1st AMERICAN CHEROKEE (book)
"1st American" is a series of children's books that will help to preserve Native American languages. The introductory book of that series being "1st American Cherokee". This is a project of the CBIHP Foundation. American rescue plan funding was provided in part by Oklahoma Humanities(OH) and the National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH).
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OKLAHOMA BLACK CHEROKEES (BOOK)
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Over the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once determined their citizenship. The 1851 census revealed a total population nearing 18,000, which included 1,844 slaves and 64 free black. What it means to be Cherokee has continued to evolve over the past century, yet the histories assembled here by Ty Wilson, Karen Coody Cooper and other contributing authors reveal a collection of meaningful many meaningful stories of identity and survival in this book.
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