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Native Americans in North Georgia
Known as Moundbuilders, these early Americans used waterways to create an advanced civilization from northeast Georgia to New Mexico, Wisconsin to New Orleans.Creek Indian HistoryAfter losing control of the northern third of the state to the Cherokee, this Native American Confederation lost the rest of it's land to white Georgians.CreekSociety and culture of the Creek Indians, based on the letters of Benjamin Hawkins.CherokeeA brief overview of the Cherokee culture and society in the early 19th CenturyHistory of the Cherokee, Part IFrom the initial contact with whites to the defeat of the Lower Towns in 1794History of the Cherokee, Part IIFrom George Washington ordering the introduction of technology in an attempt to "civilize" the Cherokee to the "Revolt of the Young Chiefs."History of the Cherokee, Part IIIRising Tides covers the growing nationalism amongst the Cherokee, from the Creek War to the final cession of land in 1819 and the Creek Path conspiracy.History of the Cherokee, Part IVRevolution and Rebellion includes the formation of the government, including creation of a bi-cameral legislature, through Whitepath's Rebellion, an anti-nationalistic uprising.The Talking LeavesDevelopment of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoyah.Cherokee PhoenixStory of the first American Indian newspaper.Land cessions of Native Americans in GeorgiaFrom the first Creek cession in 1733 to the invasion of the Cherokee Nation by the state of Georgia and the federal government.These forts, built to house the Cherokee prior to their removal on the Trail of Tears, saw nearly one-third of the deaths attributed to the forced marchTrail of TearsIn one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, Georgians steal the Cherokee Nation.Chieftains TrailHighlights many of the Native American sites mentioned in the above articles.New Echota State ParkWalk the streets of the first Capital of the Cherokee Nation. Visit the restored Vann's Tavern and Samuel Worcester's house.Fort Mountain State ParkOn top of a mountain at the western edge of the Southern Appalachian mountains is a wall that has puzzled generations of people...Chief Vann HouseJames Vann was a vile, intemperate, mixed-blood Cherokee who built the finest house in all of North Georgia shortly after start of the 19th CenturyEtowah Indian MoundsNear Cartersville, these mounds were home to a Native American civilization that surpassed the Europeans in every way except one--technologyJohn RossThe only elected leader of the Cherokee in North Georgia.Major RidgeLed the Cherokee on the path to acculturation, only to betray them by signing the Treaty of New Echota in 1835.SequoyahInvented the Cherokee alphabetBenjamin HawkinsCreek "Indian Agent," born in North Carolina and educated at Princeton, this U.S. Senator took a Creek woman as his wife. His writings provide some of the earliest descriptions of Creek life.Samuel Austin WorcesterA white minister who lived and worked with Cherokee, Worcester was one of the defendants in the Supreme Court case that recognized the Cherokee Nation as sovereignRecommended readingBooks of interest on the Cherokee experience in the North Georgia mountains. Recommended by About North Georgia in association with Amazon.comReturn to Index
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