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 When we left S. Colorado for our new home in N. Carolina we moved to a County named Cherokee. We left the oldest city in Colorado for the County named after the largest Indian nation in the country. When we left San Luis - the oldest city in Colorado - which had a rich Hispanic history which we really enjoyed. 

The Cherokee Nation has a long standing and rich heritage in our new area and many roads, rivers and mountains are named after them. They also assimilated into the American culture very well. They have their own form of government which seems from what I have read much more successful than our current form of partisan government. 

The Cherokee value empathy for their community where they support others in the community and honor and live united. I have read that they seek balance and harmony, which seems something we citizens have lost sight of. Today the Cherokee Nation is very wealthy. When kids graduate school a fund with several hundreds of thousands of dollars is set aside for them. Health care and further education is paid for by the tribe. 

In reading about the Cherokee it seems that they have strong family values such as humility, honesty, character, and integrity which many of our citizens have lost track of.  They own and operate a casino not 15 minutes from us. They have their own government, social services and law enforcement. From what little research I have read they exemplify what our country used to be. I think I am going to like living in Cherokee County as the history is equally as rich as where we moved from. The more I read and learn the more appreciative I am with the Cherokee and Cherokee County N.C.