Cherokee Team

Profile managers: Kathie Forbes [send private message] and Native Americans Project WikiTree [send private message]

Associated with the Native Americans Project

Welcome to the Cherokee Team

This team is for those members of the Native Americans Project who are researching and working on profiles of Cherokee individuals or who have an historic interest in the Cherokee Nation. The scope of the team is pre-contact to present day.

Team Links

• Native Americans Space Page
• Cherokee Space Page
• Cherokee Sources/Resources
• [[[Space:Finding_a_Cherokee_Ancestor|Finding a Cherokee Ancestor]]]
• [[[Space:Cherokee_Genealogy_before_1800|Cherokee Genealogy before 1800]]]
• [[[Space:Dawes_Rolls|Dawes Rolls]]]
• Cherokee Clans Template -- Please don't use the clan template unless 1. you know the individual's clan for certain, or 2. you understand how the matrilineal clan system works. It is a complex system and wrongly identifying a single individual's clan can potentially mess up a lot profiles.
• Native American Photo Page
• Trail of Tears Space Page

Participants

Team leader: Kathie Parks Forbes

If you're interested in participating in this project, please do the following

1.Add the line [[Category:Cherokee Tribe Project]] to the text area of your profile page. This will add you to the list of participants on the Category Page .

2.Add Cherokee_Tribe to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all our discussions in your G2G Feed.

4.Add your name to the list below, along with a note about what you're working on in this project right now.

• Duane Poncy - I am an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma) and my goal is to document my ancestors, as well as related lines. As someone who has studied Cherokee history and culture, I am keen about the veracity of sources and clearing up misconceptions about the Cherokees and native Americans in general.

• Terry Wright -

• Brian Wagnon- citizen of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma and working on ancestry in Oklahoma.

• Darlene Cypser -- Adding profiles of relatives of Susan (Willis) Russell from sources found in research on her husband William Greeneberry Russell and Cherokees who went prospecting with him at the start of the Colorado Gold Rush; Also researching and adding my own Cherokee relatives.

• Adrian Varney matching my husband to his Cherokee ancestors

• Kimberly Spaulding - following my Cherokee ancestors through my Great Grandfather WJ Pryor.

• Kenneth Shelton -- How do you know where you're going if you don't know where you have been? Just trying to put it all together. Trying to find my Cherokee ancestors.

• Jim Monday - Looking to flesh out Cherokee heritage. Specifically looking for lineage of Nancy Adair that married Chalres Reese and then Alexander Mcpherson. Need to find her parents....

• David Selman - Researching our families Cherokee ancestors connection.

• Cindy Cloyd – Researching Cherokee ancestry and Family of Wahunsenacawh (Powhatan)

• Kathryn Parks – researching Cherokee ancestry and working on Myths & Legends; I am a citizen if Cherokee Nation, descendant of Nancy Ward and Ludovic Grant. I have been working with Cherokee genealogy for over thirty years and am most concerned with accuracy and documentation.

• Steve VanHorn -- I'm a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation and have a keen interest in learning and passing on the true stories of my Cherokee ancestor's lives to my children and grandchildren.

• LaMyra Morton I work on Cordery/Rogers and under-represented families. Basically anywhere I see a need or can fill a gap.

• Matt McBrien

Team Goals

Any improvements you can make to the profiles of Cherokee people are welcome, but here are some specific goals we're working towards:

• For each person:
  • All duplicates merged into the final lowest profile ID number. (Remember: in the era before Cherokee adopted surnames, we use the "Last Name at Birth" field to record their tribe or nation-- i.e., Cherokee.)
  • Sticker (or template if project protected) included on the page
  • All relevant categories are added
  • At least one documented source (Cherokee roll or census, historical document) is listed
  • Parents are correct and documented
  • Biography is cleaned up, free of any GEDCOM junk, Ancestry trees, etc., and ideally has an actual written biography.
  • If person is on the Dawes Roll that information is included as:

Dawes Enrollee

Cherokee (category, e.g. By Blood, Freedman, etc.)

Dawes Card Number (number)

Project Sticker

The Native Americans Sticker should be used for profiles of members of the Cherokee tribe who do not require Native American Project Protection. The sticker should be entered below the == Biography== line.

Sample usage:

{{Native American Sticker |tribe=Cherokee}}

Result:

... was Cherokee.

Categories

[[Category:Cherokee]]

Federally Recognized Cherokee Tribes / Nations

[[Category:The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma]]

[[Category:Cherokee Eastern Band]]

[[Category:The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma]]

State Recognized Tribes

State-recognized "Cherokee" tribes are Native American Heritage Groups that do not meet the criteria for federally recognized Indian tribes but have been recognized by a process established under assorted state government laws for varying purposes. They have no connection with, and are not recognized as Cherokee by any of the three Federally-recognized Cherokee tribes.

[[Category:Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama]]

[[Category:Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee]]

Seven Clans

[[Category:Cherokee Blue Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Long Hair Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Bird Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Paint Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Deer Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Wild Potato Clan]]

[[Category:Cherokee Wolf Clan]]

Other

[[Category:American people of Cherokee descent]]

Sub-Projects

• Rogers Family Project

WikiTree Resources

Remember a lot of questions can be answered by referring to the help pages link at the top right of pages.

• Space page: Cherokee

• Styles and Standards Help with Styles and Standards

• Project Protecting and merging Help on PPP and Merging

• Help with Gedcoms Gedcom Help and answers

• Formatting Help with formatting on a profile

Finding Your Cherokee Ancestors

Click here for more information on searching for Cherokee ancestors.

• See also:
• Cherokee Nation Web site

• United Keetoowah Band web site

• Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians web site

• Cherokee Language resources

• National Archives Cherokee Applications & Determinations with Blood Quantums listed_Actual Original Documents

• Final Rolls Citizens and Freedmen of the 5 Civilized Tribes in Indian Country

• 1924 Baker Roll

• Access Genealogy Cherokee Tribe

• US Indian Census 1885-1940

• Oklahoma State: Cherokee Tribe

• Indian Removal

• Fold3 Cherokee $

• Dawes Resources Information concerning the Dawes Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes may be found on the following WikiTree pages:
  • Dawes Final Rolls page on WikiTree
  • Dawes Act page on WikiTree
  • Dawes Census Card page on WikiTree