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The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the United States.
Cherokee: North Carolina 9,018 81.69 (211.58) ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized American ...
The Eastern Cherokee Indian Nation Land, officially known as the Qualla Boundary, is located at in western North Carolina, just south of Great Smoky Mountains National The main part of the reserve lies in eastern Swain County and northern Jackson County , but smaller non-contiguous sections are located to the southwest in Cherokee and Graham ...
The CN controls Cherokee Nation Entertainment, Cherokee Nation Industries, and Cherokee Nation Businesses. CNI is a very large defense contractor that creates thousands of jobs in eastern Oklahoma for Cherokee citizens.
The Cherokee Outlet was created in 1836. The United States forced the Cherokee Nation of Indians to cede to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for a reservation and an "outlet" in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). At the time of its creation, the Cherokee Outlet was about 225 miles (360 km) long.
The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, pronounced Tsalagihi Ayeli [1]) was a legal, autonomous, tribal government in North America recognized from 1794 to 1907.
The land is a fragment of the extensive historical homeland of the Cherokee in the region and was considered part of the Cherokee Nation during the 19th century, prior to certain treaties and Indian Removal in the 1830s. William Holland Thomas had lived and worked among the Cherokee people for a good portion of his life. He had a knowledge of ...
Oct. 30—The Cherokee Nation filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in response to the state of Oklahoma and other government bodies attempting to overturn the McGirt decision. The ...