Cherokee Nation Crossword Puzzle

About the Cherokee Nation Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle focuses on the Cherokee Nation, its history, government, language, and communities, especially in Oklahoma. Search for names such as Sequoyah and Wilma Mankiller, places like Tahlequah, and terms including the Cherokee syllabary and Cherokee Phoenix. It is suited to learners exploring Cherokee history and culture or studying Native American nations in a classroom.

This crossword draws on 34 clues about Cherokee Nation. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •State crossed on the forced westward journey (8 letters)
• •Historic Tulsa tree marking a Muscogee settlement site (10 letters)
• •State where forced migration west began (7 letters)
• •1893 rush to claim parcels in Oklahoma (7 letters)
• •Beloved Woman known in English as Nancy Ward (7 letters)
• •Forced expulsion from ancestral lands (7 letters)
• •Nation's highest judicial body (12 letters)
• •Name for the deadly forced westward migration of 1838–39 (12 letters)

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