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  2. Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansaw Territory division: showing the progression of Indian Territory separation from Arkansas Territory, 1819–1836 Map of Southern United States during the time of the Indian Removals (Trail of Tears), 1830–1838, showing the historic lands of the Five Civilized Tribes. The destination Indian Territory is depicted in light yellow-green.

  3. Historic Cherokee settlements - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee "Nation of" Indians Exhibiting Various Cessations Made by Them to the Colonies and the United States, C.C. Royce, 1884. The historic Cherokee settlements were Cherokee settlements established in Southeastern North America up to the removals of the early 19th century.

  4. Cherokee history - Wikipedia

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    Their territory had an area of approximately 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km). [14] The first Anglo-Cherokee contact may have been in 1656, when English settlers in Virginia Colony recorded that six to seven hundred "Mahocks, Nahyssans and Rechahecrians" had encamped at Bloody Run, located on the eastern edge of present-day Richmond ...

  5. Cherokee Nation - Wikipedia

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    After Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee Nation existed in Indian Territory.After the American Civil War, the United States promised the Cherokee Nation "a permanent homeland" in an 1866 treaty.

  6. Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    Over 16,000 Cherokee were forcibly relocated westward to Indian Territory in 1838–1839, a migration known as the Trail of Tears or in Cherokee ᏅᎾ ᏓᎤᎳ ᏨᏱ or Nvna Daula Tsvyi (The Trail Where They Cried), although it is described by another word Tlo-va-sa (The Removal).

  7. Qualla Boundary - Wikipedia

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    The Qualla Boundary or The Qualla is territory held as a land trust by the United States government for the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), who reside in Western North Carolina. The area is part of the large historic Cherokee territory in the Southeast, which extended into eastern Tennessee, western South Carolina ...

  8. List of Indian reservations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental ... Cherokee: North Carolina 9,018 81.69 (211.58) 0. ...

  9. Cherokee removal - Wikipedia

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    Detail of an 1827 map depicting a substantial part of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia as a confined territory assigned to the lower Creek and Cherokee nations. Until widespread use of the cotton gin, short-staple cotton had been such an arduous crop to grow and process because of the time-consuming process of removing the sticky ...