Cherokee Tribe

The Cherokee are an aboriginal people of North America who inhabited what is now the Eastern and Southeastern United States. According to numbers from the 2000 U.S. census, the Cherokee are the largest of the nation's 563 recognized indigenous tribes. They are also the largest of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, a term applied to groups who were considered civilized by Europeans in that they had generally peaceful interactions with settlers and adopted some of their customs and habits.

In the 1830s, most of the Cherokee were relocated from their native homes in Georgia and the Carolinas west to Oklahoma in a migration dubbed the Trail of Tears.

1. Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, pioneered the Cherokee writing system
2. Ned Christie was a Cherokee patriot and independence fighter
3. Elias Boudinot wrote the first Native American novel, Poor Sarah
4. Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Depp, Lou Diamond Phillips, Steven Tyler, Chuck Norris and Burt Reynolds are also of Cherokee ancestry

• 1540-1: Hernando DeSoto one of the first whites seen by the tribe

• 1753: Smallpox epidemic.

• 1755(?):The Battle of Taliwa

• 1760-1762: Anglo-Cherokee War

• 1771: Sequoyah born.

• 1776-94: The Chickamauga Wars begin

• 1786: Treaty of Hopewell

• 1794: Chickamauga Cherokee begin moving west

• October 1887: The Trail of Tears "Trail of Tears" Begins

• 1839: Cherokee Act of Union unites the eastern and western Cherokee Nation

• 1924: Congress extendsAmerican Citizenship to all Native Americans.

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