gryzonie: Cherokee

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

Osage in Kansas describes the historical presence of Osage Native Americans in present-day Kansas on the Central Plains of the United States. The Osage are a Dhegiha Siouan–speaking Plains tribe, who are currently enrolled in the Osage Nation, a federally recognized tribe based in Oklahoma. In the 18th century, the Osage lived mostly in Missouri but claimed lands and also resided in present-day Kansas and Oklahoma. The U.S. government forced them to cede the majority of their homelands and assigned them to an Indian reservation in southern Kansas, where they lived from 1825 to 1872. They suffered many hardships and a declining population due to starvation and disease. Beginning in the 1850s…

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

Evidence: 45 • authority: 72

Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is a Native American reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona. At roughly 17,544,500 acres (71,000 km2; 27,413 sq mi), the Navajo Nation is the largest Native American reservation in the United States, exceeding the size of ten U.S. states. It is one of the few reservations whose lands overlap the nation's traditional homelands. In 2010, the reservation was home to 173,667 out of 332,129 Navajo tribal members; the remaining 158,462 tribal members lived outsi…

Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

Evidence: 32 • authority: 72

Markwayne Mullin (born July 26, 1977) is an American politician and businessman who has served since 2026 as the 9th United States secretary of homeland security. A member of the Republican Party, Mullin served from 2023 to 2026 as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma and from 2013 to 2023 as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's second congressional district. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Mullin assumed control of his family's plumbing business in 1998. After entering the 2012 United States House of Representatives election for Oklahoma's second congressional district in 2011, he defeated Democratic candidate Rob Wallace. He was reelected in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. In Feb…

Evidence: 32 • authority: 92

Evidence: 32 • authority: 72

The Cherokee or Tsalagi (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, romanized: Tsalagi pronounced [dʒalaˈɡî], endonym: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, Aniyvwiyaʔi / Anigiduwagi) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, living in towns along river valleys in what is now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, parts of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama, with hunting grounds extending into Kentucky. Together, these lands encompassed approximately 40,000 square miles. The Cherokee language belongs to the Iroquoian language family. In the 19th centu…

Evidence: 24 • authority: 72

Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later…

Evidence: 24 • authority: 80