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Cherokee: Quick Facts

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Faded front page of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper from March 6, 1828, featuring English and Cherokee syllabary text in multiple columns under a phoenix emblem.
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Dragging-Canoe
Cherokee chieftain
Nancy Ward
Nancy Ward
Native American leader
Ross, John
John Ross
chief of Cherokee Nation
Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller
Native American leader
Stand Watie
Stand Watie
Cherokee chief
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Gideon Blackburn
American minister
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James Mooney
American anthropologist

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