Cherokee
noun
Cher·o·kee
ˈcher-ə-(ˌ)kē 
ˈche-rə-
1
plural Cherokee or Cherokees
: a member of a nation of once-nomadic Indigenous peoples located originally in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina
2
: the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee people
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It’s known as the cold moon to the Cherokee people, the hard moon to the Lakota and the whirling wind moon to the Passamaquoddy tribe.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
Officers with the Mobile Police Department (MPD) responded to the scene near Cherokee Street and Rickarby Street shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to FOX affiliate WALA-TV and NBC affiliate WPMI-TV.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Hours later, just before 1:50 a.m., a dark Jeep Grand Cherokee being driven by Bush dropped off Freeman, who was wearing a mask and dressed in all black, officials said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2025
Born in 1879 as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in territory that later became Oklahoma, Rogers traveled the world before purchasing land in the Palisades in the 1920s.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
Officers with the Mobile Police Department (MPD) responded to the scene near Cherokee Street and Rickarby Street shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to FOX affiliate WALA-TV and NBC affiliate WPMI-TV.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Hours later, just before 1:50 a.m., a dark Jeep Grand Cherokee being driven by Bush dropped off Freeman, who was wearing a mask and dressed in all black, officials said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2025
Born in 1879 as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in territory that later became Oklahoma, Rogers traveled the world before purchasing land in the Palisades in the 1920s.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Cherokee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cherokee. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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Cherokee
noun
Cher·o·kee
ˈcher-ə-ˌkē
: a member of an Indigenous people originally from Tennessee and North Carolina
also
: their language
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