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  2. Cherokee in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Braves Flag, as flown by Cherokee General Stand Watie.. Chief of the Cherokee John Ross was adamant that the Union was not dissolved. However, another leader of the Cherokee, Stand Watie, joined the Confederate cause, and on June 1, 1861, began recruiting for all-Indian units that became part of the Confederate army.

  3. 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (also known as the 1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles and the "Cherokee Braves") was a cavalry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.

  4. Indian cavalry - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Braves Flag, as flown by Stand Watie. The Choctaw Nation Flag, adopted in 1860 and carried by the tribal brigades. [citation needed] 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles – Col. (later Brigadier) Stand Watie, Col. John Drew; Thomas' Legion / 69th North Carolina Infantry – Col. William H. Thomas; Scales'/Fry's Battalion of Cherokee Cavalry

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    The group often used as evidence of local tribe support for the chop is the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe in western North Carolina descended from a small group of ...

  7. List of Washington Commanders seasons - Wikipedia

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    The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area. They are members of the East division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Commanders were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the local baseball franchise. [1]

  8. Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) - Wikipedia

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    By additional treaties signed with the U.S., in 1817 (Treaty of the Cherokee Agency, 8 July 1817) and 1819 (Treaty of Washington, 27 February 1819), the Cherokee exchanged remaining communal lands in Georgia (north of the Hiwassee River), Tennessee, and North Carolina for lands in the Arkansaw Territory west of the Mississippi River. A majority ...

  9. Stand Watie - Wikipedia

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    Stand Watie was born on December 12, 1806, at Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation (present-day Calhoun, Georgia), the son of Uwatie (Cherokee for "the ancient one", sometimes spelled Oowatie), a full-blood Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, daughter of a white father and Cherokee mother. [2]