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Ayâsta, one of three Cherokee storytellers interviewed extensively by James Mooney between 1887 and 1890 for this collection. “She was the only woman privileged to speak in council among the East Cherokee.” Cherokee Nation, Native American Women, Native American Indians, Brave, Black Indians

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Ayâsta, one of three Cherokee storytellers interviewed extensively by James Mooney between 1887 and 1890 for this collection. “She was the only woman privileged to speak in council among the East Cherokee.”

Norma Smallwood - Born Norma Des Cygne Smallwood, she was a full blood Cherokee Indian from Tulsa, Oklahoma. While as a student at Oklahoma State University, she entered the Miss America Pageant in 1926 and was crowned the first Native American to win the title. During the year of her reign, she had an acute business sense demanding a fee for appearances. She reportedly made over 100,000 dollars, more than either Babe Ruth or the President of the United States. Native American Photos, Native Americans, Cherokee Woman

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Norma Smallwood - Born Norma Des Cygne Smallwood, she was a full blood Cherokee Indian from Tulsa, Oklahoma. While as a student at Oklahoma State University, she entered the Miss America Pageant in 1926 and was crowned the first Native American to win the title. During the year of her reign, she had an acute business sense demanding a fee for appearances. She reportedly made over 100,000 dollars, more than either Babe Ruth or the President of the United States.

Cherokee Indian Heritage

Indian Heritage

Cherokee Nation Honors Military Legacy with Memorial Bricks My Heritage, Family Origin, Trail Of Tears, Bricks, Genealogy

Cherokee Nation Honors Military Legacy with Memorial Bricks

Cherokee man smoking a Peace Pipe... First Nations, Old Pictures

Cherokee man smoking a Peace Pipe...

Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee OK. FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES The term "Five Civilized Tribes" came into use during the mid-nineteenth century to refer to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. Although these Indian tribes had various cultural, political, and economic connections before removal in the 1820s and 1830s, the phrase was most widely used in Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Indian Tribes, Five Civilized Tribes, Arts And Crafts House

Five Civilized Tribes

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Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee OK. FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES The term "Five Civilized Tribes" came into use during the mid-nineteenth century to refer to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. Although these Indian tribes had various cultural, political, and economic connections before removal in the 1820s and 1830s, the phrase was most widely used in Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

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Native American Cherokee marbles

A Cherokee woman's prophecy. Native American Songs, Native American Pictures, Dream Catcher Native American, Native American Beauty, American Spirit

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A Cherokee woman's prophecy.

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Native American Images

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Ramona Big Eagle, M.Ed. (Tuscarora/Cherokee) is an Oral Historian and Legend Keeper of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina. Her workshops and programs of American Indian culture and history delivered through the art of Storytelling, authentic artifacts, music, drumming, dance, and crafts have been educating and empowering audiences of all ages since 1976. American Pride, We Will Rock You, Women In History

We Will Rock You

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Ramona Big Eagle, M.Ed. (Tuscarora/Cherokee) is an Oral Historian and Legend Keeper of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina. Her workshops and programs of American Indian culture and history delivered through the art of Storytelling, authentic artifacts, music, drumming, dance, and crafts have been educating and empowering audiences of all ages since 1976.

Long Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee: Lloyd Arneach, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians @ Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual, Inc.

Long Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee: Lloyd Arneach, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians @ Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual, Inc.

Cheyenne baby with lucky charm. Department of Anthropology, 1904 World's Fair. ©Missouri History Museum Native American Children, Cowboys And Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Into The West, Native Indian

Native American Children

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Cheyenne baby with lucky charm. Department of Anthropology, 1904 World's Fair. ©Missouri History Museum

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Cherokee Indian Chief

"Little Cheyenne Boy Bearing Pipe", 1878

"Little Cheyenne Boy Bearing Pipe", 1878

Arlene McKnight

Arlene McKnight

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John Ross, the famous Cherokee chief, owned 100 African slaves in the early 1800s. Cherokees were valuable allies of American slaveholders from at least the Yamasee War (1714) through the U.S. Civil War, when the Cherokees sided with the confederacy. Hand-colored lithograph from the McKenney-Hall History of the Indian tribes of North America (1858), after an 1825 painting by Charles Bird King. Native American Proverb

Native American Proverb

John Ross, the famous Cherokee chief, owned 100 African slaves in the early 1800s. Cherokees were valuable allies of American slaveholders from at least the Yamasee War (1714) through the U.S. Civil War, when the Cherokees sided with the confederacy. Hand-colored lithograph from the McKenney-Hall History of the Indian tribes of North America (1858), after an 1825 painting by Charles Bird King.

U.S. Representative Carter (Cherokee), 1911 by Marquette University Archives,

U.S. Representative Carter (Cherokee), 1911 by Marquette University Archives,

Rita Coolidge - Cherokee Indianand Scottish ancestry - Folk singer once married to Kris Kristofferson Native American Actors, American Songs, American Fashion

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Rita Coolidge - Cherokee Indianand Scottish ancestry - Folk singer once married to Kris Kristofferson

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Wilma Mankiller "In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people." —Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Nov 18, 1945 - Apr 6, 2010), Cherokee Leader

Wilma Mankiller "In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people." —Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Nov 18, 1945 - Apr 6, 2010), Cherokee Leader

WILMA MANKILLER Cherokee Nation Female Chief- As the first female chief of the Cherokees, from 1985 to 1995, Mankiller led the tribe in tripling its enrollment, doubling employment and building new health centers and children's programs. Cherokee Indian Women

Cherokee Indian Women

WILMA MANKILLER Cherokee Nation Female Chief- As the first female chief of the Cherokees, from 1985 to 1995, Mankiller led the tribe in tripling its enrollment, doubling employment and building new health centers and children's programs.

Portrait of Marcia Pascal, a young Cherokee woman, USA, 1880. Source: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) Native American Girls, American Teen, American Frontier, Black And White

Native American Girls

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Black And White

Portrait of Marcia Pascal, a young Cherokee woman, USA, 1880. Source: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology)

"May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your moccasins make make happy tracks in many snows, and may the rainbow always touch your shoulder." Native American Teepee, Native American Decor, Native American Paintings, Cherokee Indian Art

Native American Teepee

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"May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your moccasins make make happy tracks in many snows, and may the rainbow always touch your shoulder."

L-R: Laban Little Wolf, Hairy Hand, Porcupine, Big Beaver - Northern Cheyenne – 1922 Native American Horses, Steve Biko, Apache Indian, Indian Pictures

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L-R: Laban Little Wolf, Hairy Hand, Porcupine, Big Beaver - Northern Cheyenne – 1922