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History of the Cherokee

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Five Civilized Tribes
group of Native Americans in the southeastern US (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), Seminole) regarded by white people as ‘civilized’ due to adoption of attributes of Anglo-American culture
James Mooney
American ethnographer (1861–1921)
Yamasee War
1715–1717 conflict between British colonists and Native Americans in South Carolina