Chickamauga Cherokee Timeline
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1738, Dragging Canoe, Chief of what was left of Chickamauga Cherokee, son of Peace Chief Little Carpenter (Attakullakulla), opposed his father and Henderson’s Transylvania Treaty
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1831 through 1838, the Choctaw, Seminoles Creek, Chickasaw and lastly the Cherokee in 1838, were removed from their homelands. By 1838, 57,000 Native Americans from the southeastern states were removed from their homelands.
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1840 to 1912, the State of Missouri enacted laws prohibiting Indians from being in the State with threat of prison or death. (Missouri Revised Statute 1889, Vol II, Chapter 83, Sec 5477, 5482 – copy enclosed) In Arkansas, if Cherokee language was spoken, the landman would take away their land. Chickamauga's were forced to hide their identity, but retained our language and traditions underground.
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1924, Indian Citizenship Act also known as the Snyder Act, granted full U.S. citizenship to America's indigenous peoples, called "Indians" in this Act. (The Fourteenth Amendment already defined citizens as any person born in the U.S., but only if "subject to the jurisdiction thereof"; this latter clause excluded anyone who already had citizenship in a foreign power such as a tribal nation.) The act was signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924. It was enacted partially in recognition of the thousands of Indians who served in the armed forces during World War I.
We have had a continual history of elected Chiefs, cultural events and honored traditions despite years of oppression.
The Chickamauga Cherokee Today
We have had a continual history of elected Chiefs, cultural events and honored traditions despite years of oppression.
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Fought in World War I World War II, Korean Conflict, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
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Professionals include: consultants, military, law enforcement, lawyers, pastors, doctors, educators, farmers and ranchers.