History of the Cherokee Indians: Growth to Reduction of the tribes

Mary Ruef

Axia College University of Phoenix





I would like to provide you with some information regarding the Cherokee Indians. I am one quarter Cherokee Indian. My grandmother is full blooded Cherokee and may mother is one half Cherokee. Cherokee comes from a creek word “Cherokee” meaning “people of a different speech” (Cherokee history 1996).
There are 561 officially recognized Indian tribes in the United States. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the largest database of records and histories of Native American tribes in the country.
The language of the Cherokee Indian is Iroquian, although the Cherokee language differs slightly from the Iroquian language.
Before the coming of the Europeans my family the Cherokee’s were forced to migrate to the southern Appalachians from the northwest after a defeat at the hands of the Iroquois and Delaware.
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