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  2. Historic Cherokee settlements - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Nation's five regional councils of 1794 comprised 1) the Overhill Towns; 2) the Hill Towns; 3) the traditional Valley Towns; 4) the new Upper Towns (these were the former Lower Towns of southern North Carolina, western South Carolina, and northeastern Georgia); and 5) the new Lower Towns (newly occupied settlements located in north ...

  3. Cherokee County, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    An 1822 map of Cherokee lands in Georgia. Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time. [4]

  4. Cherokee removal - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee removal (May 25, 1838 – 1839), part of the Indian removal, refers to the forced displacement of an estimated 15,500 Cherokees and 1,500 African-American slaves from the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to the West according to the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. [1]

  5. List of Indian reservations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the ... Cherokee: North Carolina 9,018 81.69 (211.58) 0.018 (0.047) ...

  6. Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee Nation consisted of the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ —pronounced Tsalagi or Cha-la-gee) people of the Qualla Boundary and the southeastern United States; [3] those who relocated voluntarily from the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (circa 1820 —known as the "Old Settlers"); those who were forced by the Federal ...

  7. New Echota - Wikipedia

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    The United States urged the Cherokee to remove to Indian Territory, offering lands in exchange for their lands in Georgia. On December 29, 1835, a small group of Cherokee (100–500 Cherokee known as Ridgeites or the Treaty Party, who represented a minority of Cherokee) signed the Treaty of New Echota in the home of Elias Boudinot.

  8. Cherokee history - Wikipedia

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    Some Cherokee in the western area of North Carolina were able to evade removal, and they became the East Band of Cherokee Indians. William Holland Thomas , a white storeowner and state legislator from Jackson County, North Carolina , helped more than 600 Cherokee from Qualla Town to obtain North Carolina citizenship.

  9. Coosa chiefdom - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Paramount Chiefdom/Kingdom of Coosa in March 1538 (right before the De Soto expedition), along with its internal chiefdoms and neighboring states. [ original research? The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia , in the United States . [ 1 ]