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Location of the Eastern Cherokee Indian Land Trust Blowgun demonstration in Oconaluftee Indian Village, Cherokee, North Carolina The Eastern Cherokee Indian Nation Land, officially known as the Qualla Boundary , is located at 35°28′43″N 83°16′20″W / 35.47861°N 83.27222°W / 35.47861; -83.27222 in western North Carolina ...
Nimrod Jarret Smith (1837–1893) was 4th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band and a Confederate Army veteran of the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is made up of descendants of Cherokee primarily from along the Oconaluftee River in Western North Carolina, in today's Cherokee County. The ...
Cherokee Roots, Volume 1: Eastern Cherokee Rolls. (Cherokee: Bob Blankenship, 1992). Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838. (Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938). Eckert, Allan W. A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. (New York: Bantam, 1992).
Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will vote Thursday on whether their Tribal Council should legalize the recreational use of marijuana on their reservation in western North Carolina.
Richard G. Sneed (born December 20, 1967) is a Cherokee politician who served as the 28th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. [1] Sneed succeeded former Principal Chief Patrick Lambert following Lambert's impeachment , only the second such impeachment since the 19th century.
The Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) use the Guion Miller Roll and the Dawes Rolls in order to determine eligibility for tribal citizenship. The UKB also uses the 1949 United Keetoowah Band Base Roll. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians only uses the Baker Roll to determine eligibility for tribal ...
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' Tribal Council is set to vote to amend EBCI code to allow the sale of recreational marijuana on the Qualla Boundary. If the June 6 vote passes, the Eastern ...
At that time, Cherokee communities were on lands claimed by the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and the Overhill area, located in present-day eastern Tennessee. The break-away Chickamauga band (or Lower Cherokee), under War Chief Dragging Canoe ( Tsiyugunsini , 1738–1792), had retreated to and inhabited a mountainous area ...