founders of the Vann Clan, the builders and occupants of the Chief Vann House in Chatsworth, Georgia.
www.cherokeebyblood.com   (607 words)

  
 The Trail of Tears - Cherokee Indians forcibly removed from North Georgia
The Cherokees in 1828 were not nomadic savages.
Chief John Ross, who valiantly resisted the forced removal of the Cherokee, lost his wife Quatie in the march.
Poet Abe "Del" Jones masterpiece, "The Neverending Trail" captures the sorrow of the Cherokee before and during "The Trail of Tears".
ngeorgia.com /history/nghisttt.html   (1209 words)

  
 Rosa setigera, Cherokee rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Inflorescence a corymb with numerous flowers, glandular-hispid; sepals 5, lanceolate, glandular-hispid above; petals 5, rose or white, 3-3.5 cm (1.2-1.4 in) long; styles united into a column, exserted; stamens numerous; flowers appear from May to June.
Food uses: rose hips are an excellent source of vitamin C (60 times the concentration of lemons).
Wildlife benefits: fruits are eaten by a variety of birds and mammals; the stems are browsed by deer.
www.biosurvey.ou.edu /shrub/rosa-set.htm   (164 words)

  
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Cherokee Rose Kennel has an undying love for the Saint Bernard breed and is dedicated to promoting them through excellence in conformation, obedience, public awareness, and most importantly, rescue
We of the great state of Arkansas, would like to welcome you to the rescue's host site, Cherokee Rose Kennel.
Cherokee Rose Kennel is a member of the Saint Bernard Club of America, the major contributor, and a vital volunteer in the Saint Bernard Rescue of Arkansas and it's rescue efforts.
www.cherokeerosekennel.homestead.com   (302 words)

  
 Welcome to Cherokee Rose - Home of Miniature Horses, and Shih Tzu Dogs
Rev:4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord to receive Glory And Honor and Power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
We will begin raising these fun loving "dust mops" in 2004 with the same standard of breeding we hold for our Miniature Horses.
Thank you for visiting...Hans, Carrie and The Cherokee Rose Gang.
webpages.charter.net /cherokeerose1   (185 words)

  
 eBay - tiffin cherokee rose, Glass, Pottery Glass items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tiffin Cherokee Rose CREAMER and SUGAR w/platinum trim
Tiffin Cherokee Rose Port or Liqueor Stem - #17403
Tiffin "Cherokee Rose" 6 salad/dessert Plates - NR
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