If the question refers to the reputed "ten lost tribes" of Israel, they would have been Semitic, not American Indian. Ethnically, there is no relationship between the Israelites and the Cherokee. Moreover, the American Indians had allready been in the Americas for thousands of years before the destruction of Israel in 722 BCE.
Biblical legend has it that there were twelve tribes of the Hebrew people, ten of whom lived in the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel and two tribes in southern Judah. When the Assyrians finally conquered Israel, they deported many of the inhabitants, replacing them in what was now the Assyrian province of Samaria, with conquered peoples from elsewhere in the empire. The former Israelites gradually assimilated into their host communities, adopting their religions and cultures, until they entirely lost their ethnic identity. Thus, the legend of the ten lost tribes.
The Cherokee was a nation or tribe itself
The Cherokee and Yuchi of southeastern Kentucky and the Chickasaw of western Kentucky, however most of the state was the domain of the Shawnee.
The Assyrians conquered the 10 tribes of the northern Isrealites. They did not scatter the tribes, they sent their aristocracy of to Assyria to rule new peoples there. They imported a new aristocracy to rule the ten tribes who remained in place. By this technique, they had unsympathetic rulers who would control the people and not tolerate any uprisings. The Babylonians did the same thing later to the two southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin - sending off their aristocracy to Babylon to rule there, and importing a new aristocracy to rule the tribes.
"Mc" is a Scottish prefix (meaning 'from', I believe). The word originally was Gaelic (Irish)-- it means 'a helmet'. The word Maccabee is a Hebrew word with the root MKB, meaning 'hammer'. I doubt there is any relationship.
There were many Native American Tribes in the land that became Massachusetts. They included:AgawamNipmuckWampanoagMassachusettNarragansettNashawayNaumkeagNausetPaometPatuxetPennacookPocomtucPomkapoagSucconet
The Cherokee was a nation or tribe itself
The Cherokee did not slit their ears. The Shawnee did, and some Shawnee joined the Cherokee tribes. So, any ear slits were a tradition of the Shawnee and not really Cherokee.
There's no evidence to suggest that there's any kind of connection there. This sounds like one of many "Ten Lost Tribes" hypotheses, almost all of which can be dismissed offhand.
The word "Tribes" becomes ambiguous, as for example the Cherokee (Tsalagi) had 23 sub-tribes, and each of these were broken into clans. Basically you could sub-divide to the point where 'millions' would be as good of an answer as any.
Cherokee Tribes are found in the mountains of North Carolina , Tennessee , Georgia and , I believe , Kentucky and are known as the Eastern Band. Others are found in Oklahoma and are known as the Western Band. Cherokee are found in Oklahoma because of being driven from their lands in the east to Oklahoma on The Trail Of Tears where four thousand or more Cherokee died. The removal was part of the white mans press to attain land , at any cost , from the Native Americans.
The Cherokee and Yuchi of southeastern Kentucky and the Chickasaw of western Kentucky, however most of the state was the domain of the Shawnee.
Yes, the Cherokee people had a form of sign language known as Plains Indian Sign Language, which was used for communication across different tribes in the Great Plains region of North America. This sign language was not specific to the Cherokee tribe, but they may have used it for communication with other tribes.
The Cherokee, like other Native tribes did not have religion. Only spirituality in how they live their life. Today, most Cherokee are Christian and non traditional. Only a very small percentage are traditional. Much of their spiritual beliefs and rituals have been lost to them since before the trail of tears. This is because they converted early to Christianity before the Trail of Tears and lived among missionaries who converted them.
The aborigines of Australia and the bushman of Africa are indigenous tribes, as are any of the Native Americans (e.g., Lakota, Cherokee, Apache, etc.). To "meet" any of them would require going to where they live.
The Assyrians conquered the 10 tribes of the northern Isrealites. They did not scatter the tribes, they sent their aristocracy of to Assyria to rule new peoples there. They imported a new aristocracy to rule the ten tribes who remained in place. By this technique, they had unsympathetic rulers who would control the people and not tolerate any uprisings. The Babylonians did the same thing later to the two southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin - sending off their aristocracy to Babylon to rule there, and importing a new aristocracy to rule the tribes.
Hawaiians never had any tribes.
Cherokee lived mainly throughout the southern and south central area of what is now the united states. That is not to say that is the only place they were located, bands of Cherokee were spread out over a vast area east of the 'plains' and often intermingled with other tribes.