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Anthropologists and historians have two main theories of Cherokee origins. One is that the Cherokee, an Iroquoian-speaking people, are relative latecomers to Southern [[Appalachia]], who may have migrated in late prehistoric times from northern areas around the Great Lakes. This has been the traditional territory of the ''[[Haudenosaunee]]'' nations and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples. Another theory is that the Cherokee had been in the Southeast for thousandssands of years and that proto-Iroquoian developed here. Other Iroquoian-speaking tribes in the Southeast have been the [[Tuscarora people]] of the Carolinas, and the [[Meherrin]] and [[Nottaway]] of Virginia.