- Cherokee
Cherokee (born January 12, 1982) is an American pornographic director, actress and nude model. - Cherokee
Cherokee D'Ass (February 11, 1976, Southern California) is an African-American porn star known and loved for her extremely large and soft buttocks. She has appeared on numerous sites across the internet on various large bottom websites, including Bang Bros. - Cherokee
Cherokee (born April 3, 1970) was an African-American porn actress from roughly the mid-90's. While listed as African-American, she does claim to be part Native American as well thus her show name during her porn career. Though credited with films from 1994-2001, she didn't make her first movie until 1995 and, according to the Video Team website, she has been out of the business since 1997 and hasn't made a new one since. - Lezley Zen
Lezley Zen (born February 19, 1974) is an American stripper turned pornstar hailing from Charleston, South Carolina. She has a tattoo of a black stallion on her upper back. She is 50% Cherokee Indian and 50% Caucasian. - Cheyenne Silver
Cheyenne Silver (born Cara Fawn Ballou on July 18, 1978 in San Clemente, California) is an American pornographic actress. She is of Native American heritage. Silver danced under the stage name Wildcat, a name she also used when she initially transitioned to adult films. She has appeared in over 70 films, including "No Man's Land", "Fever", "Secrets of the Flesh", "Freshmen Fantasies", … - Sam Houston
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born in Virginia, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor. Although a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism, he refused, due to his unionist convictions, … - Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels, also known as Stormy Waters and simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe whose bassist Nikki Sixx named his son Storm. - John Ross
John Ross (October 3, 1790 - August 1, 1866), also known as Kooweskoowe - "the great", Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native American Nation. - Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell Walker on "Walker, Texas Ranger". In 2006, he became the subject of an internet phenomenon known as Chuck Norris Facts. - Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (born November 18, 1945 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma) was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Mankiller grew up with her family at Mankiller Flats. Her father moved the family to San Francisco in 1956 in hopes of a "better life" as promised under the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Indian Relocation Program. - Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born November 26, 1939) is a 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. Turner's success, dominance and popularity in Rock and Roll garnered her the title, … - Oral Roberts
Granville Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918) is an American neo-Pentecostal televangelist. He is also a leader in the charismatic movement and a former faith healer. - Megan Fox
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16 1986) is an American actress and model, perhaps best known for her roles on the television series "Hope", "Faith", and in the 2007 film "Transformers". - Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel". - Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple". - Black Fox
- Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds (born Burton Reynolds Jr. on February 11, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in "Deliverance", Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard", Bo 'Bandit' Darville in "Smokey and the Bandit", J.J. McClure in "The Cannonball Run" and Jack Horner in "Boogie Nights". - Yonaguska
Chief Yonaguska, who was also known as Drowning Bear, was a figure of persistence and endurance in the story of the Cherokee. Yonaguska challenged Rev. Schermerhorn to explain the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota that a handful of Cherokee had signed. He is also the only chief who remained in the hills to rebuild the Eastern Band with others who had escaped or eluded the soldiers. His adopted son, William Thomas, the only white chief the Cherokee ever had, … - Junaluska
Junaluska was a Cherokee hero to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who reside in and around western North Carolina. Junaluska was born around 1779, approximately 15 miles south of Franklin, NC near present day Dillard, GA. A few days after his birth, he was given his first name when the cradle board holding him fell over. He was called in the Cherokee language Gu-Ka-Las-Ki, which in english, translates to "One who falls from a leaning position". - Sophia Santi
Sophia Santi (born December 6, 1981 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian pornographic actress. Earlier in her career she modelled under the name Natalia Cruz. Santi was born in Winnipeg but grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. At age 18, she moved to her mother's home state of Arizona, and at age 20, she moved to Los Angeles, California. She has said her father is Romanian with his ancestors being Gypsies, and her mother is Black Irish, German and Cherokee. - Sequoyah
Sequoyah, known as George Guess, Guest or Gist, was a Cherokee silversmith who invented the Cherokee syllabary, thus earning him a place on the list of inventors of writing systems. - James Mooney
James Mooney (1861-1921) was a notable anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He was born at Richmond, Indiana. In 1885 he became connected with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D.C. He compiled a tribal list containing 3,000 titles. His most notable work was his ethnographic study of the Ghost Dance, … - Stand Watie
Stand Watie (12 December 1806 - 9 September 1871) (also known as Degataga "stand firm" and Isaac S. Watie) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the American Indian cavalry made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole. - Karen McDougal
Karen McDougal (born March 23 1971) is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in "Playboy" magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year of 1998. A former Pre-Kindergarten teacher, McDougal was the first woman to appear on the cover of Mens Fitness. In addition her popular PMOY video appeared frequently on the VH1 hit show "Pop Up Video". - Bob Johnson
Robert Lee Johnson (November 26 1905 - July 6 1982), nicknamed "Indian Bob", was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three American League teams from 1933 to 1945, primarily the Philadelphia Athletics. He was the fifth player to have nine consecutive seasons of 20 or more home runs, and his 288 career HRs ranked eighth in major league history when he retired. Usually playing on inferior teams, he batted .300 five times, … - Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is a Grammy Award winning American Singer. - Nancy Ward
Nanye-hi ("One Who Goes About"), known in English as Nancy Ward was a "ghighua", or "beloved woman" of the Cherokee nation, which meant that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the other Beloved Women, on pardons. She believed in peaceful coexistence with white people. - Elias Boudinot
Elias Boudinot (1800-1839) was a Cherokee Indian who started and edited the tribe's first newspaper. He was born in Georgia as Gallegina Watie (also known as "Buck" Watie or Buck Oowatie), edited the "Cherokee Phoenix" in the New Echota, and died in Oklahoma. Gallegina means Deer, therefore, he was called "Buck" Watie before changing his name. He took the name "Elias Boudinot" from the man who paid for his education. - Thomas King
Thomas King (born 24 April 1943) is a noted Canadian novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about Canada's First Nations and is an outspoken advocate for First Nations causes. He is of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent. Born in Sacramento, California, he worked in Australia as a photojournalist before moving to Canada in 1980. King is currently an English professor at the University of Guelph and lives in Guelph, Ontario. - Major Ridge
Major Ridge was a Cherokee Indian leader and protoge, along with Charles R. Hicks, of the noted figure James Vann. - Wes Studi
Born in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, Studi was schooled on a reservation. Until he attended grade school, he spoke only Cherokee. In 1967, he was drafted into the Army and served 18 months in Vietnam. After his discharge, Studi studied at Tulsa Junior College. He is best known for his roles as both brave and vicious Indians, in such roles as the Pawnee warrior in Dances With Wolves and as Magua in The Last of the Mohicans. - Dragging Canoe
Dragging Canoe (c. 1738 - March 1, 1792) was an American Indian war leader who led a dissident band of young Cherokees against the United States in the American Revolutionary War. Son of Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter" in English), who was part Shawnee, and a mother who was a Natchez living in a town of refugees from that tribes who had settled among the Overhill Towns on the Little Tennessee River, he contracted smallpox at a young age, which left his face pock-marked. - William Holland Thomas
William Holland Thomas (February 5, 1805 - May 10, 1893) was a Cherokee chief and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. - William Butler
William Butler (February 1, 1790 - September 25, 1850) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He was the son of William Butler (1759-1821), brother of Andrew Butler, and father of Matthew Butler all of whom served in the United States Congress. Butler was born in the Edgefield District, South Carolina near the present town of Saluda, South Carolina. He attended the common schools, and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1810. - James Robertson
James Robertson was a North Carolina farmer and explorer of the 18th century. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, of Scottish-Irish descent. Around 1750, his father relocated to Wake County, North Carolina. He worked on his father's farm and had no formal education. - James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (b. January 17, 1931) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage, well known for his deep baritone voice. - Little Turkey
- David Cornsilk
David Cornsilk is a Cherokee Nationalist, a supporter of the 1998 appeal filed by Bernice Riggs that is part of the Cherokee Freedmen Controversy, and a dual member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. He is the managing editor of the "Cherokee Observer", an independent newspaper, and one of the founders of the Cherokee National Party, a grassroots organization that uses the "Observer" to address Cherokee voters.
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