Did you know:

1. At one time, the Blood Law system was used to punish Cherokees who committed the act of murder. If you murdered a person, the life of any member of your clan was at risk.

2. The first treaty entered into by the Cherokees resulted in the cession of 2600 square miles in the area of what is present-day South Carolina. The treaty was between the Cherokee and England, who recognized Cherokee Nation as a world government before there was a United States. The year was 1721.

3. In 1827, the first Cherokee Constitution was enacted. This was considered a copy of the U.S. Government's format, although the U.S. Government had derived this from the Iroquois Confederacy, who at that time, was the only democracy in the world.

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Sit back a listen to RICHARD BIRDTAIL read a bit of the history of the Cherokee Nation. Listed on the download's page as "Cherokee Nation History".

Info provided by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center please contact cultural@cherokee.org