Psicologia
In the 19th century, white settlers in theUnited States called the Cherokee one of the "Five Civilized Tribes", because they had assimilated numerous cultural and technological practices of European American settlers. The Cherokee were one ofthe first, if not the first, major non-European ethnic group to become U.S. citizens. Article 8 in the 1817 treaty with the Cherokee stated Cherokees may wish to become citizen of the United States.[5]According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 members, the largest of the 565 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States.[6]
Of the threefederally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) have headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The UKB are mostly descendants of "Old Settlers",Cherokee who migrated to Arkansas and Oklahoma about 1817. The Cherokee Nation are related to the people who were forcibly relocated there in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act. The Eastern Band ofCherokee Indians is located on the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina.
In addition, there are Cherokee bands in the Southeast that are recognized as tribes by state governments, such as theEchota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, but not the U.S. federal government.
Habitat
The Cherokee lived in the mountains and valleys of the southern Appalachian Mountains. They moved into the area which...
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