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Ned Christie
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• Cherokee Senator • blacksmith • farmer • marble champion • patriot
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Samuel Worcester
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• missionary • printer • farmer • postmaster • central political figure
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Zeke Proctor
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• Sheriff • Cherokee Senator • Farmer • Trail of Tears survivor
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Redbird Smith
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Redbird Smith believed the greatest danger to the survival of
the Cherokee as a culture was ‘acculturation.’ He feared the people
would be absorbed into the ways of the white people around them and
forget their own ways.
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Henry Starr
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Some info on Henry Starr from the Indian-Pioneer Papers.
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James Taylor
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A Brief Biography of James Taylor, who removed to Indian Territory after the Trail of Tears.
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Sequoyah
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Read this biography on Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee syllabary.
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Goingsnake
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Sequoyah - according to an acquaintance
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The Cherokee Phoenix printed this account of Sequoyah, at the time of the introduction to the Cherokee Syllabary.
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Archibald Scraper
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Arch Scraper was born about 1820-25 in Cherokee Nation East1 beside the Chattooga River near where it joined the Coosa River, in what is now Alabama, about a mile west of the Georgia border.
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