Cherokee Indian Historical Events 1730-1838
1730 Seven young Cherokees went to England to meet King George II.
They were escorted by Sir Alexander Cuming. While on their visit to meet King
they signed "Articles of Friendship and Commerce with Representatives
of the British Crown." One of the young men was Oukanaekah, later
named Attakullaculla or the Little Carpenter.
1756 A war chief by name of Ostenaco, joined the English
in a Campaign againist the French-Allied Shawneeduring the Seven Year
War. BEST known as "The French and Indian War."During the battle
the BRITISH TROOPS abandonned his warriors and they lost all their provisions
when crossed a swollen river.In order to regain new provisions Ostenaco and
his warriors confiscated horses from the ungrateful Virginians who enturn
killed 24 of his warriors.
In 1762, The Cherokees captured Fort Loundon. What is now
present day Venore, Tennessee. Also in 1792 Lt. Henry Timberlake
and William Shorey an interpreter took Ostenaco, Stalking Turkey , and
Pouting Pigeon to London, England to visit, King George III.
On 21st February 1828 at New Echota, Georgia. (Which is near present day Calhoun, Georgia.) , the first Cherokee National Newspaper sent out
it first issue...It was written in both Cherokee and English. The paper
became very popular all over the United States and Europe. Even though the paper was a great success in May 1834
the Cherokee National Newspaper sent out it's last publication.
Tahchee or "Dutch" was a Western Cherokee chief who refused to move
to Arkansas Indian Territory. He took his tribe to East Texas. His peace
and his way of life were broken when the Repulic of Texas Army defeated Tahchee in a
bloody battle forcing him to move to the Arkansas Indian Territory in 1840.
John Ross was Chief of the Eastern Cherokees and later in life
he was Chief of the combined Nations in the Arkansas Indian Territory from 1838until his death in 1866.. During
the Removal of the Cherokee Indians out of the Smoky Mountain. Chief Ross lost his
life partner to pneumonia after giving her blanket to a sick child.
( Kah-nung-da-tla-geh ), "the man who walks the mountain top!,
was know as "The Ridge" and later Major Ridge, for his participation in the
Creek War 1813-1814. He was the leader of the Ridge or Treaty Party. His
brother, Oo-wa-tie, "the Ancient one", was the father of Stand Watie. He served as head
of the Lighthorse Guard ( the Cherokee Police ), member of the National
Committee, and speaker of the National Council. The valuation of his
property at the time of the Removal wast showed him to be the 3rd richest
man in the the Cherokee Nation. He was assasinated in 1839 for signing
the Treaty of New Echota for removal of the Cherokees to the West.
John Ridge was the son of the The Ridge. He was assasinated in 1839 for
signing the Treaty of New Echota.
The forced removal of the Cherokee in 1838-39 from their homelands in the east to
Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)is known as the "The Trail of Tears" or
"The Trail Where They Cried". Of the 16,000 Cherokees who were
herded into stockades and marched west by U.S. Troops, about 4,000 died
of desease, exposure, ot fatigue. A U.S. soldier, John Burnett,
recalled in later years, " I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes,
and driven by bayonet into Stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain
on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred
and forty-five wagons and started toward the west".
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