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2. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - Wikipedia

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   The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the others being the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, both based in Oklahoma. The EBCI headquarters is in the namesake community of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Qualla Boundary, south of the Great Smoky Mountains ...

3. Qualla Boundary - Wikipedia

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   828. GNIS feature ID. 1018039 [3] 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 ...

4. Historic Cherokee settlements - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Tribe could soon be the first to bring recreational marijuana ...

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   Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will vote on the recreational use of marijuana on their reservation in western North Carolina. ... the sovereign tribal nation has the authority to ...

6. Cherokee Nation - Wikipedia

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   The Cherokee Nation was seriously destabilized in May 1997 in what was variously described as either a nationalist "uprising" or an "anti-constitutional coup" instigated by Joe Byrd, the Principal Chief. [8] Elected in 1995, Byrd became locked in a battle of strength with the judicial branch of the Cherokee tribe.

7. Clingmans Dome no more: Cherokee name for Great Smoky ... - AOL

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   The Cherokee people have always called the 6,643-foot mountain straddling the North Carolina-Tennessee border Kuwohi and have long considered it a sacred place.

8. List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee - Wikipedia

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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.

9. Cherokee history - Wikipedia

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   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 ...