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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Obama Upholds Rights of Cherokees, All Native American Tribes
Posted on Tuesday, May 20 @ 21:50:06 CDT (3082 reads)

AUTHOR: First Americans Advocate

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has stated his opposition to H.R. 2824, an attempt by his fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) to sever government-to-government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because of an on-going dispute between the tribe and the "Cherokee Freedmen."

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee Center Puts Documentation Services Online
Posted on Tuesday, May 13 @ 20:50:09 CDT (2383 reads)

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The Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center now provides a quick and simple way for people of Cherokee blood to register online, document their heritage, and learn more about who they are.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Quarterback Sam Bradford is source of pride for the Cherokee Nation
Posted on Saturday, December 01 @ 20:18:24 CST (3118 reads)

AUTHOR: Vahe Gregorian

J.R. Cook, executive director of United National Indian Tribal Youth in Oklahoma City, believes Bradford is the first quarterback with American Indian heritage to start for a major college program since Sonny Sixkiller at Washington in 1972.

"Obviously, Oklahoma football is huge all over the state, and in the Cherokee Nation it's the same," Miller said. "The quarterback on an Oklahoma team who's done as well as he has is a rock star in Oklahoma, and now we feel like he's our rock star."

Sports, of course, aren't always the most meaningful endeavor, Cook said. But he understands their visibility and likes to note an old American Indian saying: "The honor of one is the honor of all."

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is trying to break a treaty signed in 1866
Posted on Thursday, June 21 @ 15:44:33 CDT (2998 reads)

AUTHOR: George Wickliffe

Federally-recognized tribal governments are in a better position with the United States than ever before. And because of that, I am concerned that the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is trying to break a treaty signed in 1866 with the original Cherokees. It is dangerous to try and break a treaty. It opens doors for Congress to abolish their government-to-government relationship with the tribes.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee healer says to remember and follow the traditions
Posted on Tuesday, April 24 @ 23:08:45 CDT (3609 reads)

AUTHOR: Betty Smith

Crosslin Smith, Cherokee Traditionalist

Cherokee traditionalist Crosslin Smith explains the principles set down by the creator. "Maintaining the spiritual tradition handed down through centuries is vital to a person’s health in today’s society," Smith said Friday.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Old Indians mounds claimed by Eastern Cherokee tribe
Posted on Tuesday, April 24 @ 22:57:33 CDT (3792 reads)

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on Monday officially reclaimed one of the few undisturbed Indians mounds remaining in Western North Carolina. “This property is not just about a mound,” said Principal Chief Michell Hicks. “It is about a way of life.”

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Eastern Band of Cherokee announces new art school
Posted on Friday, March 30 @ 19:13:39 CDT (4333 reads)

AUTHOR: Lynne Harlan

Art is a term foreign in the Cherokee language and many other native languages because art does not exist in the Cherokee life view. However, the expression of creativity has long held deep significance and has transcended the mere construction of an art object.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokees Vote Out Slaves' Descendants
Posted on Sunday, March 04 @ 19:10:06 CST (2958 reads)

AUTHOR: Murray Evans

Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokees to Vote: Can Freedmen be Native American?
Posted on Saturday, March 03 @ 19:05:12 CST (2525 reads)

AUTHOR: Frank Morris

Next month, members of the Cherokee Nation will vote on whether to amend the tribal constitution to make Indian blood a requirement for citizenship.
American Indian tribes are considered sovereign nations within the United States, and their citizens are entitled to tribal benefits, including subsidized housing and health care.

At issue in the March 3 vote is the status of thousands of descendants of African slaves once owned by tribal members. The people known as Cherokee freedmen say a 140-year-old treaty protects their citizenship in the Cherokee Nation.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee Chief not ready to end fight to keep out Freedmen
Posted on Friday, March 17 @ 00:49:04 CST (4356 reads)

AUTHOR: Donna Hales, Phoenix Staff Writer

The chief of the Cherokees is advocating the tribal council reverse the highest tribal court's ruling that freedmen were illegally denied tribal citizenship.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Tribal court rules in favor of “Freedmen”
Posted on Friday, March 10 @ 16:46:27 CST (3549 reads)

AUTHOR: Sam Lewin, Native Times

Justices say Cherokees must grant membership to descendants of slaves

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokees must recognize Freedmen, tribunal rules
Posted on Tuesday, March 07 @ 21:19:50 CST (5444 reads)

AUTHOR: Donna Hales, Phoenix Staff Writer

Cherokee Freedman retain tribal citizenship under the tribe's 1975 constitution and are legally entitled to vote, the tribe's highest court ruled 2-1 Tuesday.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee (1945-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:27:25 CDT (11876 reads)

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was both the first woman deputy chief and the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Nancy Ward, (Nanye-hi) Cherokee (ca. 1738-ca. 1824)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:06:31 CDT (6990 reads)

From the English rendition of Nanye-hi, "One Who Goes About," named from the mythological Spirit People, Nancy Ward was a major Cherokee figure of the Southern frontier who became an almost legendary person due largely to her queenly manner and resolute personality. Nanye-hi was born into the Wolf clan about 1738 at Chota, near Fort Loudon, Tennessee. Her father was Fivekiller, a Cherokee-Delaware man, and her mother was Tame Deer (sometimes recorded as Tame Doe) the sister of Attakullakulla, known popularly as Catherine.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Arkansas Cherokee Indians
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 04:23:48 CST (4427 reads)

There have been many very notable and honored Chiefs that lived in the Arkansas Territory. Some have claimed Dangerous Man from the Cherokee legend of the Lost Cherokee resided in Arkansas for a time, however we will stick to what we know as fact, as that is usually the best policy when doing legitimate research.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Finding your Cherokee ancestors
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:53:57 CST (8792 reads)

In 1976, Cherokee voters ratified a new Cherokee Constitution, which changed the ways of measuring tribal membership. At that time, it was determined that anyone who could trace direct descent from the Dawes Rolls, a census taken between 1902-1907, could become a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. There are now over 165,00 registered Cherokee citizens.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Census rolls and historical records that contain clues to Cherokee genealogy
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:45:13 CST (12736 reads)

The different Census Rolls are given control numbers by the National Archives so they may be ordered, such as M-1234. The rolls are usually named for the person taking the census. Each roll pertains to a particular year so it is important to select the year that applies to the individual whom you are looking to find. I usually like to start with the Guion Miller Roll. The claims had to be on file by August 31, 1907. In 1909 Miller stated that 45,847 separate applications had been filed representing a total of about 90,000 individuals; 3436 resided east, and 27,384 were residing West of the Mississippi.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Where to start your Cherokee genealogy research
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:28:51 CST (8613 reads)

The Cherokee Indians have had continuing dealings with the U.S. Government since the 1700’s through treaties, legislation, and the courts. There are probably more federal records concerning the Cherokees than any other tribe.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: The Raven Mocker is the most dreaded of Cherokee witches
Posted on Saturday, December 11 @ 04:18:38 CST (9594 reads)

The Raven Mocker is the most dreaded of Cherokee witches.. KEYWORDS: raven mocker cherokee witches cherokee religious beliefs

The most dreaded of all Cherokee witches is the Raven Mocker, who robs the dying of their life. A Raven Mocker can be of either sex, and there is no real way to know one. They usually look old and withered, because they have added so many lives to their own.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Gathering and Using Medicinal Herbs in the Cherokee Tradition
Posted on Saturday, December 11 @ 03:56:34 CST (13130 reads)

Gathering and Using Medicinal Herbs in the Cherokee Tradition.. KEYWORDS: cherokee medicinal herbs gathering use preservation of medicinal herbs cherokee herbalists

The Cherokee have been gifted by the Creator with an understanding of the gathering, use and preservation of medicinal herbs. The Cherokee believe that these plants were put on this earth to provide not only healing methods, but preventative measures, as well.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Native American Roots, Once Hidden, Now Embraced
Posted on Sunday, May 09 @ 21:11:53 CDT (12922 reads)

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AUTHOR: Carol Morello

Nearly every day, some determined person with pale skin and blue eyes comes to Lela Ummerteskee from far away, ready to fulfill a dream and register as an American Indian.

Not everyone has a rock-solid pedigree. The tribal enrollment officer for the Cherokee Nation has been presented with everything from an X-ray of a head purporting to show Indian cheekbones to scraped-off patches of skin -- all offered as proof that a distant ancestor was Native American.

Only those with an unbroken chain of family documents are enrolled, and even many of those people first knew of their Indian past only by way of a great-great-grandparent whose story they learned as children.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee Country - An original story
Posted on Sunday, January 11 @ 22:50:50 CST (12769 reads)

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For a long time she heard her parents and Grandparents arguing. It was not so much personal, as it had to do with what was happening to the Cherokee people and how there were rumors and such. Talk of the whiteman forcing us from our land, talk of deceit, which Grandpa always said was the way with most white men, with few exceptions. White politicians? Grandpa would get so angry at even the word politicians and told us to never trust anything they said and did. All they wanted was Indian land and to kill every Indian they could.

This arguing was serious. As I listened from the loft, I could hear Grandma nearly pleading with Grandpa to sign the rolls of the Cherokee. He refused. I will not sign anything to prove who I am! He nearly shouted and Grandpa was always so tender with Grandma. “If we sign onto those rolls,” Grandpa said, we are signing our death warrant

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Northern Cherokee typically aren't associated with Kansas: Family histories say
Posted on Saturday, February 16 @ 17:17:41 CST (7063 reads)

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Author: Philip Carlson/The Capital-Journal

In a just-released book on the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, a chapter recounts the American Indian tribe's history in Kansas.

For some people, that account may come as a surprise, as the Northern Cherokee typically aren't associated with the Sunflower State.

Records and family histories speak otherwise.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: The Cherokee War of 1839
Posted on Thursday, December 27 @ 00:50:57 CST (6474 reads)

The Cherokee War of 1839 was the culmination of friction between the Cherokee, Kickapoo, and Shawnee Indians and the white settlers in Northeast Texas.

The Indians, who had obtained squatters' rights to the land from Spanish authorities, were promised title to the land by the Consultation, and on February 23, 1836, a treaty made by Sam Houston and John Forbes, who represented the provisional government, gave title to the lands between the Angelina and Sabine rivers and northwest of the Old San Antonio Road to the Cherokees and their associated bands.

The treaty was tabled by the Texas Senate on December 29, 1836, and was declared null and void by that body on December 16, 1837, despite Houston's insistence that it be ratified.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Cherokee Legend of the Butterfly Dance
Posted on Saturday, September 22 @ 04:04:21 CDT (7562 reads)

Raven SiJohn writes Some say the modern day Pow Wow competition dance known as the Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance has its roots in a ceremonial dance called the Butterfly Dance. Here is a Cherokee account of how that dance came to be.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
Posted on Friday, July 20 @ 20:50:30 CDT (12939 reads)

Of all the injustices done to Native Americans, none equals the cruelty and betrayal culminating in the tragic "Trail of Tears" when the Cherokee Nation was forcefully driven out of the North Carolina mountains and marched 1,200 miles to Oklahoma.

Those who survived the journey to Oklahoma are known as the Western Band. Descendants of those who hid in the Great Smoky Mountains to avoid removal are known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

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