Click (UCN) Cherokee Seal For Some Additional History
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 1839 Constitution ...The Picture at the top of this
document is a picture of the back side of the United Cherokee Nation (UCN) Coin,
Tsa-La-Gi A-De-La (Cherokee Money) which was taken from a hand drawing of an
old photograph of the orignal Cherokee Nation Seal, belonging to Robin Mayes Grandmother, the
seal was revived along with the
1839 Constitution, by the UCN, and placed on the back of the coin they had
minted back in 2000, and today is the official Seal of the United
Cherokee Nation.
The seal was redesigned and adopted by the
National Council and approved by Lewis Downing, Principal Chief on
December 11, 1871. done from the old
design notice the star pointing up. This design continued to 1989
, back in 1979 the first Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma flag was adopted
and raised for the first time had this seal in the center with seven
seven pointed stars around it. A picture of this seal hangs in the
lobby by the Restaurant of the Cherokee, at the complex today if they
haven't moved it.
The flag of the UKB was originally the flag of the Cherokee
Nation, wich included the UKB. But 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 the UCN made the seal their official seal, and I posted it
on the NET, the EBC took the UCN design from the back of the coin
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 in 2001 they took the
ucn seal from the coin
an turned the star upside down like Swimmer did Then I guess they done a
little research and discovered the UCN had it right, they
turned it back over, produced this Flag with their
Seal and claim it was
their Cherokee seal from 1870
Then to further prove the point should point up the Keetoowah put
the seven pointed star with the Oak leafs on their seal and flag
as seen here.