17 Facts About Chickamauga Cherokee

Chickamauga Cherokee refers to a group that separated from the greater body of the Cherokee during the American Revolutionary War.

The majority of the Cherokee people wished to make peace with the Americans near the end of 1776, following several military setbacks and American reprisals.

Five years later, the Chickamauga Cherokee moved further west and southwest into present-day Alabama, establishing five larger settlements.

Chickamauga Cherokee became known for their uncompromising enmity against United States settlers, who had pushed them out of their traditional territory.

Chickamauga Cherokee warriors raided as far as Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia.

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Under Watts's lead, the Chickamauga Cherokee continued their policy of Indian unity and hostility toward European Americans.

Chickamauga Towns and the later Lower Towns were no different from the rest of the Cherokee than were other groups of historic settlements, known as the Middle Towns, Out Towns, Lower Towns, Valley Towns, or Overhill Towns, which well established on the east and western sides of the Appalachian Mountains by the time the Europeans first encountered these people.

Chickamauga Cherokee was memorialized by the council following his death in 1792.

The leaders of these towns were the most progressive among the Chickamauga Cherokee, favoring extensive acculturation, formal education adapted from European Americans, and modern methods of farming.

The majority of the Lower Chickamauga Cherokee remained in the towns they inhabited in 1794, known as the Lower Towns, with their seat at Willstown.

Chickamauga Cherokee was assassinated by The Ridge, Alexander Saunders, and John Rogers.

Chickamauga Cherokee was succeeded on the council by The Glass, who was assistant principal chief of the nation to Black Fox.

Chickamauga Cherokee was accompanied by representatives from the Shawnee, Muscogee, Kickapoo, and Sioux peoples.

Chickamauga Cherokee did attract some support from younger warriors of the Upper Muscogee.

Chickamauga Cherokee later moved to the western North Carolina mountains, where he was executed by US forces in 1838 for violently resisting Removal.

Chickamauga Cherokee moved some leaders, until The Ridge spoke even more eloquently in rebuttal, calling instead for support of the Americans in the coming war with the British and Tecumseh's alliance.

Major Ridge led a party of 30 south, where they drove the settlers out of their homes on what the Chickamauga Cherokee considered their land, and burned all buildings to the ground, but harmed no one.