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Location of the Eastern Cherokee Indian Land Trust Blowgun demonstration in Oconaluftee Indian Village, Cherokee, North Carolina The Eastern Cherokee Indian Nation Land, officially known as the Qualla Boundary , is located at 35°28′43″N 83°16′20″W / 35.47861°N 83.27222°W / 35.47861; -83.27222 in western North Carolina ...
They were later joined by Utsala's band from the Nantahala River in western North Carolina, and those few from the Valley Towns who managed to remain in 1838 following Indian Removal of most of the Cherokee to Indian Territory. Principal chiefs: Yonaguska (1824–1839) Salonitah, or Flying Squirrel (1870–1875) Lloyd R. Welch (1875–1880)
Cherokee is located in the Oconaluftee River Valley around the intersection of U.S. Routes 19 and 441. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 2,195. It is the capital of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, one of three recognized Cherokee tribes and the only one in North Carolina.
Map of the Qualla Indian Reserve (circa 1890) Qualla Arts and Crafts Center in Cherokee, North Carolina. The Cherokee were forcibly removed in the late 1830s from much of this area, especially the Black Belt in Georgia and Alabama, under federal authority as authorized by Congress in the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
Some Cherokee in the western area of North Carolina were able to evade removal, and they became the East Band of Cherokee Indians. William Holland Thomas, a white storeowner and state legislator from Jackson County, North Carolina, helped more than 600 Cherokee from Qualla Town to obtain North Carolina citizenship. As they were willing to give ...
The Cherokee Nation's five regional councils of 1794 comprised 1) the Overhill Towns; 2) the Hill Towns; 3) the traditional Valley Towns; 4) the new Upper Towns (these were the former Lower Towns of southern North Carolina, western South Carolina, and northeastern Georgia); and 5) the new Lower Towns (newly occupied settlements located in north ...
Cherokee people are most concentrated in Oklahoma and North Carolina, but some reside in the US West Coast, due to economic migrations caused by the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, job availability during the Second World War, and the Federal Indian Relocation program during the 1950s–1960s.
The Museum of the Cherokee People (MTCP), formerly known as the Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI), is a 501(c)3 nonprofit cultural arts and history museum, educational center, and archive founded in 1948, and located in Cherokee, North Carolina.