Chickamauga Cherokee
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The Chickamauga Cherokee are a Native American group who separated from the Cherokee in March 1775 to the early 1800s, when elderly chiefs sold more than 22 million square acres of their hunting groun
The original Chickamauga towns of Dragging Canoe's followers, with Hiwassee towns and towns on the Tellico
The primary area of operations during the Chickamauga Wars, with the war's more prominent settlements; the postwar Lower Towns are in the lower left quarter.
The Ridge (Ganundalegi), formerly known as Pathkiller (Nunnehidihi), in an illustration from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
The historic Cherokee settlements were Cherokee settlements established in Southeastern North America up to the removals of the early 19th century. Several settlements had existed prior to and were in
Chickamauga Cherokee
…later, establishing five larger settlements. They were then more commonly known as the Lower Cherokee, a term closely associated with the people of the five lower towns. Dragging Canoe, the first Chicamauga chief, separated from the Upper Cherokee and accused the elderly chiefs of endangering the survival of their…
Overhill towns of the Cherokee
A Draught of the Cherokee Country, Henry Timberlake (1762) Overhill Towns