The Cherokee Nation – largest of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast – is a people of Iroquoian lineage.
The Cherokee, who called themselves ‘Ani’-Yun’ wiya’ – ‘Principal People’ – the ‘Keetoowah’ – ‘People of Kituhwa’ – or Tsalagi from their own name for the Cherokee Nation – migrated to the Southeast from the Great Lakes Region.
