Tom Wing - Drennon Scott House - Van Buren, AR
Speaker Bio: Tom Wing - director of the UAFS Drennen-Scott House in Van Buren, Ar. Tom Wing is currently employed by the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith and serves as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Drennen-Scott Historic Site. He holds bachelor degrees in anthropology and secondary education from the University of Arkansas, a masters in history from the University of Oklahoma, and is currently a Ph D. student at Steven F. Austin State University in Texas. Wing spent 10 years as a high school history teacher before becoming an interpretive park ranger and historian for the National Park Service. He currently serves on the board of the Western Arkansas Mountain Frontier Tourism Association and has served two terms as trustee of the AR Historical Society.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . They speak an Iroquoian language. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were. They began to have contact with European traders in the 18th century. American colonist, Henry Timberlake, described the Cherokee nation as he saw it in 1761:
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Cherokee
00:02:30 1 Name
00:03:31 2 Origins
00:06:01 3 Early cultures
00:10:56 4 History
00:11:04 4.1 17th century: English contact
00:12:40 4.2 18th century
00:19:26 4.2.1 Scots (and other Europeans) among the Cherokee in the 18th century
00:21:07 4.3 19th century
00:21:15 4.3.1 Acculturation
00:26:30 4.3.2 Removal era
00:29:02 4.3.2.1 Trail of Tears
00:35:12 4.3.2.2 Eastern Band
00:36:28 4.3.3 Civil War
00:38:10 4.3.4 Reconstruction and late 19th century
00:41:17 5 Culture
00:41:26 5.1 Cultural institutions
00:43:16 5.2 Marriage
00:45:42 5.3 Ethnobotany
00:45:53 6 Language and writing system
00:47:55 7 Treaties and government
00:48:04 7.1 Treaties
00:48:19 7.2 Government
00:49:45 8 Modern Cherokee tribes
00:49:55 8.1 Cherokee Nation
00:52:29 8.2 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
00:53:39 8.3 United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians
00:54:33 8.4 Relations among the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes
00:55:49 9 Contemporary settlement
00:56:43 10 Membership controversies
00:56:53 10.1 Tribal recognition and membership
01:01:46 10.2 Cherokee Freedmen
01:04:04 11 Notable historical (and current) Cherokee
01:09:41 12 See also
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The Cherokee (; Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, translit. Aniyvwiyaʔi or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, translit. Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and the tips of western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia.The Cherokee language is part of the Iroquoian language group. In the 19th century, James Mooney, an American ethnographer, recorded one oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples lived; however, anthropologist Thomas R. Whyte writes that the origin of the proto-Iroquoian language was likely the Appalachian region and the split between Northern and Southern Iroquoian languages began 4,000 years ago.Today there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation (CN) in Oklahoma.By the 19th century, European settlers in the United States classified the Cherokee of the Southeast as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, because they were agrarian and lived in permanent villages and began to adopt some cultural and technological practices of the European American settlers. The Cherokee were one of the first, if not the first, major non-European ethnic group to become U.S. citizens. Article 8 in the 1817 treaty with the Cherokee stated that Cherokees may wish to become citizens of the United States.The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 tribal members, making it the largest of the 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States. In addition, numerous groups claim Cherokee lineage, and some of these are state-recognized. A total of more that 819,000 people claim having Cherokee ancestry on the US census, which includes persons who are not enrolled members of any tribe.Of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee Nation and the UKB have headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The UKB are mostly descendants of Old Settlers, Cherokee who migrated to Arkansas and Oklahoma about 1817 prior to Indian Removal. They are related to the Cherokee who were later forcibly relocated there in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is on the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina; their ancestors resisted or avoided relocation, remaining in the area.