Larry Melanson, age 17, of Calgary, alta., canada, for his question:

What happened to the Cherokee Tribe?

About 300,000 original Americans now make their homes in oklahoma, and this state has a larger Indian population than any other. It is the home state of more than 80 different tribes, and many of them are of the Cherokee nation. Other Cherokee indians live on their lands in North Narolina, near where their ancestors farmed the valleys among the Appalachian Mountains.

Chief Sequoya gave his name to the giant redwood tree, and Cherokee history records courageous battles and intelligent government. There were disputes with the early settlers, and in 1838, most of the tribe trekked westward to settle in what later became Oklahoma, and here the majority of the tribe still lives.