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Cherokee Female Seminary
The Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school for Cherokee women opened at Park Hill in 1851 and absorbed into Northeastern State University in 1909.
Cherokee language
Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ, Tsa-la-gi, ISO chr) is an Iroquoian language of Oklahoma and North Carolina, written in Sequoyah's 1821 syllabary, with roughly 2,000 first-language speakers and major Cherokee Nation revitalization programs.
Cherokee Male Seminary
The Cherokee Male Seminary was a tribal boarding school near Tahlequah in the Cherokee Nation, offering Cherokee boys a high school education from 1851 until its building burned in 1910.
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.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), a Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall held the Cherokee Nation was a 'domestic dependent nation,' not a foreign state, so it could not sue Georgia under Article III; the case was dismissed, with Worcester v. Georgia following in 1832.
Cherokee National Council
The Cherokee National Council was the legislature of the Cherokee Nation, serving as the lower house under the 1827 constitution and the sole legislative body under the 1839 constitution.
Cherokee removal
Cherokee removal was the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation from homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina to Indian Territory in 1837–1839, remembered as the Trail of Tears.
Cherokee Supreme Court
The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court is the highest court of the Cherokee Nation, a federally recognized tribe in northeastern Oklahoma, with five justices seated at Tahlequah.
Cherokee syllabary
The Cherokee syllabary, also known as the Cherokee script, is a writing system for the Cherokee language. It was invented by Sequoyah and completed in 1821.
Cherokee–American wars
The Cherokee–American wars, also called the Chickamauga Wars, were conflicts fought in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between the Cherokee and American settlers.
Cherokee–Creek wars
The Cherokee–Creek wars were intermittent conflicts between the Cherokee and the Muscogee (Creek) peoples of the American Southeast from about 1715 to 1753 or 1755, fought over hunting grounds and the deerskin trade.
Cherry Creek School District
Cherry Creek School District, also known as Cherry Creek Schools, is a public school district serving the southeast Denver metro area, formed in 1950 and enrolling about 53,000 students.
Cherry Valley Massacre
The Cherry Valley Massacre was a November 1778 attack by British-allied Iroquois and Loyalist rangers on Cherry Valley, New York, killing about 30 civilians and taking 70 captive.
Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-based, pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Filip Dames and Christian Meermann, which invests from pre-seed to Series A and raised a $500 million fund in 2025.
Cherryrock Capital
Cherryrock Capital is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Stacy Brown-Philpot and Saydeah Howard, backing software startups led by underinvested founders.
Cherub
A cherub, plural cherubim, is a winged composite creature of contested form in the Hebrew Bible, guarding Eden, bearing God as a chariot, and attending his throne.
Chervonyi shliakh
Chervonyi shliakh (Червоний шлях, "The Red Path") was a Ukrainian socio-political and literary monthly published in Kharkiv from 1923 to 1936, and a leading organ of Soviet Ukrainization policy.
Cheryl A. Krause
Cheryl A. Krause, also known as Cheryl Ann Krause, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Third Circuit since 2014.
Cheryl Araujo
Cheryl Ann Araujo, New Bedford gang rape victim (Big Dan's Tavern case, 1983), whose televised 1984 trial aired her identity; four men convicted, she died in Miami in 1986; inspired The Accused.
Cheryl Kagan
Cheryl C. Kagan is an American Democratic politician in the Maryland State Senate from District 17 since 2015, after serving in the House of Delegates from 1995 to 2003.
Cheryl Riley (Maryland politician)
Cheryl Riley is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Maryland's 8th Congressional District, running against incumbent Democrat Jamie Raskin after an unsuccessful 2022 Montgomery County Council race.
Cheryl Thomas
Cheryl Thomas is a Minneapolis human rights lawyer, founder of Global Rights for Women (2014) and former director of the Women's Human Rights Program at The Advocates for Human Rights; distinct from UCL jury scholar Cheryl Thomas.
Chesa Boudin
Chesa Boudin, former San Francisco public defender, served as district attorney from January 2020 until his June 2022 recall. His progressive policies included ending cash bail and expanding diversion; he was recalled with about 55-60% of the vote.
Chesapeake campaign
The Chesapeake campaign (April 23, 1813 – September 14, 1814) was the War of 1812's British raiding and amphibious offensive in Chesapeake Bay, culminating in the burning of Washington and the failed assault on Baltimore and Fort McHenry.
Chesed (חֶסֶד)
Chesed (חסד, ḥesed) is the Hebrew word for kindness or steadfast love, a central biblical term occurring nearly 250 times, one of God's 13 attributes of mercy, the basis of rabbinic gemilut chasadim, and a sefira in Kabbalah balancing Gevurah.
Chesed (חסד) (Kabbalah)
Chesed (חסד) is the fourth of the ten sefirot in Kabbalah, representing unbounded loving-kindness, personified by Abraham, and balanced by the severity of Gevurah.
Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (1829–1886), 21st U.S. president (1881–1885), succeeded James Garfield after his assassination; former New York machine politician and Port of New York collector who signed the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883.
Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus
The Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Chester Beatty VI, is an Egyptian medical papyrus from Deir el-Medina and the earliest known treatise on anorectal diseases.
Chester Nez
Chester Nez (1921-2014) was a Navajo US Marine, one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers of World War II who devised the unbreakable Navajo code, served at Guadalcanal, Guam, and Peleliu, received the 2001 Congressional Gold Medal, and was the last surviving member of the First Twenty-Nine.
Chester Turner
Chester Dewayne Turner, the Southside Slayer-era Los Angeles serial killer, raped and strangled at least 14 women and one unborn child, 1987-1998; identified by DNA cold hit in 2003, sentenced to death in 2007 and 2014, on San Quentin death row.