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The Cherokee towns and related settlements in this area included Comastee, Cotocanahuy, Euforsee, Little Telliquo, Nayowee, Nuckasee, Steecoy, and Watoge. [1] Since the late 20th century, the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and partners have reacquired some of these former town sites in their homeland for preservation.
Cherokee towns in North Carolina (8 P) O. Cherokee towns in Oklahoma (1 C, 31 P) T. Cherokee towns in Tennessee (15 P) Pages in category "Cherokee towns"
Cherokee culture shows association with Pisgah phase archeological sites, which were part of the Southern Appalachian Mississippian culture in this region. Artifacts from historic Cherokee towns also featured iconography from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. This is believed likely to have been due to Cherokee assimilation of regional ...
John R. Swanton enumerates 201 Cherokee villages and towns. [73] The Cherokee had 6,000 warriors (and therefore around 30,000 people) in years 1730–35 according to J. Adair. In 1738 they also had 6,000 warriors, but down to 5,000 in 1740 (according to Ga. Hist. Coll., II).
Chilhowee on Henry Timberlake's 1762 Draught of the Cherokee Country. Chilhowee (Cherokee: ᏧᎷᎾᎢ, romanized: Tsulunawe) was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in present-day Blount and Monroe counties in Tennessee, in what were the Southeastern Woodlands.
Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Fort Armstrong and Turkeytown are located in the upper right. [1]Turkeytown (Cherokee: "Gun'-di'ga-duhun'yi"), sometimes called "Turkey's Town", was a small Cherokee village that once stretched for approximately 25 miles along both banks of the Coosa River, and became the largest of the contemporary Cherokee towns.
Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country." Timberlake's "Tennessee River" is now known as the Little Tennessee River. North is to the left. Overhill Cherokee was the term for the Cherokee people located in their historic settlements in what is now the U.S. state of Tennessee in the Southeastern United States, on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.
This category is for towns founded by Cherokee people in Oklahoma. It includes cities founded by a prominent Cherokee person or settled by Cherokee people of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) prior to Oklahoma statehood.