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  2. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Cherokee Indian Nation Land, officially known as the Qualla Boundary, is located at in western North Carolina, just south of Great Smoky Mountains National The main part of the reserve lies in eastern Swain County and northern Jackson County , but smaller non-contiguous sections are located to the southwest in Cherokee and Graham ...

  3. Cherokee, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee is located in the Oconaluftee River Valley around the intersection of U.S. Routes 19 and 441. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 2,195. It is the capital of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, one of three recognized Cherokee tribes and the only one in North Carolina.

  4. List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    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 band formed after the treaties of 1817 and 1819 were made between the Cherokee Nation East and the US government; they were outside the former territory.

  5. Qualla Boundary - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee who gained the ability to live in North Carolina were considered to be an independent band from the Cherokee Nation living in Oklahoma. [ 10 ] In the 1930s, the federal government requested the tribe to cede land for the construction of a new motorway, called the Blue Ridge Parkway , that would cut through the Qualla Boundary to ...

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

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    Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will vote Thursday on whether their Tribal Council should legalize the recreational use of marijuana on their reservation in western North Carolina.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    Today, three Cherokee tribes are federally recognized: the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation (CN) in Oklahoma, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) in North Carolina. [13] The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 tribal members, making it the largest of the 574 federally recognized ...

  9. 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 ...