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Nimrod Jarret Smith (1837–1893) was 4th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band and a Confederate Army veteran of the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is made up of descendants of Cherokee primarily from along the Oconaluftee River in Western North Carolina, in today's Cherokee County. The ...
A Cherokee-language name for Cherokee people is Aniyvwiya (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, translating as ' Principal People '). [16] Another endonym is Anigiduwagi (ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ, translating as ' People from Kituwah '). [17] Tsalagi Gawonihisdi (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ) is the Cherokee name for the Cherokee language. [18] [19]
In 1975, the tribe drafted a constitution, under the name Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which was ratified on June 26, 1976. [6] In 1985 Wilma Mankiller was elected as the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. [7]
Following lobbying from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names unanimously voted Sept. 18 to restore Kuwohi as the mountain’s name.
Cherokee born outside of a clan or outsiders who were taken into the tribe in ancient times had to be adopted into a clan by a clan mother. If the person was a woman who had born a Cherokee child and was married to a Cherokee man, she could be taken into a new clan. Her husband was required to leave his clan and live with her in her new clan.
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
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.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names this week approved a formal request by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The effort was started in 2022 by band members Mary Crowe and Lavita Hill, who ...