Also name the female American top singer and actress that is also part Cherokee???
2006-09-01 02:36:38 · 18 answers · asked by pixie007 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
These are all the famous people that were part cherokee.
Joe Byrd, Former Chief, Cherokee Nation. Attempted to overthrow the Cherokee Nation Government in the early 1990s which resulted in deployment of Federal Troops by the United States to restore order on Cherokee Nation Tribal Lands. Was also accused of embezzlement of Cherokee Nation funds by the Cherokee Nation Judicial Branch.
Bryan Callen, actor
Charisma Carpenter, actress
Cher, of Cherokee, Irish, German and English descent.
Brad Carson, Former United States Congressman, Head of Cherokee Nation Enterprises, Tribal Member Cherokee Nation
Ned Christie, Famous Outlaw and Frontiersman during Oklahoma Settlement, Tribal Member, Cherokee Nation
Rita Coolidge, singer
Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert, aka Chief Tahachee, actor
Jerry Ellis, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 book Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Commander Ernest E. Evans, U.S. Navy WWII hero; awarded Medal of Honor
John Nance Garner, Representative from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States
Diane Glancy, poet, novelist and playwright
Hawk Littlejohn, Native American flute maker and player
Arnold Kimsey King, University of North Carolina administrator and historian
Thomas King, writer
Sonny Landham, Hollywood and pornographic actor
Karen McDougal[5], Playboy Playmate
Kenya Moore, Former Miss USA, African American actress
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey, American Computer Scientist, Former Chief Scientist of Novell, Author of Multiprocessor NetWare Operating System, Tribal Member Cherokee Nation
Charlie Musselwhite, blues harmonica player and bandleader
Jimi Hendrix, singer, guitarist
Chuck Norris, actor and martial artist
Nicole Ari Parker, African-American actress, former Soul Food Series (HBO) co-star
John Phillips, leader of The Mamas & the Papas
Jay Red Eagle, Native American flutist, Tribal Member Cherokee Nation
John Red Hat Duke (Keetoowah Leader) - leader of a Keetoowah Society Religious Movement, tribal member, Cherokee Nation
Della Reese, Legendary African-American singer, actress, reverend. Is half Cherokee
Burt Reynolds, actor. His father, a police chief, was half-Cherokee.
Will Rogers, humorist and entertainer [6]
Redbird Smith, Cherokee Leader and Statesman, Tribal Member, UKB
Wes Studi, actor (full Cherokee) Tribal Member Cherokee Nation
Johnny Depp, actor (mixed Cherokee/Irish/German heritage)
Christopher Judge, actor (mixed Cherokee/African heritage)
Don Frye, mixed martial arts champion fighter, actor, and professional wrestler (mixed Cherokee/Irish/Pensylvania Dutch heritage)
2006-09-01 02:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by Johny0555 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
James Hendrix was part black, part Cherokee Indian and part Mexican. He left school early, having developed a keen interest in music but unable to read it.
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939 - some sources say 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American pop/rock singer, Buddhist and occasional actress. She was born of African American, Navajo, and Cherokee ancestry in the Haywood Memorial Hospital in Brownsville, Tennessee and raised in Nutbush, Tennessee.
2006-09-01 02:41:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wayne Newton.
Newton was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the half-Indian son of an auto mechanic. (His father was Irish-Powhatan and his mother German-Cherokee.) Newton was active in show business at an early age. He learned the piano, guitar, and steel guitar at the age of six. Along with his older brother Jerry Newton, he appeared with the Grand Ole Opry roadshows, performed for President Harry S. Truman, and auditioned unsuccessfully for Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour.
2006-09-01 02:38:18 · answer #3 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix
2006-09-01 02:37:48 · answer #4 · answered by Hamish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cher fn rules!!! I don't know the musician but I wouldn't mind knowing.
Ahh Jimi awesome! I didn't actually realize that. Great question.
2006-09-01 02:38:42 · answer #5 · answered by Rock N' Roll Junkie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cher
2006-09-01 02:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by kdj204 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Cher is part Cherokee....... Im not sure about the male singer, though.....
2006-09-01 02:38:15 · answer #7 · answered by JusticeManEsq 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cher is the female not sure of male
2006-09-01 02:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mr Jeep
2006-09-03 07:17:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People, Cher is Middle Eastern, she's an Arab or Persian. Sonny Bono make that Indian thing up to make her PC!
I certainly hope you are NOT thinking of Gordon Lightfoot, because he's Canadian!
2006-09-01 03:18:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋