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See also:CHEROKEE (native Tsalagi, " See also:cave See also:people ") , a tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Iroquoian stock. Next to the See also:Navaho they are the largest tribe in the See also:United States and live mostly in See also:Oklahoma (formerly See also:Indian territory). Before their removal they possessed a large See also:tract of See also:country now distributed among the states of See also:Alabama, See also:Georgia, See also:Mississippi, See also:Tennessee and the See also:west of See also:Florida. Their See also:chief divisions were then settled around the See also:head-See also:waters of the See also:Savannah and Tennessee See also:rivers, and were distinguished as the Elati Tsalagi or See also:Lower Cherokees, i.e. those in the plains, and Atali Tsalagi or Upper Cherokees, i.e. those on the mountains. They were further divided into seven exogamous clans. Fernando de See also:Soto travelled through their country in 1540, and during the next three centuries they were important factors in the See also:history of the See also:south. They attached themselves to the See also:English in the disputes and contests which arose between the See also:European colonizers, formally recognized the English See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in 1730, and in 1955 ceded a See also:part of their territory and permitted the erection of English forts. Unfortunately this amity was interrupted not See also:long after; but See also:peace was again restored in 1761. When the revolutionary See also:war See also:broke out they sided with the royalist party. This led to their subjugation by the new See also:republic, and they had to surrender that part of their lands which See also:lay to the south of the Savannah and See also:east of the Chattahoochee. Peace was made in 1781, and in 1785 they recognized the supremacy of the United States and were confirmed in their possessions. In 182o they adopted a civilized See also:form of See also:government, and in 1827, as a " Nation," a formal constitution. The See also:gradual advance of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:immigration soon led to disputes with the settlers, who desired their removal, and See also:exodus after exodus took See also:place; a small part of the tribe agreed (1835) to remove to another See also:district, but the See also:main See also:body remained. An See also:appeal was made by them to the United States government; but See also:President See also:Andrew See also:Jackson refused to interfere. A force of 2000 men, under the command of See also:General See also:Winfield See also:Scott, was sent in 1838, and the Cherokees were compelled to emigrate to their See also:present position. After the See also:settlement various disagreements between the eastern and western Cherokees continued for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but in 1839 a See also:union was effected. In the See also:Civil War they all at first sided with the
South; but before long a strong party joined the North, and this led to a disastrous internecine struggle. On the cline of the contest they were confirmed in the See also:possession of their territory, but were forced to give a portion of their lands to their emancipated slaves. Their later history is mainly a See also:story of hopeless struggle to maintain their tribal See also:independence against the white See also:man. In 1892 they sold their western territory known as the " Cherokee outlet." Until 1906, when tribal government virtually ceased, the " nation " had an elected chief, a See also:senate and See also:house of representatives. Many of them have become Christians, See also:schools have been established and there is a tribal See also:press. Those in Oklahoma still number some 26,000, .though most are of mixed See also:blood. A See also:group, known as the Eastern See also:Band, some 1400 strong, are on a See also:reservation in North Carolina. Their See also:language consists of two dialects—a third, that of the " Lower " See also:branch, having been lost. The syllabic See also:alphabet invented in 1821 by See also:George Guess (Sequoyah) is the See also:character employed.
See also Handbook of American Indians (See also:Washington, 1907) ; T. V. See also:Parker, Cherokee Indians (N. Y., 19o9); and INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN.
End of Article: CHEROKEE (native Tsalagi, " cave people ")
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