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    The CherokeeAmerican wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier...
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    The Cherokee in the American Civil War were active in the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. In the east, Confederate Cherokees led by William Holland...
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    the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion. The war was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee bands...
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    Cherokee syllabics. The Cherokee (/ˈtʃɛrəkiː, ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː/; Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, romanized: Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ, romanized: Tsalagi)...
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    majority of Cherokee peoples. At the end of the CherokeeAmerican wars (1794), Little Turkey was recognized as "Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation" by...
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    The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires...
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    ranking Native American in the US military Doublehead, Taltsuska (d. 1807), war leader during the CherokeeAmerican wars, led the "Lower Cherokee", signed land...
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  • This is a list of wars and rebellions involving the United States of America. Currently, there are 108 wars on this list, 4 of which are ongoing.   USA...
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  • fellow leaders that the end of the wars was inevitable. The Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse, ending the CherokeeAmerican wars, was signed on November 7, 1794...
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    Trail of Tears, the Cherokee Nation existed in Indian Territory. After the American Civil War, the United States promised the Cherokee Nation "a permanent...
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    probably burned during the CherokeeAmerican wars. Tuskegee is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Sequoyah (Cherokee, c.1770-1843), a craftsman and...
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  • The American Indian Wars were numerous armed conflicts fought by governments and colonists of European descent, and later by the United States federal...
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  • of there – in order to continue fighting (see CherokeeAmerican wars). In time, these Chickamauga Cherokee comprised a majority of the nation, due to both...
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  • was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the CherokeeAmerican wars. Watts became particularly active in the fighting...
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    treaty ending the CherokeeAmerican wars. Over the next ten years, the U.S. made several other treaties with the Cherokee, persuading Cherokee leaders to cede...
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  • a Cherokee leader during the CherokeeAmerican wars. He was a signatory of the Holston Treaty, and later became a Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation...
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  • Cherokee War of 1776, or Second Cherokee War CherokeeAmerican wars of 1776-1794 Cherokee removal (1836-39), or "Trail of Tears" Texan Cherokee War (1838-39)...
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    Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. After Cherokee Principal Chief John Ross signed a treaty of alliance with...
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  • Watts Bowles (Cherokee: Di'wali) (ca. 1756 – July 16, 1839) was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee during the CherokeeAmerican wars, served as...
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  • Native territories, as in the Seminole Wars in Florida. After the American Civil War, some African Americans became (or continued as) members of the...
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    Major Ridge (category Cherokee slave owners)
    was a Cherokee leader, a member of the tribal council, and a lawmaker. As a warrior, he fought in the CherokeeAmerican wars against American frontiersmen...
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    Dunmore's war in 1774, and during the Revolution, it became the Cherokee-American Wars that lasted until after statehood. A series of county divisions...
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    French involvement in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783 began in 1776 when the Kingdom of France secretly shipped supplies to the Continental...
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    events as the relocation to Indian Territory and the American Civil War. Ross was the son of a Cherokee mother and a Scottish father. His mother and maternal...
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  • Dragging Canoe (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    agents of France and Spain. The Cherokee American Wars lasted more than a decade after the end of the American Revolutionary War. During that time, Dragging...
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    Native American tribes began to adopt a slavery system similar to that of the American colonists, buying African American slaves, especially the Cherokee, Choctaw...
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  • Chickamauga Cherokee were a Native American group that separated from the greater body of the Cherokee during the American Revolutionary War and up to the...
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    They would launch raids with roughly 200 warriors, as seen in the CherokeeAmerican wars; they could not mobilize enough forces to invade settler areas without...
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    Kentucky River to reach the bluegrass heartland of Kentucky. While the Cherokee did not settle in Kentucky, they hunted there. They relinquished their...
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    The Cherokee clans (Cherokee syllabary:ᏣᎳᎩ ᏓᏂᎳᏍᏓᏢᎢ) are traditional social organizations of Cherokee society. The Cherokee society was historically a matrilineal...
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