A short story on the history of the Cherokee seal and flag
The Seal of the Cherokee Nation was done in 1790 adopted in 1791 and used as the official Seal through 1839 and the signing of the Constitution. The Picture on the left was taken from a hand drawing of an old photo of the orignal Cherokee Nation Seal.
                          
The seal was redesigned, next picture, and adopted by the National Council and approved by Lewis Downing, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation on December 11, 1871, done from the old design notice the star pointing up. A picture of this seal hangs in the lobby by the Restaurant of the Cherokee, at the complex today if it hasn't been moved. The next picture a flag with this design continued to fly over the Cherokee Nation along with the UKB up to1979, at which time the first Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma flag was commissioned, adopted and raised for the first time, had this same seal in the center with the seven pointed star turned upside down. when Ross Swimmer kicked the UKB out of the tribal complex, he commissioned a Navajo to design a new flag, the orange  flag they fly at the CNO headquarters. The Navajo artist had no idea about Cherokee culture, he turned the star upside down and changed the Oak leafs to some tropical leaf of some sort, the black star memorializes the Cherokee lost on the trail of tears.
 
The Eastern band Cherokee figure into the seal deal as well, from the time Swimmer had the seal redone, the Eastern band in NC took it an made it their seal as well their phony history claimed it was adopted by the Cherokee in 1839...Then in 2001 a year after Robin Mayes and the UCN made the the origional seal shown up above their official seal, and it was posted on the NET, the EBC took the UCN design and made them a seal, and it is found on their official web site today as pictured below on the flag. In the beginning in 2001 they took the ucn seal an turned the star upside down like Swimmer did as you can see here Then I guess they done a little research and discovered the UCN had it right,  they turned it back over,  produced this flag with the seal and the star positioned properly  and claim it was their Cherokee seal from 1870, but the complete lie is glaring from the seal itself, around the seal it Says "Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation" There is no Eastern band of the Cherokee Nation, they are simply an eastern band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, absolutely no different than the United Band of Keetoowah Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (UKB), just a few years older, and this lie needs to be corrected.
 
Then to further prove one point of the star should point up, the Keetoowah put the seven pointed star with the oak leafs on their seal and flag as it should be by fact of Cherokee culture, as seen here and where ever they need to fly their flag.