This Seal of the Cherokee was done in 1790 adopted in
1791 and used as the official Seal through 1839 and the signing of the 1839 Constitution ...
The seal was redesigned and adopted by the
National Council and approved by Lewis Downing, Principal Chief on
December 11, 1871. 
done from the old
design notice the star pointing up. This design continued to 1989
, back in 1979 the first Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma flag was adopted
and raised for the first time had this seal in the center with seven
seven pointed stars around it. A picture of this seal hangs in the
lobby by the Resturant of the Cherokee, at the complex today if they
aint moved it.
Then in 1989 mankiller had the seal and
flag revised
by a Navajo artist that
had no idea about Cherokee coultue, he turned the star upside down and
changed the Oak leafs to some tropical leaf of some sort, and added a
black star was added to memeorialize the Cherokee lost on the trail of
tears,
The Easternband Cherokee figger into the seal deal as well, The
Seal at the top of this letter was from a hand drawing of the original
from an old photograph, the seal was revived along with the
1839 Constitution, UCN put on the back of the coin they had
minted back in 2000.
From the time mankiller had the new seal redone, the
easternband in NC took it an made it their seal as well their fony
history claimed it was adopted by the Cherokee in 1839..Then in 2001 a
year after the UCN made the seal their official seal, and I posted it
on the NET, the EBC took the UCN design from the back of the coin
and made them a flag and seal, and it is found on their official website
and claim it was
their Cherokee seal from 1870
In the beginning in in 2001 they took the ucn seal from the coin
an made the star upside down like mankillers Then I guess they done a
little reaearch and found the UCN had it right
they turned it back over.
Then to further prove the point should point up the Keetoowah put
the seven pointed star with the Oak leafs on their seal and flag.
by a Navajo artist that
had no idea about Cherokee coultue, he turned the star upside down and
changed the Oak leafs to some tropical leaf of some sort, and added a
black star was added to memeorialize the Cherokee lost on the trail of
tears,
and claim it was
their Cherokee seal from 1870