<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Cherokee syllabic characters . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Cherokee syllabic characters . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics . </Td> </Tr> <P> The Cherokee (/ ˈtʃɛrəkiː /; Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, translit . Aniyvwiyaʔi or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, translit . Tsalagi) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands . Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and the tips of western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia . The Cherokee language is a Southern Iroquoian language and part of the Iroquoian language family . Today there are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma . </P> <P> By the 19th century, European settlers in the United States classified the Cherokee of the Southeast as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes," because they were agrarian and lived in permanent villages and began to adopt some cultural and technological practices of the European American settlers . The Cherokee were one of the first, if not the first, major non-European ethnic group to become U.S. citizens . Article 8 in the 1817 treaty with the Cherokee stated Cherokees may wish to become citizens of the United States . </P>

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