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Individuals with some degree of documented Cherokee descent who do not meet the criteria for Cherokee tribal citizenship may describe themselves as "being of Cherokee descent" or "being a Cherokee descendant". [1] These terms are also used by non-Native individuals whose ancestry has not been independently verified.
Jennie Ross Cobb (Cherokee, 1881–1959) is the first known Native American woman photographer in the United States. She began taking pictures of her Cherokee community in the late 19th century. The Oklahoma Historical Society used her photos of the Murrell Home to restore that building, which is now a museum.
In racist discourse, especially that of post-Enlightenment Western writers, a Roman nose has been characterized as a marker of beauty and nobility. [5] A well-known example of the aquiline nose as a marker contrasting the bearer with their contemporaries is the protagonist of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688).
Sharon Irla (born 1957) is a Cherokee artist, enrolled in the Cherokee Nation.A self-taught artist, Irla began entering competitive art shows in 2003. Her collective body of works span the fields of painting, murals, graphics, photography, and custom picture frames with Southeastern Woodlands / Mississippian motifs. [1]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cherokee Nation people. It includes Cherokee Nation people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Maggie Axe was born and raised in Snowbird Gap in Graham County, North Carolina, the daughter of Will and Caroline Cornsilk Axe. [2] Her family home was rather isolated from the majority of Cherokee in the region, most of whom lived about 50 miles away in the Qualla Boundary of Swain County. [2]
Men and women have historically played important yet, at times, different roles in Cherokee society. Historically, women have primarily been the heads of households, owning the home and the land, farmers of the family's land, and "mothers" of the clans. As in many Native American cultures, Cherokee women are honored as life-givers. [92]
Susannah Emory (after 1741 – 1797–1800) was a Cherokee matriarch. She was born in the Cherokee country at Great Tellico, now located in Monroe County, Tennessee.Her family was displaced frequently because of various wars that took place on the frontier, but she was known to have been friendly to White settlers.