Cherokee

[ cher-uh-kee, cher-uh-kee ]

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noun

plural Cherokees, (especially collectively) Cherokee

a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, written since 1822 in a syllabic script invented for the language by Sequoya.

Cherokee

/ ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː; ˈtʃɛrəˌkiː /

noun

-kees-kee a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family

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The scholars association abruptly rescinded the award after allegations surfaced last spring that Blackwell’s claims of Cherokee heritage, based on family stories, were phony.

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Georgia, which concerned whether the state of Georgia had the authority to regulate the affairs of its citizens and the Cherokee Nation, President Andrew Jackson is often said to have defied the Supreme Court.

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When the justices decided a dispute between the state of Georgia and Cherokee Indian governments in 1832, Jackson did not seem interested in following its direction.

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But some matrilocal communities exist today or in the recent past, including the Akans in Ghana, West Africa and Cherokee in North America.

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Rogers was born to a Cherokee family in Oklahoma and was regarded as “among our most beloved Cherokees,” said Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. of the Cherokee Nation.

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chernozem Cherokee rose

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