Every year on Labor Day weekend over 100,000 visitors travel to the town of Tahlequah, Oklahoma to celebrate a uniquely Cherokee event — Cherokee National Holiday, also referred to as Cherokee Homecoming. The normally small town of just over 16,000 people welcome Cherokee and non-Cherokee from all over the world with festivities to celebrate the
How to Use the All Things Cherokee Query Boards
If you’ve visited the All Things Cherokee Query Boards before, then you know that the old boards were made up of static pages which listed all of the queries posted in a given month and visitors could only contact the original query posters by emailing them. This was a very limiting system for posting queries
Cherokee Genealogy Queries – October 2014
Browse or search the Cherokee genealogy queries posted to All Things Cherokee in October 2014. Find others researching your family tree. To find your surname within the genealogy queries simply use the find feature of your browser. You can do this by choosing “Find in Page” from the Edit menu or by hitting the “Ctrl”
Cherokee Genealogy Queries – September 2014
Browse or search the Cherokee genealogy queries posted to All Things Cherokee in September 2014. Find others researching your family tree. To find your surname within the genealogy queries simply use the find feature of your browser. You can do this by choosing “Find in Page” from the Edit menu or by hitting the “Ctrl”
Cherokee Genealogy Queries – August 2014
Browse or search the Cherokee genealogy queries posted to All Things Cherokee in August 2014. Find others researching your family tree. To find your surname within the genealogy queries simply use the find feature of your browser. You can do this by choosing “Find in Page” from the Edit menu or by hitting the “Ctrl”
I Know I’m Cherokee, But How Do I Prove It?
It is one thing to know you have Cherokee ancestry, but it is quite another to prove Cherokee heritage. Unfortunately there were very few records kept of the Cherokee people prior to their relationship with the United States, and even then the records were hardly complete. As a result, finding proof of Cherokee heritage is
Online Course ‘Native Peoples of Oklahoma’ Offered for Free
The University of Oklahoma is offering a free online course this semester which explores all aspects of life for Native Peoples of Oklahoma. The course is an introduction into the history and cultural traditions, as well as contemporary contributions in film, art, and literature of the Native people of Oklahoma. Additionally, issues relating to law
Rebecca Wiltshire Whitwell
Born in Sallisaw, Ok in 1950. I was highly influenced by my grandmother (who lived to be 93 summers). She tried to teach me some of the old ways. She was Cherokee and Choctaw and very proud of the fact, just as I am. I started piecing quilt tops in 1991. I learned to do
Tonia Hogner Weavel
Tonia Hogner Weavel, Cherokee citizen, has been making Cherokee clothing for the past 20 years. Most of her sewing experience has been tear dresses, ribbon shirts and hunting jackets. In 2003 she created a double caped, embroidered deerskin coat and began to expand her skills to other types of textile mediums. This coat is on
Andrew Rhoades
I have Exhibited at the 2009 Trail of Tears Art Show, and also in the 2009 Language exhibit at the Cherokee Heritage Center. Also, I have been published in the Generations: Cherokee Language Through Art book. My works are available at The Cherokee National Museum and the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum. Notably, I acquired the taste