Cherokee Indains
One f the most well known Native American tribes is the Cherokee. Most non-full bloods claiming to be Indian are Cherokee. The Cherokee tribe is the largest Native American tribe. In the O1770 the tried had a membership of around 12,000 (Ehle, 1955:7). When the tribe began its journey to Indian Territory there was roughly eighteen thousand members (Ellis,199:3). Along the harsh journey from Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina four thousand Cherokees died (Ellis, 1991:3). This long journey of the winter of 1832 has become known as the Trail of Tears. There term “Trail of Tears” is from the Cherokee language, nuna dat suhn’yi, simply means “the trail where they cried” (Holm, 1976:60). The journey of the Cherokee tribe is not presently illustrated to its fulfillment. First off for example the tribe, which for the most part was not nomadic, began its journey in the middle of winter. The entire tribe was traveling in a larger group by foot that means women, children, and the elderly were all taken from a land they could go without a great deal of clothing or shoes in the dead of winter to a much colder and unfamiliar area. These conditions are indescribable to those of us who enjoy the comities of today’s world
The Cherokee tribe is the largest in Oklahoma, has a strong foundation set in northeastern part of the state. The Cherokees have their own agency set to control the aspects of the member’s lives. The center of the Cherokee nation is Tahlequah, OK. Tahlequah is alive and striving today. “In 1838, the Cherokee Nation thrived in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. The 18,000 Indians had their own newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix, published in by English and Cherokee. They raised corn, cotton, hogs, and cattle. They lived in log houses and had long age put away their scalping knives. They hoped to live in peace where their ancestors had lived for over 500 years.” Although the tribe was very successful it experienced a great deal of turmoil. The Cherokees experience a separation of members of the tribe. The government began to forcefully relocate the tribes in the south, a group of the Cherokees who became known as the West Cherokees took the governments offer and relocated to Indian 1qTerritory. The remaining tribe members fought the united stated for almost a decade before agreeing to relocate. This group was called the east Cherokees. It is probably an advantage for the entire tribe that a part (roughly one third) relocated earlier because it allowed the east Cherokees an easier settlement after the long trip to Indian Territory. The west Cherokees also referred to as the “old settlers” were given an area of land called Lovely’s Purchase, near present day N
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