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Cherokee
People ID: 2255
Type: ethnic group
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- UPDATED: 8.11.2025
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AKA:
Ani'-Yun'wiya
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notes:
Today, there are reportedly over 200 unrecognized communities with the word Cherokee in their name. While some of these tribes could have members with Cherokee ancestry, many of the groups appropriate Indigenous culture for profit. There are only 3 federally recognized Cherokee tribes (see list below).
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recognized bands:
connections:
locations:
Ashe County, NC | Boone (Watauga Co, NC) | Carter County, KY | Cherokee, NC | Chota (Cherokee town) | Eastern Woodlands (region) | Indian Mound (Stewart Co, TN) | Letcher County, KY | North Carolina | Qualla Boundary, NC | South Carolina | Turkey Cove (Lee Co, VA) | Wilkes County, NC | Wise County, VA | Eastern Kentucky
RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
resources:
Cherokee Ancestry Resource Guide
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided
Exploring Your Cherokee Ancestry: A Basic Genealogical Research Guide
Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
In the Land of the Cherokee + the Warrior Dance
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence
Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee
Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
Compilation of History of the Cherokee Indians and Early History of the Cherokees
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
mentions:
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants
Melungeon Voices S3 E3 – Katya Faris- Melungeon Voices S5 E3 – Discovering Melungeon & Indigenous Ancestry
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
The Graysville Melungeons: A Tri-Racial People in Lower East Tennessee
Lee County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
Melungeon History and Myth
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Melungeons Yesterday and Today
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
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