Definition of cherokee Cherokee

/ʧɛˈɹʌkiˌ/ - [cherukee] - Cher•o•kee

We found 8 definitions of cherokee from 5 different sources.

What does cherokee mean?

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cherokee - a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
		iroquois any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
cherokee - the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee

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cherokee
An Iroquoian language spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina in North America.
cherokee
The syllabary for the Cherokee language invented by Sequoyah.
cherokee
An indigenous North American people.

The Cherokee ("ah-ni-yv-wi-ya" in Cherokee) are Native Americans who at the time of European contact in the 16th century lived in the area that is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark hills. They were one of the tribes referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes.

Cherokee people did not live in tepees. They lived in houses made from wood. In the 19th Century, a man named Sequoyah introduced a form of writing the Cherokee language. For this, he was awarded a medal.

Chief John Ross was the leader of the Cherokee tribe from 1818 until 1867. He lived in Georgia before being forced to move to the place now called Oklahoma.