Cherokee Nation Warriors Society

The Cherokee Nation Warriors Society is a society of Cherokee Nation tribal members who are also military veterans, and who were honorably discharged from military service. The society is based in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and is administered by the Cherokee Nation Office of Veterans Affairs. Most of the society members participate in the Gourd Dance.

Membership in this society is open to all veterans of the Cherokee Nation of any branch of military service. The Cherokee Nation Warriors Society members and those veterans who gave their lives in military service have bricks with their names inscribed paving the Cherokee Nation Warriors Memorial and Pavilion located at the Cherokee Nation Headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The memorial is dedicated to all Cherokee Citizens and their families who served honorably in the United States Military and to those who gave their lives in defense of the United States and the Cherokee homeland.

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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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