ryan's definitions
by ryan May 17, 2003
Get the slugmug. Currently the largest tribe in the steadily-growing race known as Native American Indians. The Natives are, fortunately, making a comeback, and NOT just with casinos, dammit!
With well over 700,000 mixed- and full-blooded members, the Cherokee nation is the largest tribe in the entire United States. The "motherland" that the tribe inhabited, of which many still do, is known as the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee and very western North Carolina. The white settlers and slaveowners pushed a great number of my people off their lands, of which many of us thoroughly and bitterly resent them. It was those people who made this region the South, with their new countrified, Southeast-style culture and political opinions. They also believed that the Cherokees were nothing but savages and heathens, VERY BIG misconception. Thanks to most of those people who took over the lands, now we have a mixture of lightly-educated hicks, and a bunch of arrogant, and usually racist, rednecks. What a GREAT EXCHANGE!
We have managed to hold out, however. Many of the ancestors held out in different hiding places in the mountains, and a lot of them survived the Trail of Tears. It is true that many Cherokees served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but it is a decision that most of them made out of fear of the Southerners. Many of them, however, ended up serving in the Union Indian Brigade, which fought out in the Trans-Mississippi Theatre, coming from Oklahoma and Kansas, were most of the Natives had been exiled to from their eastern homelands. The Cherokee are a strong people, they served the nation and the settlers even as their own rights and lands were gradually being taken from them, and they deserve a lot of respect, and even tribute, in return.
With well over 700,000 mixed- and full-blooded members, the Cherokee nation is the largest tribe in the entire United States. The "motherland" that the tribe inhabited, of which many still do, is known as the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee and very western North Carolina. The white settlers and slaveowners pushed a great number of my people off their lands, of which many of us thoroughly and bitterly resent them. It was those people who made this region the South, with their new countrified, Southeast-style culture and political opinions. They also believed that the Cherokees were nothing but savages and heathens, VERY BIG misconception. Thanks to most of those people who took over the lands, now we have a mixture of lightly-educated hicks, and a bunch of arrogant, and usually racist, rednecks. What a GREAT EXCHANGE!
We have managed to hold out, however. Many of the ancestors held out in different hiding places in the mountains, and a lot of them survived the Trail of Tears. It is true that many Cherokees served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but it is a decision that most of them made out of fear of the Southerners. Many of them, however, ended up serving in the Union Indian Brigade, which fought out in the Trans-Mississippi Theatre, coming from Oklahoma and Kansas, were most of the Natives had been exiled to from their eastern homelands. The Cherokee are a strong people, they served the nation and the settlers even as their own rights and lands were gradually being taken from them, and they deserve a lot of respect, and even tribute, in return.
Long Live The Mighty Cherokee!
by Ryan October 16, 2004
Get the Cherokeemug. damn, that party last night was fuckin royal.
that benz on 19s was royal as hell.
it would be so royal if i got to go to the Beck concert.
that benz on 19s was royal as hell.
it would be so royal if i got to go to the Beck concert.
by ryan February 2, 2004
Get the Royalmug. An exclamation usually spoken when you see a really hot girl and you want to let her and the people around you know what you are looking at.
by Ryan December 24, 2004
Get the o-hey!mug. A stunna is a person, usually a male, defined by, but not limited to, the following characteristics:
Driving a car, often a Honda or other slow import, "hunched over," with the left hand at the top of the wheel and half the upper body well past the right edge of the seat.
Driving in the above described position with a visor hanging from the windshield.
Adorning the exterior of one's vehicle with useless body kits, vinyl graphics, company logos, wings, etc.
see ugly
Placing ice and neons in the interior of the car, and having a stereo system loud enough to shake a 2 block radius while being heavy enough to sink the vehicle to the bumpstops.
Wearing a hat, preferrably of "trucker" style, sideways and/or only half on the head.
see trucker hat
see von dutch
Numerous more exist, but the main have been outlined above.
Driving a car, often a Honda or other slow import, "hunched over," with the left hand at the top of the wheel and half the upper body well past the right edge of the seat.
Driving in the above described position with a visor hanging from the windshield.
Adorning the exterior of one's vehicle with useless body kits, vinyl graphics, company logos, wings, etc.
see ugly
Placing ice and neons in the interior of the car, and having a stereo system loud enough to shake a 2 block radius while being heavy enough to sink the vehicle to the bumpstops.
Wearing a hat, preferrably of "trucker" style, sideways and/or only half on the head.
see trucker hat
see von dutch
Numerous more exist, but the main have been outlined above.
by Ryan July 19, 2004
Get the stunnamug. 
A euphamism for getting high on weed or LSD. Comes from a discussion about Jimmy Hendrix. The supposition was that he must have been so high while playing that he thought he was fighting demons.
Must say "fight the demons" while playing the air guitar.
Must say "fight the demons" while playing the air guitar.
by Ryan May 6, 2004
Get the Fight the Demonsmug.