Cherokee
Cherokee was a Native American nation.
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History
The Cherokee nation settled along the Keowee.
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TODO: Pre-Madisonian history!
Tribes allied with the United States during the Red Stick War.
The nation fragmented over voluntary removal. Those that left migrated into territories purchased from the Osage nation.
Those that remained attempted to establish a constitutional republic, mirroring the design of the United States itself. Under Lumpkin, Georgia established laws excluding Native Americans from rights to contract, own property, and testify in court. Despite a series of legal rulings in their favor (Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia, etc.), Jackson allowed the Georgian state government to continue.
Van Buren charged Scott with the forced removal of the nation to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears.
TODO: Post-removal history!
Composition
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