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Saturday, March 05, 2005

Cherokee Nation of Mexico History

"History of the Nacion Cherokee de Mexico
(Cherokee Nation of Mexico)"

Osiyo. Our grandfathers’ most ancient stories tell us that we Cherokees were in exodus and walked a great distance when we came to the ocean. With faith we built rafts and crossed the ocean, coming from the East to the West and established a life for ourselves in this new land of the Americas. About 1000 B.C., a people from a rubber tree forest invaded Eastern Mexico. The indigenous Mexicans called these newcomers the Olmec. They were a people completely obsessed with magic; we avoided them by traveling to the North.

The Olmecs: America's First Civilization
The Olmecs: America's First Civilization

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