Official Recognition
We are not a United States Federally Recognized Tribe and do not plan to seek Federal Recognition since our ancestors never signed a Treaty with the United States Government.
We are recognized by the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza and Federally Recognized by the Republic of Mexico under the San Andres Accords, as well as recognized by the State of Texas and a member of the National Congress
of American Indians.
San Andres Accords, August 2001, Recognition by the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza and The Republic of Mexico.
In August of 2001, a 40 person entourage which included citizens of the Cherokee Nation of Mexico the Tsalagiyi Nvdagi Tribe and Oklahoma Cherokee headed by Chief Charles Rogers, Chief D.L. Hicks and Chief Al Herrin, traveled by bus from San Antonio, Texas to Saltillo the 421 year old, mile high Capital of Coahuila Mexico.
The Congress of the Republic of Mexico had recently passed legislation permitting recognition of Indigenous Tribes, and Governor Enrique Martinez y Martinez was the first in Mexico to act on it with the Official Recognition of the Cherokee in Coahuila. The recognition pronouncement and ceremonies took place at the Palacio Estatal in the Salon de Venustiano Carranza in Saltillo the Capitol City of Coahuila.
Coahuila Governor Enrique Martinez y Martinez declared the Cherokee Nation of Mexico including the Tsalagiyi Nvdagi (Texas Cherokee) to be an authentic tribe in Northern Coahuila and on August 31, 2001 signed the recognition document making the recognition of the Cherokee an Official Act. The Governor then presented several gifts to the Cherokee delegation, among them a handsome bronze bust of an Eagle. The Mexican Eagle, whose feathers were more coveted than the Bald Eagle for their power, is the State symbol of Coahuila de Zaragoza.
