Cherokee Southwest Township (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

The Cherokee Southwest Township (CSWT) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a large group of Cherokee families from the Cherokee Nation.

All of the township members originated in Eastern Oklahoma and migrated to New Mexico and are members of either the Cherokee Nation or United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. The township incorporated under the Cherokee Nation as a Cherokee Township for Cherokee Nation citizens who migrated to New Mexico during the Oklahoma dust bowl in the 1930s (the same migration wave that Cherokee migrant Florence Owens Thompson was part of).

The township has monthly meetings and hosts Cherokee language and history classes. The Albuquerque Cherokee Township has a significant number of native Cherokee speakers. Principal chief Chad "Corntassel" Smith visits the township four times per year.

References

External links

Cherokee Southwest Township (CSWT) — Cherokee Nation website
Cherokee Southwest Township celebrates culture, Cherokee Phoenix

Cherokee

Tribes	Cherokee Nation Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians

Culture	Society Cherokee National Holiday Clans Gadugi Green Corn Ceremony Language Marbles Mythology Stomp dance Booger dance Syllabary

History	Cherokee history Cherokee military history Treaties Kituwah Mound Ani-kutani Anglo-Cherokee War Cherokee–American wars Transylvania Purchase Sycamore Shoals Chickamauga Cherokee Cherokee Phoenix Treaty of New Echota Original Cherokee Nation Trail of Tears Timeline of Cherokee removal Civil War Keetoowah Nighthawk Society Cherokee Female Seminary Cherokee Male Seminary Cherokee Commission

Organizations	Cherokee Heritage Center Cherokee Nation Warriors Society Cherokee National Youth Choir Heritage groups Cherokee Preservation Foundation Original Keetoowah Society Oconaluftee Indian Village

Politics and law	Principal Chiefs Blood law Flag Freedman controversy Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

See also: Indigenous peoples of North America portal and Cherokee-language Wikipedia

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