Editing Five Civilized Tribes (section)

===Cherokee===
{{Main|Cherokee|Cherokee Nation}}

The [[Cherokee]], ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|tʃ|ɛ|r|ə|k|iː}}; {{langx|chr|ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ|translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi}}) are people of the Southeastern United States, principally [[Upland South|upland]] Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. They speak an [[Iroquoian language]]. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, the base of most other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mooney|first1=James|title=Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees|date=1900|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|page=393|isbn=978-1-4286-4864-7}}</ref>

Of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the [[Cherokee Nation]] and the [[United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians]] (UKB) have headquarters in [[Tahlequah, Oklahoma]]. The UKB are mostly descendants of "Old Settlers", Cherokee who migrated to Arkansas and Oklahoma about 1817. They are related to the Cherokee who were forcibly relocated there in the 1830s under the Indian Removal Act. The [[Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians]] is on the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina, and are descendants of those who resisted or avoided relocation.<ref name="Anderson2006">{{cite encyclopedia |author1=William L. Anderson |author2=Ruth Y. Wetmore |author3=John L. Bell |entry=Cherokee Indians - Part 5: Trail of Tears and the creation of the Eastern Band of Cherokees |entry-url=https://www.ncpedia.org/cherokee/trailoftears |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of North Carolina |publisher=State Library of North Carolina |access-date=21 January 2019 |date=2006}}</ref> Although the Cherokee Nation sponsors some satellite communities, it does not recognize Cherokee heritage groups that are seeking federal recognition. The Cherokee tribe has 729,533 enrolled members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/nativetrends/tables/table_1_3.asp|title=Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008}}</ref>