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Tag: Cherokees

Illustration: Sequoyah with a writing tablet depicting his writing system for the Cherokee language. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Learning about Native American Newspapers: The ‘Cherokee Advocate’

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on October 22, 2021

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about an important newspaper in Native American – and U.S. – history: the “Cherokee Advocate.”.. (Read More)

Photo: Confederate Cherokees’ reunion in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1903. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Last Rebel Army Surrenders: General Stand Watie and the Cherokees

By Tony Pettinato on June 23, 2020

The last Confederate army to surrender in the Civil War was not one of Southern whites: it was the Cherokee army of Brigadier General/Chief Stand Watie... (Read More)

Illustration: Sequoyah with a tablet depicting his writing system for the Cherokee language; 19th-century print of a painting

Cherokee Phoenix, the First Native American Newspaper

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on November 29, 2017

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak writes about the “Cherokee Phoenix” – the first Native American newspaper published in the U.S. .. (Read More)

Photo: Confederate Cherokees’ reunion in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1903. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Confederate Cherokees Starving as Civil War Ends

By Tony Pettinato on June 2, 2016

An article about Confederate Brigadier General and Cherokee Chief Stand Watie pleading for Texans to help feed his warriors after the Civil War ended... (Read More)


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