26 Facts About Cherokee history

1.

Cherokee history is the written and oral lore, traditions, and historical record maintained by the living Cherokee people and their ancestors.

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2.

Cherokee history are members of the Iroquoian language-family of North American indigenous peoples, and are believed to have migrated in ancient times from the Great Lakes area, where most of such language families were located.

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3.

Artifacts from historic Cherokee history towns featured iconography from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

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4.

Cherokee history are believed to have settled more deeply into Georgia and Alabama in the late eighteenth century.

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5.

Cherokee history myth recorded in the late 18th century says that a "Moon-eyed people" had lived in the Cherokee history regions before they arrived.

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6.

Cherokee history identify their ancient settlement of Kituwa on the Tuckasegee River, formerly next to and now part of Qualla Boundary, as the original Cherokee history settlement in the Southeast.

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7.

Cherokee history was seeking an overland route to Mexican silver mines; the Spanish mistakenly thought the Appalachians were connected to a range in Mexico.

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8.

In 1650 the Cherokee history were estimated to have a population of 22,500 persons, living primarily in independent towns and smaller villages along the river valleys of the South Appalachian Mountains in parts of present-day eastern Tennessee, the western parts of what are now defined as the states of North Carolina and South Carolina, and northeastern Georgia.

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9.

The Cherokee history were allied with the English and the Yamasee, and Catawba in late 1712 and early 1713, against the Tuscarora in the Second Tuscarora War.

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10.

Seven prominent Cherokee history, including Attakullakulla, traveled with Cuming back to London, England.

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11.

The Cherokee history delegation signed the Treaty of Whitehall with the British.

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12.

Political power among the Cherokee history remained decentralized, with towns acting autonomously.

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13.

In 1735 the Cherokee history were estimated to have sixty-four towns and villages and 6000 fighting men.

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14.

In 1738 and 1739 smallpox epidemics broke out among the Cherokee history, who had no natural immunity to the new infectious disease.

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15.

Many other —possibly hundreds —of Cherokee history survivors committed suicide, due to the disfigurement of their skin from the disease.

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16.

In 1756 the Cherokee history fought alongside the British in the French and Indian War; however, serious misunderstandings between the two allies arose quickly, resulting in the 1760 Anglo-Cherokee history War.

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17.

Some Shawnee, Lenape, Mingo, and Cherokee history attacked a scouting and foraging party that included Boone's son.

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18.

In 1776, allied with the Shawnee and led by Cornstalk, Cherokee history attacked settlers in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, the Washington District and North Carolina in the Second Cherokee history War.

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19.

Cherokee history is one of the few individuals from a pre-literate society to create an independent and effective writing system.

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20.

The Treaty Party, believing that the Cherokee history could get the best deal from the US by signing a treaty and negotiating terms, represented the people by signing the Treaty of New Echota.

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21.

President Andrew Jackson said removal policy was an effort to prevent the Cherokee history from facing extinction, which he said was the fate of "the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware".

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22.

In June 1830, a delegation of Cherokee led by Chief Ross brought their grievances about tribal sovereignty over state government to the US Supreme Court in the Cherokee Nation v Georgia case.

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23.

The harsh treatment the Cherokee history received at the hands of white settlers caused some to enroll to emigrate west.

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24.

Over 400 other Cherokee history either hid from Federal troops in the remote Snowbird Mountains, under the leadership of Tsali, or negotiated directly with the state government to stay locally.

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25.

An additional 400 Cherokee history stayed on reserves in Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia, and Northeast Alabama, as citizens of their respective states.

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26.

Those Cherokee history aided by William Thomas in North Carolina became the Thomas Legion of Cherokee history Indians and Highlanders, fighting for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

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