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  2. Cherokee syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language.His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation. [3]

  3. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word. For instance, sequoias are named in honor of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah , who lived 2,000 miles (3,200 km) east of that tree's range, while the kinkajou of South America was given a name from the ...

  4. Hester Roll - Wikipedia

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    The Hester Rolls are a Cherokee census roll that was taken in 1883 by Joseph G. Hester. The census listed new citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, whether by birth or by adoption.

  5. List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United ...

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    This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes . As of January 8, 2024 [update] , 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States.

  6. Does your town's name have Native American roots? The ... - AOL

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    One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.

  7. Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    Unlike most other Native American tribes in the American Southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee and Tuscarora people spoke Iroquoian languages. Since the Great Lakes region was the territory of most Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that both the Cherokee and Tuscarora migrated south from that region.

  8. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. OCLC 53019644. Google URL (pages to 150); Internet Archive URL (requires free registration and Borrow action) Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  9. List of Native Americans of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American ...