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Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee.
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This article is about the Cherokee people, a North American Indian tribe of Iroquoian lineage. It provides information on their history, culture, religion and lifestyle before European colonization. The article also covers the events that took place after European colonization such as treaties with different countries, assimilation of American sett...
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North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization. They controlled approximately 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km) in parts of present-day Georgia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and South Carolina.
Bark-roofed windowless log cabins with one door and a smoke hole in roof; council house where general meetings held and sacred fire burned.
Traditional life greatly resembled that Creek tribe; composed confederacy symbolically red & white towns; cultivated corn maize), beans & squash; deer bear & elk furnished meat & clothing.
Some escaped to mountains to furnish nucleus for several thousand living in western North Carolina 21st century.
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May 23, 2018 · The Cherokee became known as one of the “ Five Civilized Tribes ” along with the Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, and Seminole nations (see entries). White people coined this term because these groups had formed institutions that white culture valued, such as constitutional governments and school systems.
Cherokee clans. Seven Cherokee chiefs who accompanied Sir Alexander Cumming, to England, representing every region in which the Cherokee then lived. The Cherokee clans (Cherokee syllabary:ᏣᎳᎩ ᏓᏂᎳᏍᏓᏢᎢ) are traditional social organizations of Cherokee society.
The Cherokee (/ ˈtʃɛrəkiː, ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː /; [8][9] Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, romanized: Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, romanized: Tsalagi) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
Oct 25, 2023 · Most of the war chiefs in Cherokee history emerged from the Aniwahya. They are the keepers and trackers of the wolf, and the only clan permitted to slay the animal. Even this must be done through special ceremonies and medicines.
In the 1820s, as they enjoyed one of the most promising periods in their history—developing a written language, adopting a constitution and building a capital city—Ross became the Cherokees’...
