The first Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school opened by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in Park Hill, Oklahoma. On Easter Sunday 1887, a fire burned...
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The Cherokee Female Seminary was built by the Cherokee Nation in 1889 near Tahlequah, Indian Territory. It replaced their original girls' seminary, the...
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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...
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majority by the 1890s. In 1851, the Cherokee Male Seminary opened in Tahlequah and the Cherokee Female Seminary opened in Park Hill. The latter burned...
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The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the...
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The Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama (CTNEAL), formerly the Cherokees of Jackson County, is a state-recognized tribe in Alabama. They have about 3,000...
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The Museum of the Cherokee People (MTCP), formerly known as the Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI), is a 501(c)3 nonprofit cultural arts and history museum...
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Blood Law (category Cherokee culture)
societies," including the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Delaware, Hopi, Miami, Natchez, Navajo and Seneca. In 1824 the western Cherokee passed new laws "forbidding...
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Shawna Baker (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation)
Baker, a Native American lawyer, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is the third woman and the first out, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
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a Cherokee politician. In 1839, Fayetteville Female Seminary welcomed its first class of students, which included 14 girls from prominent Cherokee families...
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is a list of plants documented to have been traditionally used by the Cherokee, and how they are used. Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides (commonly known...
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Cherokee headman of Cayuga town, eventually rising to Principal Chief of the first Cherokee Nation. He was one of the "Old Settlers" of the Cherokee Nation—West...
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties...
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1837) was a wealthy farmer and leader of the Cherokee Nation. In a time of crisis, the National Cherokee Council named Hicks the interim Principal Chief...
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contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics...
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Fort Cass (category 19th-century Cherokee history)
Lewis Cass (1782–1866), was a fort located on the site of the U.S. federal agency to the Cherokee Nation (present-day Charleston, Tennessee). Established...
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London. Oklahoma's Cherokee Female Seminary (now Northeastern State University) acquired its "first faculty for their female seminary from Mount Holyoke...
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Northeastern State University (category Articles containing Cherokee-language text)
May 7, 1851, the Cherokee Nation founded the Cherokee National Female Seminary at Tahlequah, the same year that it opened a male seminary in its territory...
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Oregon Cherokee Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, open 1851–1910; this was established by the Cherokee Nation Cherokee Male...
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to the Cherokee Nation on March 18, 1895. Ani-kutani Black Indians in the United States Cherokee Cherokee Clans Cherokee Female Seminary Cherokee Heritage...
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graduated the first female physicians in the country and the first black female physicians. 1851: Cherokee Female Seminary was the first institute of higher...
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Kimberly Teehee (category Cherokee Nation women)
Kimberly Teehee (born October 13, 1968) is a Cherokee attorney, politician, and activist on Native American issues. She is a Delegate-designate to the...
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Carrie Bushyhead Quarles (category Cherokee Nation people (1794–1907))
(Cherokee, March 17, 1834 – February 23, 1909) was a Native American, graduated in the first class of students from the First Cherokee Female Seminary...
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Park Hill, Oklahoma (category Census-designated places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma)
moved to Tahlequah. The Cherokee Female Seminary was built here in 1849. Park Hill was the center of culture for the Cherokees for many years, and as such...
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Takatoka (category Articles containing Cherokee-language text)
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation—West (1813–1817) established in the old Arkansaw Territory. Takatoka was an early Cherokee Old Settler who emigrated...
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as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. It now serves as the site of the tribal supreme court and...
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contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics...
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Tahlequah, Oklahoma (category CS1 uses Cherokee-language script (chr))
the first telephone company in Indian Territory was built. The Cherokee Female Seminary, which had originally been constructed in Park Hill, burned in...
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Trail (part) Cherokee National Forest (part) Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area Roan Mountain State Park Sabine Hill State Historic Site Hampton Creek...
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J. B. Milam (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation)
started negotiations for the tribe to purchase the site of the original Cherokee National Female Seminary, the tribal college in Park Hill, Oklahoma, that...
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