Cherokees in a sentence

Due to the infighting between political factions, many Cherokees thought their appeals were still being considered when the relocation began. citation It was subsequent to this that as many as 4,000 Cherokees died on the " Trail of Tears ".

The forced Removal began in the summer of 1838 when federal troops gathered Cherokees from the region to be centralized for mass removal to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).

The Huntington commit made strides and gained confidence with a new travel team last summer, and she’s in her second season starting at third base for the Cherokees after shifting from the outfield.

The Cherokee National Holiday commemorates the signing of the Cherokee Nation Constitution in 1839, which re-established the tribe’s government in Indian Territory after forced removal from the Cherokees’ original homelands in the Southeast.

Bo Taylor, Museum of the Cherokee Indian executive director, said, “We want people to understand that we, as Cherokees, want to build a culture here.

Learn about Cherokees in the Civil War and corn husk doll making demonstrations.

We do pea shooters, sling shots, tomahawks, bows and arrows; those things similar to what The Cherokees used to do, but we’re on a much smaller scale.

Fiat Chrysler ships some Jeep Grand Cherokees but has a huge new factory in southern China to build most other Jeeps.

Most Cherokees were equipped with a 4-speed automatic, but a 5-speed manual was available (earlier models also utilized a 3-speed automatic).

Descendants of the Texas Cherokees and the Mount Tabor Community joined together to try to gain redress from treaty violations, stemming from the Treaty of Bowles Village in 1836.

Georgia Historic Marker, New Echota, 1958 As some Cherokees were slaveholders, they took enslaved African Americans with them west of the Mississippi.

In 1988, the federal court in the Freedmen case of Nero v. Cherokee Nation held that Cherokees could decide citizenship requirements and exclude freedmen.

Many members of the UKB are descended from Old Settlers – Cherokees who moved to Arkansas and Indian Territory before the Trail of Tears.

Only some 800 are stuck in limbo without status as Cherokees.

The Cherokee Female Seminary was built in 1889 by the Oklahoma Cherokees.

This custom does not belong originally to the Cherokees, but taken by them from the Shawnese, or other northern nations.

This plant, maypop, has been a favorite of Southerners for 350 years; it gives its name to the Ocoee River in Tennessee, a legacy of the Cherokees, and in Southern Louisiana it is known as liane de grenade, indicating its consumption by Cajuns.

This protection and autonomy is extended to those Amerindian ethnic groups which have migrated from the United States — like the Cherokees and Kickapoos — and Guatemala during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Under Article 8 of the 1817 Cherokee treaty, "Upwards of 300 Cherokees (Heads of Families) in the honest simplicity of their souls, made an election to become American citizens".

When the federal government tried to assert authority on behalf of the Cherokees, the governor of Georgia took up arms.