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Chelsi Smith
Chelsi Smith (Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith, 1973-2018), American actress, singer, and beauty queen; Miss Texas 1994, Miss USA 1995, and Miss Universe 1995 crowned in Windhoek, Namibia; died of liver cancer at 45; Miss USA's Congeniality Award now honors her.
Cherokee
The Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ) are an Iroquoian-speaking Native American people of the southeastern United States. Three federally recognized tribes survive, led by the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with over 470,000 citizens, a 7,000-square-mile Oklahoma reservation, and the 1838 Trail of Tears removal in its history.
Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ), the largest of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, is a sovereign tribal government in northeastern Oklahoma with over 450,000 citizens, Dawes Rolls-based citizenship, a 14-county reservation, and a constitutional government under a 1976 constitution.
Cheyenne
The Cheyenne (Tsitsistas/Suhtai) are a Central Algonquian-speaking Plains Indian people of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, now the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
Chhetri (क्षेत्री)
Chhetri (क्षेत्री, also Kshetri, Chettri) is Nepal's largest caste/ethnic group: 4,796,995 people, 16.45% in the 2021 census, descended from the Khas people and titled Chhetri by the Muluki Ain of 1853-54.
Chicago rat hole
The Chicago rat hole was a rodent-shaped animal imprint on a sidewalk at 1918 W Roscoe St, Roscoe Village, viral from January 2024 after Winslow Dumaine's X post; removed April 2024, and a 2025 study found it was made by a squirrel.
Chicano
Chicano: identity label for US-born Mexican Americans, reclaimed in the 1960s-1970s Chicano civil rights movement from a formerly derogatory term; related forms Chicana, Chicanx, Xicano; decline in general discourse by the late 1970s.
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw are a Muskogean-speaking Native American people of the Southeast, historically of northern Mississippi and adjacent states, now the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma; smallest of the Five Civilized Tribes, removed in 1837.
Chico Xavier
Chico Xavier, born Francisco Cândido Xavier (1910–2002), was a Brazilian Spiritist medium who psychographed over 400 books, donated all royalties to charity, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it, ca. 1840–1904) led the non-treaty Nez Perce Wallowa band; his 1877 surrender message "I will fight no more forever" at Bear Paw is the best-known but textually contested Native American speech.
Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi: the senior state-recognized rabbinic authority of a country or major Jewish community, from the Ottoman ḥakham bashi (hahambashi) of 1835 and Haim Nahum's 1909 election to Israel's two-office Chief Rabbinate and Britain's 1845 Chief Rabbi.
Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle (Si'ahl, c. 1780s-1866), Duwamish and Suquamish leader and namesake of Seattle, Washington, signed the 1855 Point Elliott Treaty; the famous environmental speech attributed to him is largely a later fabrication.
Chimney sweep
Chimney sweep: a trade cleaning flues with brushes and rods to remove creosote and soot. Covers methods, chimney-fire and cancer hazards, child climbing-boy legislation to 1875, and modern regulation and decline.
Chin people (ချင်းလူမျိုး)
Chin people (ချင်းလူမျိုး), also called Zo peoples, are Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups of northwestern Myanmar's Chin State, northeastern India, and Bangladesh: about 500,000 in Chin State, largely Christian, divided into six tribes and 63 sub-tribes.
Chinatown, San Francisco
Chinatown, San Francisco: oldest Chinatown in North America, founded 1849 during the Gold Rush, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake; about 24-30 blocks, 32,600+ residents, 4,000 small businesses, second-largest Chinese American community in the US.
Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry, about 1.7% of the U.S. population and the largest Asian American subgroup. The article covers the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, its 1943 repeal, and documented modern discrimination.
Chinese Canadians (加拿大华人)
Chinese Canadians (加拿大华人) are Canadians of Chinese origin, the country's second-largest racialized group: 1.7 million people, 4.7% of the population in 2021, concentrated in Toronto and Vancouver.
Chinese Cubans
Chinese Cubans, Cubans of Chinese ancestry (culí-era descendants of the 1847–1874 coolie trade, about 141,000 indentured Guangdong laborers), later free migrants, Havana's Barrio Chino, independence-war service, and post-1959 decline and revival.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed May 6, 1882, suspended Chinese laborer immigration for ten years, barred Chinese naturalization, was extended by the Scott and Geary Acts, and was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act with a 105-person quota.
Chinese immigration to Brazil
Chinese immigration to Brazil is the migration of people from China to Brazil, beginning in 1809 and growing greatly from the 1970s; an estimated 250,000 to 280,000 lived in Brazil as of 2024.
Chinese immigration to the Straits Settlements
Chinese immigration to the Straits Settlements was the large-scale movement of migrants from southern China to the British territories of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore in the 19th century.
Chinese Indonesians
Chinese Indonesians (Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) are people of Chinese descent in Indonesia, the world's largest Chinese diaspora at roughly 2-4% of the population; defined by colonial-era migration, New Order assimilation, the 1965 and 1998 violence, and post-1998 citizenship reform.
Chinese Jamaicans
Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, mostly Hakka from Guangdong, beginning with 472 arrivals from Panama in 1854; indenture peaked 1853-1866, shopkeeping defined the community, riots struck 1918, 1938, 1965, and descendants now run supermarkets, hotels, and banks.
Chinese kin
Chinese kin (宗族 zongzu, 家族 jiazu): the patrilineal kinship system of China, its finely differentiated terminology, lineage organizations, Fei Xiaotong's analysis, and its persistence and change in contemporary urbanizing China.
Chinese people
Chinese people (Zhongguoren, Huaren, Hanren) are the people of China and of Chinese descent worldwide, classified by the state into 56 ethnic groups: the Han majority (91.11% in 2020) plus 55 minorities, with a diaspora across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Chinese Peruvians
Chinese Peruvians, or tusán (土生), are Peruvians of Chinese descent, begun by ~100,000 coolies arriving from 1849 under Ramón Castilla's Ley China; ended by 1874 treaty; legacy includes chifa cuisine, Lima's Barrio Chino, and roughly 5–8% of the population.
Chinese Singaporeans (新加坡华人)
Chinese Singaporeans (新加坡华人) are Singapore's majority ethnic group, 74.3% of residents at Census 2020, descended largely from migrants from Guangdong and Fujian, shaped by the 1979 Speak Mandarin Campaign and a distinct Peranakan subgroup.
Chink
Chink is an English ethnic slur against Chinese and East Asian people, attested in that sense from 1901; distinct from the older noun meaning a crack. It saw resurgence during COVID-19 and has documented in-group reclamation uses.
Chipping Norton set
The Chipping Norton set: media, political, and show-business circle around David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks with homes near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire; famous after the 2011 phone hacking scandal, coined by Stephen Glover, dissolved after Leveson.
Chiricahua
The Chiricahua, an Apache division of southern Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, fought the U.S. Army from 1861 to Geronimo's 1886 surrender, then endured 27 years of exile; descendants form the Fort Sill Apache Tribe and part of the Mescalero Apache Tribe.