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Nanye'hi, known to European settlers as Nancy Ward, was a 16th-century Cherokee woman known for her indomitable spirit and her good will toward the colonists. Nanye'hi, from the Cherokee town of Chota, was present at the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785.
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Driven off their lands in 1838, a group of Cherokees hid out in Graham County. Known today as the Snowbird Indians, many, like Maggie Axe Wachaha, have maintained their identify while surrounded by a changing world.
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To raise money, the Cherokees are opening a gambling casino in Jackson County in 1996. It is expected to generate a profit of over $70 million a year. While some see a brighter future, others predict loss of traditional ways and a possible rise in crime.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Mar 1996,
p20-23,25-26,29-30, il
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3532
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In November, 1997, the Cherokee Indians will open a gambling casino in Cherokee, the county seat of Swain County. It will employ over 1,100 people with an annual payroll of $29 million. Revenues will fund tribal programs and help the region's economy.
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In 1995, Jean Dugan was elected principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokees. She is the first woman to hold the position. Dugan restructured the tribal government and established stringent financial controls. Her predecessor was impeached on charges of misusing funds. In the fall 1999 election, she was upset in her bid for reelection.
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At one time the Cherokees occupied territory covering 40,000 square miles, but after their first contact with the Europeans in the 1500s, life became a struggle to keep the white man from taking their land. Treaties were made and broken, and wars were fought until 1794. Finally in 1838-39, the United States forcibly removed the Cherokees to the Oklahoma Territory. Around a thousand escaped to the North Carolina mountains, and their descendants live on the 56,000- acre Qualla Boundary, a fraction of their once vast territory.
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, located in western Carolina, established a tribal historic preservation office in December 1999. They are the twenty-first federally recognized tribe to do so. James Bird of the Eastern Band was appointed tribal historic preservation officer.
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5570
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Walter Calhoun was awarded a 1990 N.C. Folk Heritage Award for preserving and teaching the ancient ceremonial arts and customs of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997,
p21-22
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9.Eva Wolfe - Basket Maker by Sharpe, Bill North Carolina Folklore Journal Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997
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5571
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Eva Wolfe is one of only ten people who practice the rare art of weaving traditional Cherokee rivercane baskets. She is also known for her doubleweave baskets, one of the most difficult weaving styles. In 1989, she received an N.C. Folk heritage Award.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997,
p17-18
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7161
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Snowbird Cherokees in western North Carolina chose a trail planted with trees and medicinal herbs to honor the memory of tribal leaders, like Junaluska, who have passed down age-old traditions. The Medicine Trail is located outside Robbinsville. The nearly forty-five plants along the trail were selected for their role in the community's medicine traditions. Plants include Joe Pye weed, sourwood, yellowroot, and goldenseal.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 4, Apr 2005,
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Snowbird Cherokees in western North Carolina chose a trail planted with trees and medicinal herbs to honor the memory of tribal leaders, like Junaluska, who have passed down age-old traditions. The Medicine Trail, which was completed in 2002, is located outside Robbinsville. The nearly seventy-five varieties of plants along the trail were selected for their role in the community's medicine traditions. Most of the plants along the trail are identified and their curative powers described. Plants include Joe Pye weed, sourwood, yellowroot, and goldenseal.
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Jerry Wolfe, an elder in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has spent many years storytelling and promoting Cherokee culture. His stories are drawn from his own experiences, including World War II and the Job Corps program, and from Cherokee animal tales. He is well-known as an expert on Indian stickball and as a carver of special sticks used in the game. He received the North Carolina Arts Council Heritage Award in 2003.
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James Mooney of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology visited the Qualla Reservation of the Cherokees in 1877, gathered plants which the Indians used for food and medicine and did research on Cherokee myths. Most of what Money collected was donated to him by the Cherokee's leading shaman, an Indian named “Swimmer.†Swimmer also served in the Civil War, as a second sergeant of the Cherokee Company A, Sixty-Ninth North Carolina Confederate Infantry, Thomas Legion. With encouragement from Mooney, Swimmer compiled his knowledge of Cherokee culture and traditions into a 240-page book known as the Swimmer Manuscript, containing prayers, songs, and prescriptions to cure diseases.
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Born in 1805, William H. Thomas was a key figure in preserving lands for the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. The main locus of the tribe was called the Qualla. Thomas worked for the state senate from 1848 until 1861, when he resigned to work for the Confederacy. In 1862, Colonel Thomas recruited over 2,800 men, 400 of them Cherokee, to be a part of his Thomas Legion, which he commanded throughout the war. Due to their skill in the woods, the Cherokees were especially good at tracking down Yankees, who were trying to hide. After the war ended, several Cherokee soldiers were captured by the Union and contracted smallpox. In the spring of 1866, after some of the captives returned home, the disease spread through the Cherokee community. Despite the efforts of a doctor Colonel Thomas brought in to treat the Indians, more than one hundred Indians died.
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Ramona Lossie is a sixth-generation Cherokee basket weaver, and her daughters are seventh-generation weavers. She learned the art of weaving from her mother and grandmother. Creating a basket can take as long as four months; this includes collecting the material and preparing it. Her baskets sell for up to $2,000, depending on the size and complexity, and increase in value through the years.
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