Cherokee
noun/ˈtʃerəkiː/
/ˈtʃerəkiː/
(plural Cherokee, Cherokees)
- a member of a native North American people, many of whom now live in the US states of Oklahoma and North CarolinaCultureThe Cherokee people lived by farming and trading. Their language was put into writing in 1826 by Sequoyah, and they had a government called the Cherokee Nation. The US government moved them in 1838 from Georgia to Oklahoma, and many died on the journey, called the Trail of Tears.Word Originfrom obsolete Cherokee (the language of the Cherokee people) tsaraki, earlier form of tsaliki.
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