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Cherokee

Iowa, United States
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Cherokee, city, seat (1861) of Cherokee county, northwestern Iowa, U.S., on the Little Sioux River, about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Sioux City. A colony from Milford, Massachusetts, settled a site north of the present city in 1856. Sioux attacked the settlement the following year (in what became known as the Spirit Lake Massacre), causing many residents to flee. The community was moved to its present location in 1870 to be closer to the...

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