 Such "Intermarried Whites" were listed in a separate category on the registers of the Dawes Rolls, prepared for allotment of plots of land to individual households of members of the tribe, in the early twentieth-century federal policy for assimilation of the Native Americans.See Cherokee ethnobotany

Men and women have historically played important yet, at times different, roles in Cherokee society.Historically, these roles have tended to support the idea of a balanced gender binary, with gender determining social and ceremonial roles.