“All the major Cherokee characters are there.”
James Bradley
“I am a Cherokee and it's the proudest little possession I ever hope to have.”
Will Rogers
“My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.”
Wilma Mankiller
“We're looking for anything associated with the [Cherokee] removal, whether it be roads, forts, cemeteries, taverns ... Part of our job is to get the word out. Maybe someone will come forward who knows more than we do about it.”
Linda Baker
“My father was one eighth Cherokee and my mother one fourth Cherokee, which I figure makes me about an eighth cigar-store Injun.”
“Kathy is a fluent Cherokee speaker, ... So she makes sure that we're accurate on pronunciation and things like that.”
Kay Henderson
“We've never won this tournament since I've been here, and we've never beaten Cherokee. So this was a big step for us.”
Anthony Corrado
