Cherokee Quotes

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot. (Kathie Lee Gifford)
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. View quote
Lynn Collins
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. View quote
Martin Van Buren
The Trail of Tears was where the Cherokee Indians were driven out of the Chattanooga area all the way to Oklahoma. ... Evolution is responsible for what happened to the Indians. How any Indian can believe in evolution just blows my mind. ... [The] evolution theory is what destroyed them. View quote
Kent Hovind
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. View quote
Loretta Lynn
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. View quote
Cynthia Ozick
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. View quote
Rashida Jones
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. View quote
Wilma Mankiller
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. View quote
Wilma Mankiller
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group. View quote
Wes Studi
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders. (Alessandra Ambrosio)
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called 'standing people....' View quote
Wallace Stevens
The Sizemores are the laughing stock of wannabee genealogy. They claim Cherokee descent, but their paper trail shows them to be white. View quote
Lisa Alther
In October, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a DNA test that showed she is as little as 1/1,024 Native American in an attempt to prove that she has Native American ancestry. Now, she is apologizing to the Cherokee Nation for having done so. View quote
Elizabeth Warren
Cherokee! I already have a watch! View quote
Dan Patrick
About 1790 the Cherokee decided to adopt the ways of their White conquerors and... established churches, mills, schools, and well cultivated farms... they adopted a written constitution providing for an executive, a bicameral legislature, a supreme court, and a code of laws. View quote
Peter Farb