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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Cherokee, Tuscarora people, Coharie, Lumbee, Natchez people, Waccamaw Siouan, Joara, Haliwa-Saponi, Occaneechi, Catawba people, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Chowanoke, Eno people, Pamlico, Secotan, Cheraw people, Saura, Croatan, Wateree people, Machapunga, Ani-Stohini/Unami, Coree, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Meherrin, Sissipahaw, Shakori people, Waxhaw tribe, Roanoke tribe, Roanoke-Hatteras Indian Tribe. Excerpt: The Cherokee (English pronunciation: , ) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and East Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located. In the 19th century, white settlers in the United States called the Cherokees one of the “Five Civilized Tribes,” because they had assimilated numerous cultural and technological practices of European American settlers. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 members, the largest of the 565 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States. Of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) have headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The UKB are mostly descendants of “Old Settlers,” Cherokee who migrated to Arkansas and Oklahoma about 1817. The Cherokee Nation are related to the people who were forcibly relocated there in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is located on the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina. In addition, there are Cherokee bands in the…
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