The Cherokee are Native American people.

There are three, currently existing, federally-recognized Cherokee tribes:

  • The Cherokee Nation, based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
  • The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, based in Cherokee, North Carolina
  • The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, also based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Cherokee can also refer to:

  • Cherokee Nation (1794–1907), the historical government that preceded the current Cherokee Nation
  • Cherokee language, spoken by the Cherokee peoples
  • Cherokee syllabary, a writing system for the Cherokee language, invented by Sequoyah
  • Cherokee (Unicode block), a block of Cherokee characters in Unicode

Places

Australia

  • Cherokee, Victoria, a locality

Bahamas

  • Cherokee Sound, a place

United States

  • Cherokee, Alabama, a town
  • Cherokee, California, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Cherokee, Nevada County, California, a former mining community
  • Cherokee, Iowa, a city
  • Cherokee, Kansas, a city
  • Indian Hills-Cherokee Section, Kentucky, also known as Cherokee, a former city in Kentucky near Louisville
  • Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, a municipal park
  • Cherokee, North Carolina, a census-designated place
  • Cherokee, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Cherokee, Oklahoma, a city
  • Cherokee Turnpike, a toll road in eastern Oklahoma
  • Cherokee, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Cherokee Lake, Tennessee, a reservoir
  • Cherokee, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Cherokee, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Cherokee, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Cherokee Branch, Georgia, a stream
  • Cherokee Run (Ohio), a stream
  • Cherokee County (disambiguation)
  • Cherokee Township (disambiguation)

Businesses

  • Cherokee Inc., an American clothing company
  • Harrah's Cherokee, a casino and hotel in Cherokee, North Carolina
  • Cherokee Casino Roland, a casino complex located in Roland, Oklahoma
  • Cherokee Productions, an independent film production company founded by actor James Garner

Music

  • The Cherokee, an opera by Stephen Storace (1794)
  • Cherokee (band), a later name for the rock band The Robbs
  • "Cherokee" (Ray Noble song), a 1938 jazz standard written by Ray Noble
  • "Cherokee" (Europe song), a 1987 song by Swedish rock band Europe
  • "Cherokee", a song by White Lion from their debut album Fight to Survive
  • "Cherokee", a song by John Moreland from his 2015 album High on Tulsa Heat
  • "Cherokee", a song by Cat Power from her album Sun
  • Cherokee Studios, a recording facility in Hollywood, California

Plants

  • Cherokee (grape), another name for the grape Catawba
  • Rosa laevigata, also known as the Cherokee Rose
  • Cherokee purple, a variety of heirloom tomato

People

  • Cherokee Fisher (1844–1912), American baseball player
  • Cherokee Parks (born 1972), American former basketball player
  • Crawford Goldsby (1876–1896), aka Cherokee Bill, American Old West outlaw

Schools

  • Cherokee Baptist Female College, original name of Shorter University, Rome, Georgia
  • Cherokee High School (disambiguation)
  • Cherokee Middle School, Cherokee, Alabama
  • Cherokee Immersion School, a Cherokee language immersion school in Park Hill, Oklahoma
  • Cherokee Heights Middle School, in Madison Metropolitan School District

Ships

  • , several Royal Navy ships
  • Cherokee class brig-sloop, a class of British Royal Navy vessels in the early 19th century
  • , ships of the United States Navy
  • Cherokee-class tugboat, a United States Navy class
  • List of ships named Cherokee

Sports

  • Toledo Cherokee, a junior ice hockey team in the United States Premier Hockey League, based in Toledo, Ohio
  • Dodge Cherokee, an Argentine racing car
  • Torino Cherokee, an Argentine racing car

Transportation

  • Jeep Cherokee, sport utility vehicle models
  • Piper Cherokee, a family of light aircraft
  • Hall Cherokee, a homebuilt glider
  • Cherokee Railroad, a 19th century railroad in Georgia, United States
  • "Cherokee", a named night train of the Rock Island Rail Road, between Chicago and Tucumcari, New Mexico

Other uses

  • Cherokee (rocket), a 1950s American experimental rocket used in testing of ejection seats
  • Cherokee (nuclear test), a 1956 test using the first air drop of a thermonuclear weapon
  • Cherokee (web server), an open-source cross-platform web server
  • Cherokee Building, a historic building in Hollywood, California
  • Cherokee Generating Station, a natural gas-fired power plant in Adams County, Colorado
  • Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an uncompleted project outside Gaffney, South Carolina

See also

  • Cherokee City, Arkansas, an unincorporated census-designated place
  • Cherokee Village, Arkansas, a city
  • Cherokee Village, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Camp Cherokee (disambiguation), all in the United States
  • Cherokee National Forest, in Tennessee and North Carolina
  • Cherokee National Jail, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Cherokee Plantation (disambiguation), two plantations on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Cherokee Ranch, Douglas County, Colorado, a cattle ranch on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Cherokee Falls, Dade County, Georgia, a waterfall
  • Cherokee Group, a geologic group in Missouri and Iowa
  • Cherokee Shale, a geologic formation in Kansas
  • Cherokee Apartments, an apartment complex in New York City
  • 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles, a Confederates States Army unit during the American Civil War
  • Cherokee darter, a species of freshwater fish