The Cherokee nation as of 2011 has roughly three hundred thousand registered. Oklahoma has the largest population of the groups and as of 2006 it is at approximately a hundred eighty thousand. When the Cherokees encountered the Europeans it destroyed many of their population with the smallpox disease in 1738 due to the lack of immunity killing almost half of their tribe. In 1835 a removal act that was passed would latter devastate more of the Cherokee population, in 1838 president Jackson ordered the U.S Army to remove these people from there homeland and many died in prisons while being held. When the march west began of the estimated twenty thousand marchers four thousand died in turn ended with the march being called the Trail Of Tears. Including the Cherokee nation being in the American civil war another estimated twenty five percent was lost from the
The Cherokee nation as of 2011 has roughly three hundred thousand registered. Oklahoma has the largest population of the groups and as of 2006 it is at approximately a hundred eighty thousand. When the Cherokees encountered the Europeans it destroyed many of their population with the smallpox disease in 1738 due to the lack of immunity killing almost half of their tribe. In 1835 a removal act that was passed would latter devastate more of the Cherokee population, in 1838 president Jackson ordered the U.S Army to remove these people from there homeland and many died in prisons while being held. When the march west began of the estimated twenty thousand marchers four thousand died in turn ended with the march being called the Trail Of Tears. Including the Cherokee nation being in the American civil war another estimated twenty five percent was lost from the