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                                                                                        Cherokee Nation
                                                                                        Secret Societies
        HOOTCH, CUM. BTCERnSW. 6970
        Out Hwaalafbird, laterriewer
        Iadl«»-Pio»ttr History
        Jaly W, 1937
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                       Tala latsrriew witk Mr. Hogaar
                       la a story told to kin by his folka
                       o* aaarat societies, politloa aad
                       rllotmeat.
               01am Hogner la a fullblood Cherokee bora U
        Ooiagamaka District Septeitoer 18, 1886. Hla fatker •
        dlad^wkaa Clan vaa a email child and his widowsd
        mothar reared ead tried to aduoate him la the school?
        of tia Cherokea Nat lorn. Clem r4oalred a fair eduoatioa
        la taa rural aokoola of tkat tin. He completed tka
        aixtk grada*
               Mr. Hogaar kaows maay tkinet oonoeraing tka
        kiatory of tka Cherokaa^people befora statehood aa
        told to kla\ by hla folka, who were a well to do
        fe.aily dmrlmg tka territorial days. They were all
        aambara of tka "Night Hawk".
                           Sacrat Societiea
               fka oldaat aaorat aoeiety kuowa.tmoHf the
        Cherokeaa la tka Kaa-Too-ffak• Thi« Society according
        to tka old timera started baok ia tka old country or
        la tka Cherokee Natloa east.
               Tka beglaaiag. of thia aoeiety waa caused by
        tka Oherokeee thamselTi»s. Tka Oherokaaa llrad la
        tka three states of Teaaeasee, Qaorgla aid Korth
        Caroliaa. The whita people llred all aroumd the
        OkeroKeea, aad la aoa» of tkese states war* erea
         BOWK, ouu. nrasmiw.
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         allowad to rater by tiae Ckerokaas ta«asalv«o, pro-
         Tidiag tkay kad aona kind of tradt wkiok would kalp
         tka Gkarokaas devalop tktlr coumtry*
                Ita«y wkita asm amtered tkose atataa by just
         kariig grlat *ill« or taw aills. Tkase the Cheroktts
         tkougkt w«r» Atoastary la tkt dtvtlopowat of tkeir
         ooumtry. '
                tkosa wklt« paopla iho war* permittad ia
         tkaat atataa waro aot allowad to vota at first but
         if a peraittad wkita oaa marritd a Okaroksa, ka
         tka& baoama a oasbar of tkat triba. Tki» law was
        ~paiiia~by tka aixad bloods savcral yaara after ;
         allowing whita paopla ia tkesa stataa. By tkat tima
         tkara wara maay nixad blood Ckarokaaa ia tkoaa tkr«a
         atataa 'aad tkarafora tka dkerokaaa baoama a nixtd
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         triba. >• '
                Sokoola wara.aatabliskad also* Ttfia oauaad
         troub^L* witk tka old Okarokaaa. Tka okildraa laarnad
         mora waya lika tka whlta aam. Tka old Gkerokaaa olaia
         tkia waa oaa tking tkat hastaaad tke "Hamoval." '
         Aftar tka youager ga&aratioa raoairad am eduoatiom
         tkay baoasis aaart- stta. Tkay laaraad tka gaat of
         "graft"; gattiag by at tka axpasaa of otkara« Tka '
     HOOHKB, OUM. IKTERVIIW.
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     Ridges and the BDudi,notSi ware ell mart me*.
         These youag people becoming so a»art and
     learning tke fame of graft was tke cause of tke
     Kee-Too-Wak orcAAisatioB* Som* poopl* claim that tk«
     a«id orguiiuitlom waa a spirit or SOB* Supreme
     Beiig that tk« Charokeea belieTad existed to protect
     tit*. Kee-Too-Wik it mot a G he role en word at all,
     Maay Okerokees ttactk tkat tkts word BM«ES a treaty*
     It is aot ao. Mr. Hogmer's sotkar waa a aieoe of
     Ale« Bigwolfe wko oame from Hortk OarolUa la 1837.
     Mrs. Hogur ui bora Just four yesre aftar tka
     ~0karok*aa OSJB* to~tkla
     unole, tka aaid Bigwolfe, waa a amber of tke
     Xse-Too-Wak orgBniratlon. fro* tkia source, Oleei
     Hogner atatea tkat tkia waa just a name given to
     tkia society. Tka old Okerokeea knew tkat tke /
     educated Gherokeea^were going to betray tke tribe*
     Sojtkey formed tkia organization to protect tkeir
     oouatry. Tkere waa already muck talk about moving
     tke,Okerokeea to tke Western oouatry, and tkey knew -
     tkat tka younger pea were aot aa koaest aa tke older"
     oaea. Tke younger educated Cherokees aad those wko
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     intermarried wltk tke whites had increased to suck aa