Jan 7, 2022 · Indian Child Welfare provides a variety of protective and support services to Cherokee children and their families.

Information about the Cherokee Indians for students and teachers. Covers Cherokee tribes in Oklahoma and North Carolina, with facts about Cherokee Indian food, clothing, houses, villages, art and crafts, weapons and tools, legends, and customs of the Cherokee people.

Aug 7, 2023 · This unit is involved in civil guardianships and adoptions of Cherokee children in all state and tribal judicial courts across the United States. The unit assists court in the compliance of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

May 24, 2016 · "Cherokees believed children to be precious, valuable and sentient beings from birth. In a Cherokee society children were full persons with rights and responsibilities as kin. Of course as a matrilineal people, children are particularly precious to their clan kin," she said.

Mar 4, 2024 · Cherokee grandparents occupy a cherished place within the family and community. They are revered as repositories of wisdom, the keepers of ancestral stories, and the living embodiment of the tribe’s rich history.

Apr 9, 2020 · Children’s Books. The Cherokee Language Program offers free activity and story books in the Cherokee language. These stories are educational and regularly cover subjects important to Cherokee culture.

Oct 24, 2016 · Children and Birthing. With regard to Cherokee child birth, historian Theda Perdue, in her book Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, reports: “During delivery, a woman stood, knelt, or sat, but she never gave birth lying down. Usually no one bothered to catch the baby, who simply fell on leaves beneath the mother.”

Aug 7, 2023 · Tribal Court Advocacy and Permanency Services provides hands-on services to protect the best interests of Cherokee children and families.

Feb 3, 2025 · More than 141,000 Cherokee Nation citizens reside within the tribe’s reservation boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma. Services provided include health and human services, education, employment, housing, economic and infrastructure development, environmental protection and more.

Mar 14, 2025 · Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare has spent decades focusing on the well-being of Native children and making sure they are not split from their families and separated from their culture. Mancillas grew up in Spavinaw and graduated from Ketchum High School. She attended Northeastern State University.