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
Overhill towns of the Cherokee
A Draught of the Cherokee Country, Henry Timberlake (1762) Overhill Towns
Post-Revolution Cherokee towns
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
Historic Cherokee settlements
…they settled many additional locations throughout the southeastern United States, mostly driven by events of the ongoing Cherokee–American wars. This Chickamauga faction moved further downstream on the Tennessee River system, establishing 11 new towns well away from the American frontier. Following further conflicts…
The original Chickamauga towns of Dragging Canoe's followers, with Hiwassee towns and towns on the Tellico
The Ridge (Ganundalegi), formerly known as Pathkiller (Nunnehidihi), in an illustration from History of the Indian Tribes of North America