cherokee

     

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Trivia about cherokee

  • The "Phoenix" was the first newspaper to appear in the language of this Native American tribe
  • 53 years before the Trail of Tears, this tribe signed the Hopewell Treaty with the U.S.
  • This Indian nation holds an annual homecoming holiday in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
  • Membership tripled after Wilma Mankiller became the 1st woman chief of this Native American nation
  • The forced march this Eastern tribe made West during the winter of 1838-39 is known as the Trail of Tears
  • Once living near the Great Lakes but defeated by the Iroquois, this tribe moved to the Southeast (but not in Jeeps)
  • The first U.S. newspaper to use an Indian language was published in Georgia in 1828 using this language
  • In 1828 this tribe began publishing a weekly newspaper using their new alphabet
  • Though the Supreme Court said in the 1830s this tribe was its own "nation" within Georgia, it didn't happen
  • The Treaty of New Echota said these Indians would move west for $5 million & 7 million acres
  • The "Trail of Tears" took 14,000 members of this group away from tribal lands to an area 800 miles west
  • In 1985 Oklahoma-born Wilma Mankiller became the first woman chief of this Indian nation
  • In the winter of 1838-39, over 4,000 died during this tribe's forced march from the Southeast to Oklahoma
  • Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to serve as principal chief of this Southeast Native American tribe
  • The earliest known records of this Native American people's syllabary were found carved in a cave wall
  • Tragically, in the 1830s, some 4,000 members of this Indian tribe died during a forced march known as the Trail of Tears
  • Language of Sequoyah's syllabary(8)
  • With some 280,000 members, this tribe, largely concentrated in Oklahoma, is the largest in the U.S.