ystem, the Cherokee were included as one of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes with the other four tribes being the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and the Seminoles. As one of the Five Civilized Tribes in the 1800's, the Cherokee Nation was probably the strongest Indian tribe in the United States with its size and power. More than 100,000 Cherokee Indians live in parts of Oklahoma now. When the white settlers arrived, the Cherokee Nation began to adopt their economic and political stucture. They started owning large plantations and some even kept slaves. The famous Cherokee Indian Sequoya introduced a system of writing for the Cherokee language in 1821 (Newsome).
             White settlers began to protest the Cherokee's and other tribes' rights to own land in the early 1800 because they wanted the indians' land. Some members of the Cherokee Nation signed treaties with the government in 1835 agreeing to move to designated areas in Oklahoma but most of the tribe preferred to not be relocated. About five hundred leading Cherokee memb
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