Cherokee and other Native Americans were classified on the colored side and suffered the same racial segregation and disenfranchisement as former slaves. They also often lost their historical documentation for identification as Indians, when the Southern states classified them as colored.

Feb 4, 2025 · The Cherokee are a North American people of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization. They controlled parts of present-day Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and the western parts of what are now North Carolina and South Carolina.

Feb 3, 2025 · Today, the Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States with more than 450,000 tribal citizens worldwide. More than 141,000 Cherokee Nation citizens reside within the tribe’s reservation boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma.

Jun 14, 2021 · Today, the Cherokee people are the largest Native American group in the United States. You can learn more about the Cherokee people and the Trail of Tears by visiting sites along the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail.

Aug 23, 2023 · We review the history, culture, and facts of the unique indigenous peoples’ tribe. The Cherokee tribe was among the multiple Indigenous peoples’ settlements that thrived across Northern America before any interaction with the Europeans.

The Cherokee are members of the Iroquoian language -family of North American indigenous peoples, and are believed to have migrated in ancient times from the Great Lakes area, where most of such language families were located. The migration is recounted in their oral history.

Even today the Cherokee Native Americans Facts continue to advance their culture, society, and government based on what they watched and learned from the European settlers. The Cherokee history starts back when gold was being first discovered and Cherokee life was being invaded.

Aug 10, 2023 · Successive treaties with the British Crown and the United States reduced the Cherokee Nation’s original territory until, by 1817, the remaining Cherokee lands covered an area consisting of southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, northeastern Alabama and northern Georgia.

Apr 29, 2020 · The Cherokee descended from indigenous peoples who originally occupied the southern Appalachian Mountains region in North America, starting around 8000 B.C. Cherokees are part of the Iroquois group of North American Indian tribes, which also includes Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, and Oneida.

Jan 13, 2025 · The Cherokee, a Native American people of Iroquoian lineage, were among the largest and most politically integrated tribes during European colonization. Their name, derived from a Muscogee word meaning “people of different speech,” is often replaced by their preferred names: Keetoowah or Tsalagi.