Cherokee

[cher-uh-kee, cher-uh-kee]

noun

plural

Cherokees ,

plural

Cherokee .

1. a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.

2. the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, written since 1822 in a syllabic script invented for the language by Sequoya.

Cherokee

/ ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː, ˈtʃɛrəˌkiː /

noun

1. a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family

Example Sentences

Before the European settlers arrived and killed off most of the indigenous people, Greenbrier County was part of the Can-tuc-kee territory, where the Shawnee and Cherokee peoples lived.

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Will Rogers, an Oklahoman known as the Cherokee Kid, was the country’s first multimedia superstar.

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It will expand production of the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Compass, and reintroduce an entry-level version of its Ram 1500 pickup.

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Soon after, colleague Jay Caviness hooked a Jeep Grand Cherokee in a nearby town.

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“There’s been a degree of retreat from investing in rural Oklahoma,” said Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, which purchased a building for Provalus to lease.

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