Cherokee Ancestry. About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or Indian Nation that lived in the southeast part of what is now the United States.During the 1830's and 1840's, the period covered by the Indian Removal Act, many Cherokees were moved west to a territory that is now the State of Oklahoma.herokee Ancestry. About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or Indian Nation that lived in the southeast part of what is now the United States.
The Role of Political Parties in Texas Politics. 1. Perhaps the most important function of parties in Texas is that they provide a label under which candidates may run and with which voters may identify. 2. Approximately 91 percent of Texas voters either identify with or lean toward the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.
Political Parties in Texas. Compounding the problem of voter fatigue that results from frequent elections for a dizzying number of offices is the historical dominance in Texas of only one or two political parties at any one time.he period of Democratic Party dominance in Texas  from the Civil War to the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s  was characterized in part by the systematic exclusion of African Americans and other minorities from political participation.