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Definition of Cherokee

1. Noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee.

2. Noun. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma.

Definition of Cherokee

1. Proper noun. An indigenous North American people. ¹

2. Proper noun. Their Iroquoian language, still spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina. ¹

3. Proper noun. A syllabary for the Cherokee language invented by Sequoyah. ¹

4. Noun. A member of this people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherokee

Cherbourg Cheremis Cheremiss Cherenkov effect Cherenkov radiation Cherepovets Cheri Cherkasy Cherkess Autonomous Oblast Cherkessk

Chermidae Chernihiv Chernivtsi Chernobyl Chernobyls Cherokee (current term) Cherokee rose Cherokees Cherry Cherubini

Cherusci Cheryl Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay retriever Cheshire Cheshire cat Cheshire cheese Cheshvan Chessy copper Chester

Literary usage of Cherokee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"The subject-matter was described to be "to recover from the Cherokee Nation all moneys due, either in law or equity, and unpaid to the . . . freedmen, ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1907)
"to November 1, 1875, when a Cherokee law became effective which declared that sick persons by intermarriage acquired no rights of soil or interest in the ..."

3. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"Whereas by an act of the Cherokee legislature, which was passed over the veto of the principal chief and became a law on the nineteenth day of May, ..."

4. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Mentions Cherokee belief that their ancestors found a race of ... Address given at the Female Seminary, Cherokee Nation, before his move to Arkansas. ..."

5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1893)
"Quartz Cherokee, Riley, Woodson. In small crystals, abundant in many parts of ... Hydrozincite Cherokee. 313. Orthoclase Found in drift. 338. Hornblende . ..."

6. Reports ... 2d Series by International Labour Office, United States Tariff Commission (1915)
"The upper part of the Cherokee, however, \vas deposited under as uniform conditions as any part of the Henrietta, and, in a few districts, ..."

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