= Cherokee = '''Cherokee''' was a [[UnitedStates/NativeAmericanNations|Native American nation]]. <> ---- == History == The Cherokee nation settled along the Keowee. TODO: map! TODO: Pre-Madisonian history! Tribes allied with the [[UnitedStates/JamesMadison|United States]] during the [[UnitedStates/RedEagle|Red Stick War]]. The nation fragmented over voluntary removal. Those that left migrated into territories purchased from the [[UnitedStates/Osage|Osage nation]]. Those that remained attempted to establish a constitutional republic, mirroring the design of the United States itself. Under [[UnitedStates/WilsonLumpkin|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.), [[UnitedStates/AndrewJackson|Jackson]] allowed the Georgian state government to continue. [[UnitedStates/MartinVanBuren|Van Buren]] charged [[UnitedStates/WinfieldScott|Scott]] with the forced removal of the nation to Oklahoma in the '''Trail of Tears'''. TODO: Post-removal history! ---- == Composition == ---- CategoryRicottone CategoryState CategoryTodoLearnGis CategoryTodoLearnHistory