Ned Christie
• Cherokee Senator • Blacksmith • Farmer • Marble Champion • Patriot
Samuel Worcester
• missionary • printer • farmer • postmaster • central political figure
Zeke Proctor
• Sheriff • Cherokee Senator • Farmer • Trail of Tears survivor
Redbird Smith
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.
Henry Starr
Some info on Henry Starr from the Indian-Pioneer Papers.
James Taylor
A Brief Biography of James Taylor, who removed to Indian Territory after the Trail of Tears.
Sequoyah
Read this biography on Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee syllabary.
Goingsnake
Sequoyah - according to an acquaintance
The Cherokee Phoenix printed this account of Sequoyah, at the time of the introduction to the Cherokee Syllabary.
Archibald Scraper
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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