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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 ...
Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
Pages in category "Native American tribes in North Carolina" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Published in History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Early in the 19th century, the Cherokees were led by Principal Chiefs Little Turkey (1788–1801), Black Fox (1801–1811), and Pathkiller (1811–1827). The seat of the Cherokee after 1788 was at Ustanali (near Calhoun, Georgia); [24] in 1825 nearby New Echota became the Cherokee capital.
They are not currently federally recognized as a Native American tribe. [27] They are: Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, based in Halifax and Warren counties [26] Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, based in Mebane, North Carolina, [26] organized in 1984 as the Eno-Occaneechi Indian Association, added Saponi to its name in 1995, [28] state ...
In 1910, the North Carolina state legislature renamed the Croatan Indians in North Carolina to "Cherokee." [16] A historical marker placed by the state of Georgia states: "In 1870 a group of Croatan Indians migrated from their homes in Robeson County North Carolina, following the turpentine industry to southeast Georgia. Eventually, many of the ...
Census of the Cherokee Nation estimated 5000 Cherokee in the west counted the following people in the east: Georgia: 8946 Indians, 776 slaves, 68 whites; North Carolina: 3644 Indians, 37 slaves, 22 whites (this excluded the Oconaluftee under Yonaguska in Haywood County, North Carolina, who were considered state citizens); Tennessee: 2528 ...