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Cherokee - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 25th Dec, 2010 - 12:17am
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Post Date: 20th Apr, 2006 - 2:33pm / Post ID: #
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Post Date: 13th May, 2006 - 2:43am / Post ID: #
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The Cherokee system was based more on responsibility for wrongful actions than on the notion of "justice" in the western sense of the word. Rather than justice, the Cherokee system was ideal for keeping balance and harmony in the spiritual and social worlds. One day, some Cherokee children were playing outside, when a rattlesnake crawled out of the grass. They screamed and their mother ran outside. Without thinking, she took a stick and killed it. Her husband was hunting in the mountains. As he was returning home that night, he heard a strange wailing sound. Looking around, he found himself in the midst of a gathering of rattlesnakes, whose mouths were open and crying. "What is the matter," the man asked the snakes. The rattlesnakes responded, "Your wife killed our chief, the Yellow Rattlesnake today. We are preparing to send the Black Rattlesnake to take revenge." The husband immediately accepted their claim and took responsibility for the crime. The rattlesnakes said, "If you speak the truth, you must be ready to make satisfaction." The price they demanded was the life of his wife in sacrifice for that of their chief. Not knowing what else might occur, the man consented. The rattlesnakes told the man that the Black Rattlesnake would follow him home and coil up outside his door. He was to ask his wife to bring him a fresh drink of water from the spring. That was all. When the man reached home, it was very dark. His wife had supper waiting for him. "Please bring me some water," he asked her. She brought him a gourd from the jar, but he refused it. "No," he said. "I would like some fresh water from the spring." His wife took a bowl and stepped outside to get him some fresh water. The man immediately heard her cry. He went outside and found the Black Rattlesnake had bitten her and she was already dying. He stayed with her until she was dead. The Black Rattlesnake then crawled out of the grass. "My tribe is now satisfied," he told the husband. He then taught the man a prayer song. The Black Rattlesnake told him, "When you meet any of us hereafter, sing this song and we will not hurt you. If by accident one of us should bite you, sing this song over the person and he will recover." And the Cherokee have kept this song to this day. |
The Cherokee indians have a long proud history, with its laws and traditions making its way into our european culture in various places. The Cherokee way was often much like eastern religious practices keeping a balance and harmony in nature, family, and personal life. I find that the more I read about the Cherokee, the more I fall in love with their culture. Much of their laws and history is not convey through fact and set guide lines as much as oral tradition of stories and fables.
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Post Date: 5th Mar, 2007 - 9:46pm / Post ID: #
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Cherokee History & Civil Business Politics
CHEROKEES REVOKE TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP OF SLAVE DESCENDANTS
Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...kee-slaves.html
Post Date: 29th Jan, 2008 - 12:32am / Post ID: #
Cherokee
We Cherokee are pretty much the coolest kids on the block. 
We really do have a long and proud history, we are proud people. We welcome interest from outsiders, but we don't like for all these white people to claim that they're Cherokee when they can't prove it.
I actually have my own website on the Cherokee people.
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The Cherokee tribe is large so many people have Cherokee blood. This also is because of how things went down during the removals. Many people did not go on reservation, but fled and mixed in with other races. Due to a persons lack of knowledge of other tribes, and because the Cherokee tribe is seen as one of the "five civilized tribes", a lot of people think or assume they are Cherokee when they are really descendants of someone from a totally different tribe.
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I am apparently fortunate, because as far as I know, I've not been "rejected" or discriminated against for being only 3/32 Cherokee, and in fact, around here in northeast Oklahoma, any tribal affiliation at all can get you somewhat higher up on pending lists or appointments or such, including job interviews.
I've only met a few actual "Indians" that are like the traditional kind, and I have to say they are, as a rule, intimidating and usually of very strong opinions and beliefs, and while as I said, I never got any real sense of discrimination or being judged inferior, I definitely FELT that way around them, even if they were of a different tribe, such as Comanche or Apache - watered down or "half-breeds" I'm sure are looked on with disappointment. But I have to say they were always friendly, in their own way, so either I am very unobservant (which I know to be true on a number of occasions), or they never really had any problems with me.
One thing that is sort of an embarrassing, politically-incorrect but accurate joke and observation is that there are a few areas around here where you can find the stereotypical "drunk Indian", whole bars filled with mean, heavily intoxicated Native Americans, some even drug dealing and using, the kind where I've been cautioned that if I got lost, NOT to even stop in the parking lot at some particular bars. They're certainly not the rule but they are an undeniable fact and example of where some stereotypes come from.
I've never been to a reservation and I might like to go to a Pow-Wow or stomp dance or whatever, I don't really *identify* well with the Indian culture, as I just didn't grow up in it or even really exposed to it - I have no innate kinship or love of nature or animals or such; in fact, I'm not fond of being outside much at all, and except for the normal domesticated animals (I have a large orange cat), I'm indifferent to fauna such as deer and such, as we have mostly raccoons, skunks, armadillos and opossums around here.
I also find it odd, though I guess it is because as noted, I'm not really around a lot of traditional Indians, most around here are Christian, even while observing some Indian rituals and concepts and customs - many have their own particular Indian Christian churches, which has always puzzled me, as I find myself liking the idea of the Mother Earth, Father Sky, etc. And living your entire life by your beliefs, rather than having "a religion" and church and such you attend as a special event which basically officially affirms your beliefs.
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Post Date: 25th Dec, 2010 - 12:17am / Post ID: #
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Cherokee Politics Business Civil & History
Apple adds Cherokee language to iPods
Nine-year-old Lauren Hummingbird wants a cell phone for Christmas - and not just any old phone, but an iPhone. Such a request normally would be met with skepticism by her father, Cherokee Nation employee Jamie Hummingbird. Ref. Source 1
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