- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Cherokee Indians
- Creator:
- Boulware, Tyler
- Date of Original:
- 2009-01-20
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Georgia--History
Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
Indians of North America--Georgia
Cherokee Indians--Relocation
Indian Removal, 1813-1903 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Cherokee Indians in Georgia. The Cherokees, one of the most populous Indian societies in the Southeast during the eighteenth century, played a key role in Georgia's early history. They were close allies of the British for much of the eighteenth century. During the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and American Revolution (1775-83), a breakdown in relations with the British and then the Americans led to repeated invasions of the Cherokee homeland. The post-revolutionary era witnessed remarkable Cherokee efforts to cope with land encroachments and territorial loss, and to succeed at nation-building. Increased expansion by the United States in the nineteenth century ultimately resulted in the forced removal of most Cherokee peoples to a region west of the Mississippi River.
GSE identifier: SS8H1, SS8H4, SS2H2, SS2H1 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cherokee-indians/
- Language:
- eng
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