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census most are not enrolled members of any tribe. A total of more than 819,000 people are estimated to have identified as having Cherokee ancestry on the U.S. In addition, numerous groups claim Cherokee lineage, and some of these are state-recognized. The Cherokee Nation has more than 300,000 tribal members, making it the largest of the 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Today, three Cherokee tribes are federally recognized: the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (UKB) in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation (CN) in Oklahoma, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) in North Carolina. They also developed their own writing system. They were agrarian, lived in permanent villages, and had begun to adopt some cultural and technological practices of the white settlers. īy the 19th century, White American settlers had classified the Cherokee of the Southeast as one of the " Five Civilized Tribes" in the region. He believes that the origin of the proto-Iroquoian language was likely the Appalachian region, and the split between Northern and Southern Iroquoian languages began 4,000 years ago. Whyte, writing in 2007, dated the split among the peoples as occurring earlier. In the 19th century, James Mooney, an early American ethnographer, recorded one oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian peoples have been based. The Cherokee language is part of the Iroquoian language group. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, edges of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama. The Cherokee ( / ˈ tʃ ɛr ə k iː, ˌ tʃ ɛr ə ˈ k iː/ Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, romanized: Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, romanized: Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics. This article contains Cherokee syllabic characters.