#cherokees

[meret118]

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

The US Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.”

[ausetkmt]

If the Black Seminoles were Indians, why did they speak African Creole & had African names?

[7whistlepig7]

You don't want to mess with this dude

Dragging Canoe ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, Tsiyu Gansini (1738-1792) a Chickamauga Cherokee war chief, was the last Chickamauga (tsikamaka) chief to preside over the state of Kentucky. Though some Chickamaugas remain in Kentucky to this day, most went to southern Tennessee. He survived smallpox as a child and numerous wars only to die of a heart attack.

[pinkcultgirl]

Cherokee Miku from my home state of North Carolina!

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[ival-eon]

fuck it cherokee miku

i wanna see more indigenous mikus make it happen 🫵

[cherokeedassx]

Thank you for the 10k followers 😘

[edgarmoser]

everett lee jackson "cherokee"

[nana-hunt]

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/VannMarilyn/status/1691512979341168640?t=vMDjDyTLTxoXZIHtVjtqCg&s=09

[ausetkmt]

[bucephaly]

Theres moreeee, this is so so good.. it makes me emotional realizing that these kids are on the path to being fluent cherokee speakers and will be able to keep the language going.

This family is a part of the little cherokee seeds program, creating new first language Cherokee speakers by paying mothers to just bring their babies and craft and cook and speak cherokee with cherokee elders all day. There are only 1500 first language Cherokee speakers, most of them over 65. They also take donations if you want to help keep them going and doing the extremely important work they do!!

[tvstvnvkke]

Tribal Names

I don’t think many people, even some native people, are aware that the legal names of many tribes are actually not from the tribe.

Often the names came about because colonizers would ask one tribe "hey, what do you call those people over there?". then they would assign the name given to that tribe. so often the names were descriptions from unrelated tribes, or in more extreme cases, insults.

The Muscogee tribe got pretty lucky since the legal name was "creek" and it came from a different tribe going "oh, those are the people near the creek". which, is accurate enough, most creek settlements were placed along creeks. a famous one that is related to the Muscogee is the name "Cherokee". "Cherokee" is a Muscogee word meaning something along the lines of "people who don’t speak our language". Even this is pretty light compared to some names. some official tribal names translate to phrases like "dog eaters" or "lazy people".

This is why it’s not uncommon for tribes to start using older names. Muscogee comes from the term for our people "Mvskoke", and the tribe has made efforts to distance itself from the name "Creek". Although it is likely still the name you’ll hear most often.

[georgiapioneers]

#findemigrantancestors #georgiapioneers #cherokees

[cherokeedassx]

Built to last 😜