Cherokee (disambiguation)

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:

Related to the Cherokee people

• 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

• HMS Cherokee, several Royal Navy ships
• Cherokee class brig-sloop, a class of British Royal Navy vessels in the early 19th century
• USS Cherokee, 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
• All pages with titles beginning with Cherokee