USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Today, the Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States with more than 430, 000 tribal citizens worldwide. More than 141, 000 Cherokee Nation citizens reside within the tribe’s reservation boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Today, Cherokee people continue the old, sacred dance traditions unique to their tribe. They also sing gospel music and hymns in English and Cherokee, usually with three-part harmony and accompanied by a guitar, much in the style of the Carter Family, often using shape-note melodies and 19th-century camp meeting hymns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally located in the southeastern United States in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, the Cherokee Nation was forced to relocate to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838 after gold was discovered in our homelands.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.