Cherokee National History Museum
FreeAdmission Tuesday – Saturday10 AM – 4 PM Holiday HoursDecember 31, 2024Open – 2 PM Holiday ClosuresJanuary 1, 2025 Cherokee National History Museum Take a deep dive into the Cherokee past and present. Restored and opened in 2019, the Cherokee National History Museum resides in the original Cherokee National Capitol building in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. With […]
Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell Cultural & Welcome Center
FreeAdmission Open Daily9 AM – 5 PM Holiday HoursDecember 31, 2024Open – 2 PM Holiday ClosuresJanuary 1, 2025 Cherokee Nation ANNA MITCHELL CULTURAL & WELCOME CENTER Located off of Route 66 and I-44, the Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell Cultural and Welcome Center offers an exciting opportunity for travelers to learn about Cherokee history, art, and […]
Cherokee Hunting
Author: Keli Gonzales ᎦᏃᎭᎵᏙ (ga-no-ha-li-do) is the Cherokee word for “hunting.” Skills and traditions pertaining to hunting influence other portions of daily life for many native peoples. Hunting is still a prominent aspect of Cherokee identity. Cherokees hunted to feed themselves and their communities using various weapons, but, like many things, hunting practices changed after […]
Cabin in the Woods
Author: Krystan Moser One of the most notable figures in Cherokee history is Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah, or George Guess, was born around 1770 in what is now the state of Tennessee. Sequoyah spent more than a decade studying the structure of the Cherokee language, and in 1821 he unveiled a […]
The Cost of Free Land
Author: Krystan Moser On September 16, 1893, a shot rang out and more than 100,000 settlers raced to stake a claim on one of 42,000 homesteads in the Cherokee Outlet. The largest of the Oklahoma land runs, the 1893 run opened more land than any other individual run. The land run that resulted created about […]
Order in the Courts
Author: Krystan Moster Prior to the Trail of Tears and removal to Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation existed in our eastern homelands of what are now North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. The Cherokees operated schools, courts, a bilingual newspaper, and had a written constitution that laid out the foundations of a government and the laws […]
Through the Lens
Author: Karen Shade Photographer Jennie Fields Ross Cobb occupies a special place in Cherokee Nation’s history. Between about 1896 to 1906, she took her small box camera and photographed the people and places she knew. The result is a small collection of images offering a glimpse of life in Indian Territory before Oklahoma statehood in […]
Cherokee Syllabary Typeset
In celebration of the Cherokee Syllabary Bicentennial, the Cherokee Nation Language Department helped create a unique typeset to print copies of the Sequoyah Day proclamation. Learn more about the creation of this historic typeset here: bit.ly/SyllabaryTypeset For your own digital copy of a print created from this typeset and its translation in English, click here to download.
Cherokee Coloring Pages
In celebration of the Cherokee Syllabary Bicentennial, we have some Cherokee language-themed coloring pages for you to download and color. Featuring the Cherokee words for “Cat,” “Rabbit,” and “Strawberry.” Click here to download coloring pages.
Finding Sequoyah
Author: Karen Shade-Lanier Sequoyah was about 80 years old when he left his family and home in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1842. Whether or not he knew it would be for the last time is next to impossible for us to know. The inventor of the written form of the Cherokee language left nothing […]
