Cherokee
Cherokee was a Native American nation.
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History
The Cherokee nation settled along the Keowee.
Cherokee tribes allied with the United States during the Red Stick War.
The nation fragmented on the issue of voluntary removal. Those that left settled into territories purchased from the Osage nation. Nonetheless they faced raids and chronic violence from their new neighbors.
Those that remained attempted to establish a constitutional republic, mirroring the design of the United States itself. Lumpkin passed laws excluding native Americans from rights to contract, 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 government to continue. Van Buren charged Scott with the forced removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears.