Cherokee Teach Tourists in North Carolina

In 1838, the Cherokee were forced to give up their land in the east and migrate to what is now Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died on the journey known as the Trail of Tears, but some Cherokee remained behind, hidden in the mountains of Appalachia. VOA's Susan Logue visits their modern descendants, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

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[stayAU]

You can't be 1/8 of anything that is something the Federal Government came up with to dole the land out. You get 23 chromosomes from your mother and 23 from your father. Its pretty much a lottery of what you end up with. That 1/8 crap was started by the Government.

[13Naru13]

Tawodi Usdi Brown! I agree with him and Myrtle. Tourists, stop going for the fake chiefs and meet the REAL PEOPLE - Ani Yunwiya!- of Cherokee! Learn who they really were and still are. Celebrate with them.

[wmcunn92]

I agree. Meet the real Cherokee folks. They did not live in teepees. They actually lived in longhouses that their cousins also lived in further north (the Iroquois league of sister tribes related by the same mother tongue, thank you). Only the plains Indians did live in teepees in the Dakota plains country.

[inotaishu1]

@Forysan And unlike over here in Europe Americans can't say that Natives are too far away for them to know any better. I mean when the only historical image broadely present over here is that of the Plains people that's understandable but so close to "the real thing" and still being caught up in the stereotype is unexcusable in my eyes. Just for the records, people of South Amerca and arctic america are usually not presented as being the same as "indians" over here.

[inotaishu1]

@Pooternackle5 How do they want to proof that?

[inotaishu1]

@TheLonelyBearCub As far as I know (hard to proof of course due to missing data on the subject) you can even be pure Native and still look like someone from Europe, or East Asia for that matter. So good chance that your skin is not due to some white ancestors.

[inotaishu1]

@XxNaTiVeBaBiiDoLLxX Depents, what makes a person a Cherokee?

[AngelaA81410]

Gotta say I like Myrtle Driver's candor! She reminds me of how my g-grandmother talked. Cherokee Proud always!!

[4Koda]

@stayAU Casinos are one of the very few ways the u.s government allows the reservations to make money. Thats they only reason why so many tribes use casinos.