The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.
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I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
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