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Hello and welcome to the website for the San Diego Cherokee Community. We are a newly formed satellite community of the Cherokee Nation created to act as the official point of contact between the Cherokee Nation and its citizens in the San Diego County area.

Our vision is to:
• Promote and nurture the historical values for Cherokee citizens living outside the Cherokee Nation boundaries.
• To learn and retain Cherokee language and culture for future generations.
• To be knowledgeable and assist the tribal nation in the issues facing modern Cherokee citizens.
• To disseminate information on issues and to act as liaison for the Cherokee Nation.
• To work in concert with other pilot California citizen organizations for the benefit of the Cherokee Nation as a whole.

This organization will be directed predominately by citizens of the Cherokee Nation. However, non-citizen Cherokees, family members, and non-Indians with an interest in the Cherokee Nation are also welcome to participate.



Schedule of Regular San Diego Cherokee Community Meetings.

Normally, the location is the Clairemont Community Center. 4731 Clariemont Drive.

It's located in the Clairemont Town Square behind Vons.

Sunday, September 21, 2008 - SDCC Special Event: 3-part special presentations on Cherokee identity issues by folks from tribal headquarters in Oklahoma.

Time: 1pm - Location: Lemon Grove United Methodist Church - 3205 Washington St , Lemon Grove , CA 91945



        

The first presentation will be by Julia Coates on identity formation among the Cherokes. She will also talk about the Cherokee clan system.

The second speaker will be Melanie Knight, who is the Secretary of State of the Cherokee Nation and she will talk about the hundreds of other "Cherokee" groups and why their claims are so problematic for CN.

The third speakers will be the team of Gene Norris and Roy Hamilton who are genealogists for the Cherokee Heritage Center and they will talk about the Dawes Rolls and the questions/misconceptions they most often encounter around Cherokee identity claims. Roy also heads the new Cherokee Artists Association, so he may even be able to talk a bit about the identity issues that involve Indian artists and the Cherokee Nation's "Truth in Advertising" legislation as the group's members' reactions to it.

Dessert and beverages will be served.

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Click here for directions to the September 2008 meeting loaction

Click here for directions to the Lake Murray loaction

Click here for a map to the Clairemont Community Center

Click here for a map to the De Anza Cove (Marker #4)

 



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