Southeast Tribes

Cherokee in Arkansas

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January 1, 2017

At the time of European contact, the Cherokee inhabited a region consisting of what is now western North Carolina and parts of Virginia, Georgia, and eastern Tennessee. Over the next two centuries, the tribe expanded through the southern Appalachians, reaching further into Georgia as well as into South Carolina, northeastern Alabama, and across the Cumberland River into Kentucky and West Virginia; some of this expansion occurred following the displacement of other tribes.

By the 1780s, Cherokee migration into Arkansas had begun, largely in response to pressure to move away from Euro-American settlements in the East following the Revolutionary War.

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History of the Georgia Creek Indians

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August 20, 2016

The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia’s colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the new state in the 1800s.

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Most of Georgia was home to the Creek Confederacy

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August 14, 2015

Prior to the early 18th Century, most of Georgia was home to American Indians belonging to a southeastern alliance known as the Creek Confederacy. Today’s Creek Nation, also known as the Muskogee, were the major tribe in that alliance.

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Cherokee Center Puts Documentation Services Online

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May 13, 2008

The Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center now provides a quick and simple way for people of Cherokee blood to register online, document their heritage, and learn more about who they are.

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Sarcoidosis is Not strictly a Melungeon Disease

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March 20, 2008

AUTHOR: Janet Crain

Another Internet Myth about Melungeons and Native Americans that needs to be addressed is that Melungeons are all afflicted by Sarcoidosis. This is simply not true.

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Seminoles have a rags-to-riches story

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April 27, 2007

AUTHOR: Sue Reisinger, Seminole Corporate Counsel

Several times last autumn, the Florida Seminoles’ efforts to buy Hard Rock Cafe International Inc. hit a snag. Some tribal leaders balked at spending nearly a billion dollars for the hotel/restaurant/casino franchise; they didn’t want to hear advice from outsiders, such as Wall Street investment bankers, to go ahead with the deal. It was tribe’s general counsel, Jim Shore — the first Seminole to graduate from law school — who saved the day and the deal.

He oversaw the negotiations, worked with the bankers, and supervised the tribe’s outside lawyers. Then he soothed the leaders’ anxiety. For seven months he repeatedly called, visited or emailed the tribe’s five elected council members, answering their questions, easing their doubts, and sharing his vision for the Seminoles’ future. The leaders were “a little bit cautious because we’re talking big bucks here. They had to be satisfied with the numbers,” Shore says.

But in the end Shore and the Seminoles prevailed over 69 other bidders. On Dec. 7 the tribe announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the Hard Rock franchise for $965 million from the London-based Rank Group Plc. Rank’s shareholders approved the sale on Jan. 8, and the deal closed last March. The Seminole Indians gained control of the two Hard Rock casinos on Florida Seminole reservations, plus 124 Hard Rock Cafes in 45 countries, five hotels, two Hard Rock live performance venues, and the Hard Rock brand name.

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Cherokee healer says to remember and follow the traditions

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April 24, 2007

AUTHOR: Betty Smith Crosslin Smith, Cherokee Traditionalist Cherokee traditionalist Crosslin Smith explains the principles set down by the creator. “Maintaining the spiritual tradition handed down through centuries is vital to a person’s health in today’s society,” Smith said Friday.

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Some Creeks had owned slaves prior to 1865, and by treaty they were required to adopt them into the tribe

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October 20, 2005

Pleasant Porter was elected principal chief on September 5, 1899, on a platform of compromise with the federal government. In addition to dealing with tribal dissension over the agreement, Porter also had to try to resolve the controversial question of the rights of the freedmen.

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The Dawes Commission adopted a very narrow view of their powers

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October 20, 2005

On August 4, 1898, Aylesworth gave Isparhecher a signed receipt for twenty-five 1896 town census rolls. It had taken more than two years of requests and then threats of court action to get just one of the “official rolls.” The ninety days that the Dawes Commission had to decide applications under the 1896 act had, of course, long since elapsed.

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The Creeks were overwhelmingly opposed to allotment

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October 20, 2005

The Creeks were overwhelmingly opposed to allotment or any change in the treaty of 1832, which had forced them to move to Indian Territory. One full-blood expressed a common sentiment when he told a Senate investigating committee that “I love my treaty, and I want my old treaty back.”(21) He went on to say that “I will never stop asking for this treaty, the old treaty that our fathers made with the Government which gave us this land forever … as long as the grass grows, water runs, and the sun rises.”(22)

At a meeting held in Okmulgee on April 3, 1894, the commissioners explained at great length to a crowd of nearly three thousand (mostly full-bloods) all of the benefits allotment would bring, but the entire group “voted” against the plan.(23)

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The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks

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October 20, 2005

What can you do when you “discover” a continent, but there are already people living there? Europeans arriving in North America tried a number of approaches to solve what was often referred to as “the Indian Problem,” depending on the relative military power of the natives and non-natives.

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Seminole Homes are called chickees

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Seminole indians lived in a house called a chickee.

September 23, 2005

Seminole Indians lived in a home called a Chickee.

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Enrollment requirements for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma

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April 3, 2005

The criteria for citizenship is that you must trace back to a direct ancestor listed on the 1906 Dawes Roll by issuance of birth and/or death certificates.

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Citizenship criteria for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma

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April 3, 2005

The criteria for citizenship is that you must trace back to a direct ancestor listed on the 1906 Dawes Roll by issuance of birth and/or death certificates.

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Seminole Tribe of Florida Overview

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March 31, 2005

As the name says, the Seminole Tribe of Florida is from the state of Florida.

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Cherokee in Arkansas

History of the Georgia Creek Indians

Most of Georgia was home to the Creek Confederacy

Cherokee Center Puts Documentation Services Online

Sarcoidosis is Not strictly a Melungeon Disease

Seminoles have a rags-to-riches story

Cherokee healer says to remember and follow the traditions

Some Creeks had owned slaves prior to 1865, and by treaty they were required to adopt them into the tribe

The Dawes Commission adopted a very narrow view of their powers

The Creeks were overwhelmingly opposed to allotment

The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks

Seminole Homes are called chickees

Enrollment requirements for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma

Citizenship criteria for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma

Seminole Tribe of Florida Overview