John Rogers was the last elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation West elected in December 1838 by the faction of Old Settlers who rejected the Cherokee...

Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah...

Rogers (Cherokee chief) (1779–1846), last elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation West John Sill Rogers (1796–1860), American politician John Rogers...

Charles Rogers (December 13, 1847 – November 8, 1917) was a Cherokee politician, Confederate veteran and farmer. He served as Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation...

Dianna Rogers (also known as Tiana or Talihina Rogers, 1790s – November 4, 1838) was an Old Settler Cherokee who emigrated from Tennessee to the Arkansas...

University and Rogers State University. He served two previous Cherokee Nation chiefs as Director of Tribal Planning, Legal Historian, Cherokee Nation Prosecutor...

the Cherokee Nation in the 1900s and the death of William Charles Rogers in 1917, the Federal government began to appoint chiefs to the Cherokee Nation...

Bill John Baker (born February 9, 1952) is a Cherokee politician who served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. First elected in October 2011,...

an agreeable compromise Principal Chief John Ross met with President Jackson to discuss the possibility that Cherokee might give up some of their land...

John Jolly (Cherokee: Ahuludegi; also known as Oolooteka) was a leader of the Cherokee in Tennessee, the Arkansaw district of the Missouri Territory, and...

contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics...

Cherokee headman of Cayuga town, eventually rising to Principal Chief of the first Cherokee Nation. He was one of the "Old Settlers" of the Cherokee Nation—West...

Cherokee history is the written and oral lore, traditions, and historical record maintained by the living Cherokee people and their ancestors. In the 21st...

Canoe who became the first Chicamauga Chief, separated from the Upper Cherokee. Division amongst the Cherokee can be demonstrated by a letter sent from...

John Looney (c 1782-1846) was a Cherokee chief. As a young man, he served in the United States Army under Andrew Jackson. He later became chief of the...

Rogers (1839–1911) and Mary America Schrimsher (1838–1890), were both mixed-race with Cherokee ancestry, and considered themselves Cherokee. Rogers quipped...

Constitutional Convention. Rogers was the father of entertainer Will Rogers. When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, the former Cherokee Districts were dissolved...

American West. A few Cherokees remained, the most famous being Sarah Cordery (1785–1842), the half-blood Cherokee wife of pioneer John Rogers (1774–1851), and...

Cherokee syllabics. The Cherokee (/ˈtʃɛrəkiː, ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː/; Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, romanized: Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, romanized: Tsalagi)...

was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1995 to 1999. Byrd is bilingual, with an ability to communicate in both Cherokee and English. He ran...

The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ or Anigiduwagi Aniyvwiya, abbreviated United Keetoowah Band or UKB) is a federally...

farmer and leader of the Cherokee Nation. In a time of crisis, the National Cherokee Council named Hicks the interim Principal Chief in October 1827. He served...

the fourth Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is noted for the 1875 amendments to the Eastern Band Cherokee Constitution and the...

part of the Cherokee Nation. The Rogers family, for whom the county is named, were among the first European-American settlers. Clem Rogers, father of the...

(born February 7, 1975) is a Cherokee Nation politician and attorney currently serving as the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation since 2019. He was re-elected...

War. After Cherokee Principal Chief John Ross signed a treaty of alliance with the Confederate States in October 1861, he and the Cherokee Council authorized...

The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier...

to have been organized in Pawhuska, in May 1909 by John F. Mitchell. Pawhuska is in the Cherokee Area Council. In 1917, the Guthrie Council was formed...

November 2011, at the request of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Bill John Baker, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma enacted the Corporate...

community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment...