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The Cherokee (/ˈtʃɛrəkiː/; Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ Tsalagi) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia North Carolina South Carolina and East Tennessee). 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 where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were.
