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Pages in category "Surnames of Native American origin" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
The Cherokee have seven clans and have had that number as long as there has been contact with Europeans. Some have multiple names, and according to ethnographer James Mooney the seven are the result of consolidation of as many as what was previously fourteen separate clans in more ancient times.
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States who have stated they are of Cherokee descent in published sources. For people who are enrolled in Cherokee tribes, see Category:Cherokee people. For people with unverified claims of Cherokee ancestry, see: Category:American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent.
Full bloods claimed to be Black Irish or Black Dutch, thus denying their rightful Native American blood. After being fully assimilated into the general population years later, these Irish Cherokee mixed-blood descendants, began reclaiming their Native American heritage in the land of the Warrior Mountains, Lawrence County, Alabama.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Stand Watie, Cherokee leader and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; John Watts (also known as Young Tassel), a leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the Cherokee-American wars; Dragging Canoe, Cherokee war chief; Pushmataha, Choctaw chief and U.S. Army Brigadier General
Cherokee – named after the Cherokee people. Cheyenne Valley – named after the Cheyenne people. Cisco; Cuba – named after the country of Cuba. Cubana; Decota; Etowah; Havaco; Havana – named after the eponymous Cuban capital. Hiawatha – named after the eponymous Iroquois chief. Hoohoo; Iroquois – named after the Iroquois people. Iuka