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...
3 KB (177 words) - 03:56, 17 April 2023
The Cherokee Female Seminary was built by the Cherokee Nation in 1889 near Tahlequah, Indian Territory. It replaced their original girls' seminary, the...
14 KB (1,475 words) - 19:33, 24 August 2024
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...
23 KB (1,742 words) - 14:47, 21 July 2024
The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli), formerly known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three...
76 KB (8,087 words) - 11:32, 27 August 2024
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...
9 KB (654 words) - 19:29, 27 March 2024
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...
9 KB (899 words) - 23:12, 9 January 2024
a Cherokee politician. In 1839, Fayetteville Female Seminary welcomed its first class of students, which included 14 girls from prominent Cherokee families...
5 KB (532 words) - 16:04, 27 November 2023
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...
9 KB (639 words) - 03:32, 1 June 2024
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...
7 KB (789 words) - 01:55, 7 April 2024
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...
17 KB (1,330 words) - 14:13, 22 July 2024