| Cherokee workwear scrubs is proud of its name. The | | | | army of Cherokees under the leadership of the |
| Cherokee nation is Native American people who - at | | | | governor of South Carolina fought the Tuscarora |
| the time of the European incursion into the Americas | | | | War, which led to the defeat of the Tuscarora tribe |
| in the 1500's - occupied what is now the East and | | | | but united the Native American groups and English |
| Southeastern portion of the United States. They | | | | colonists who had fought together. It also led the |
| refer to themselves in their own language as the | | | | Cherokees to a military supremacy in the area vis a |
| Principal People, or "Za la gee". They are one of the | | | | vis neighboring tribes. |
| Five civilized tribes, and are the largest of the five | | | | In 1730 Chief Moytoy was chosen as supreme leader |
| hundred legally recognized tribes of Native Americans | | | | of the Cherokee. This chief united the Cherokee |
| in the U.S. | | | | Nation and allied with the English. A Cherokee scrub |
| The Cherokee language is of Iroquoian origin, | | | | pants delegation was sent to the court of King |
| indicating that the Cherokee may have originally | | | | George II in England, and this visit resulted in a treaty |
| migrated south from the Great Lakes region, perhaps | | | | of alliance between the Cherokee and English. |
| between 1800 and 1500 B.C.E. The original Cherokee | | | | However, interaction with the English led to a |
| city may have been located near present day Bryson | | | | smallpox epidemic in 1738 which wiped out half the |
| City, NC. Early European visitors wrote of a number | | | | Cherokee population in a year. After the American |
| of Cherokee towns located from the Allegheny | | | | Revolution, white encroachment continued on |
| Mountains across the piedmont, from eastern | | | | Cherokee lands - particularly after gold was |
| Tennessee to Georgia. The first English encounter | | | | discovered near Dahlonega Georgia - which led to |
| with the Cherokee occurred in 1654. English fur | | | | friction between whites and Cherokees, including raids |
| traders sent an expedition to the Cherokee in 1673, | | | | on settlements. In the 1830's most Cherokee were |
| and over the next hundred years fur traders from | | | | forcibly removed from their ancestral land in the |
| South Carolina and Virginia were journeying regularly | | | | Carolinas and Georgia, and moved to the Ozark |
| to trade with the Cherokee. In exchange for | | | | Plateau, which migration is called the "Trail of Tears". |
| deerskins - used in the leather industry in Europe - | | | | Men, women, and children were forced out of their |
| the Cherokees obtained iron and steel implements | | | | homes at bayonet point and prodded like cattle into |
| and tools, as well as firearms and ammunition. | | | | concentration camps. Cherokee opposition leaders |
| In the early 1700's this trade was curtailed by slavery | | | | were murdered, and any Cherokee who opposed |
| laws put in place by South Carolina's governor Moore | | | | was beaten or killed. |
| to reduce the Cherokee scrubs to chattel. In 1712 an | | | | |