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  2. List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Nation–East adopted a written constitution in 1827, creating a government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The Principal Chief was elected by the National Council, which was the legislature of the Nation. The Cherokee Nation–West adopted a similar constitution in 1833.

  3. Chieftains Museum - Wikipedia

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    Chieftains Museum, also known as the Major Ridge Home, is a two-story white frame house built around a log house of 1819 in Cherokee country (today it is within present-day Rome, Georgia, United States of America). It was the home of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge.

  4. Joel B. Mayes - Wikipedia

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    Mayes was born on October 2, 1833, in present-day Carterville, Bartow County, Georgia to the former Nancy Adair (b. 1808, and part-Cherokee) and her husband Samuel Mayes (1803-1858, and adopted into the Cherokee tribe upon his marriage in 1825).

  5. List of Native American leaders of the Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee: Sakayengwaraton: 1792–1886 1810s Mohawk: Shingas: fl. 1740–1763 Lenape: Chief Seattle: c. 1780–1866 Suquamish-Duwamish: Sitting Bull: c. 1831–1890 1870s–1890s Lakota Spotted Elk: c. 1826–1890 1870s–1890s Lakota

  6. Timeline of Cherokee history - Wikipedia

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    After Watts negotiated a surrender, another Cherokee chieftain, Doublehead, attacked and killed the homesteaders, despite the attempts of Watts and James Vann to stop him. The incident broke up the invasion force and began a bitter rivalry between Vann and Doublehead, which caused a rift in the Cherokee Nation lasting long past their deaths.

  7. Pathkiller - Wikipedia

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    Pathkiller was the last hereditary chief of the Cherokee Nation.He was the principal chief of the Nation from 1811 to 1828. [3]A description of Cherokee Council sessions was given by the missionary, Ard Hoyt, on a visit to the seat of Cherokee government in October 1818:

  8. Conocotocko II - Wikipedia

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    Cunne Shote, Cherokee Chief, by Francis Parsons (English), 1762, oil on canvas, Gilcrease Museum. Conocotocko [a] / ˌ k ʌ n ə k ə ˈ t oʊ k oʊ / (Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎦᏙᎦ, romanized: Gvnagadoga, "Standing Turkey"), also known by the folk-etymologized name Cunne Shote, [b] was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1760.

  9. Samuel Houston Mayes - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Houston Mayes was born May 11, 1845, near Stilwell, Oklahoma to Samuel and Nancy (Adair) Mayes. His mother Nancy Adair was of Scots-Cherokee descent, a granddaughter of Ga-hoga, a full-blood Cherokee woman of the Deer clan.