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Cherokees

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Cher·o·kee  (chr-k, chr-k)
n. pl. Cherokee or Cher·o·kees
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the southern Appalachian Mountains from the western Carolinas and eastern Tennessee to northern Georgia, with present-day populations in northeast Oklahoma and western North Carolina. The Cherokee were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s after conflict with American settlers over rights to traditional lands.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Cherokee.
[From Cherokee tsalaki.]
Chero·kee adj.


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The remnants of the Mohicans, and the Delawares, of the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees, are destined to fulfil their time on these vast plains.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
The barbarous savage nations of Shawanese, Cherokees, Wyandots, Tawas, Delawares, and several others near Detroit, united in a war against us, and assembled their choicest warriors at old Chelicothe, to go on the expedition, in order to destroy us, and entirely depopulate the country.
Adventures Of Col. Daniel Boone by Filson, John View in context
Fancy him on a South Sea island, with the Cherokees, or Patagonians, or some such wild niggers
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
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