The Cherokee Nation of Mexico, also known as the Cherokee Nation of Sequoyah of Mexico, Texas, and U.S.A. Reservation and Church is an organization of individuals who claim descent from
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, th ...
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
who migrated to
Mexico
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during the 19th century. They are an
unrecognized tribe
Unrecognized tribes in the United States are organizations of people who claim to be historically, culturally, and/or genetically related to historic Native American Indian tribes but who are not officially recognized as Indigenous nations by the ...
with a presence in
Zaragoza
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,
Coahuila
Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...
, Mexico. According to
Robert J. Conley, the Cherokee Nation of Mexico is recognized by the state of Coahuilla.
Their chief is Charles L. Rogers. Charles L. Rogers, the Ancient Cherokee Church of Mexico, the Cherokee Nation of Mexico, and the Native American Church sued American Express Bank and others in
Texas Western District Court in 2013.
The Cherokee Nation of Mexico Texas and Coahuila Reservation and Church was headquartered in
Brownsville, Texas
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, United States. Today they are an IRS 170(b)(1)(A)(i) organization, listed as a "Religion-Related, Spiritual Development" and
Christian
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church, with
Unconditional Tax Exemption, located in
Dripping Springs, Texas
Dripping Springs is a city in Hays County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,650 at the 2020 census. Dripping Springs is a primarily rural town.
Geography
Dripping Springs is in northern Hays County at (30.191998, –98.085382). It ...
.
"Cherokee Nation of Sequoyah in mex tx & us reservation & church."
''501c3 Lookup.'' Retrieved 26 Aug 2013.
See also
* Cherokees in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an outlier branch of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
The Cherokee Nation ( Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ''Tsalagihi Ayeli'' or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ ''Tsalagiyehli''), also known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. ...
* Cherokee cultural citizenship
* Cherokee heritage groups
** Cherokees in Texas
** Northern Cherokee of the Great Plains
The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, a ...
(the historic Louisiana Territory)
Notes
References
* Conley, Robert
''A Cherokee Encyclopedia.''
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. {{ISBN, 978-082633951-5.
External links
Cherokee Nation of Mexico
official website
Cherokee heritage groups
Non-profit organizations based in Texas
Hays County, Texas
Protestantism in Texas
Unrecognized tribes in the United States