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© 1996 Ralph JenkinsStill with respect to all, and still with a desire not to argue, but to clarify some of the issues involved in defining Cherokee identity, I offer this followup on some technical aspects of the various rolls of the Eastern Cherokee. From John R. Finger, The Eastern Band Of Cherokees 1819-1900, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1984: Finger describes the Mullay Roll, taken to fulfill the provisions of the Indian Appropriations Act of 1848, as “the most important of the many…

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The Virginians treated with Ohio Indians at Logstown and got confirmation from the Mingos of the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744. The Delaware and Iroquois Indians acknowledge the Virginia colony’s claim to territory south of the Ohio River. The English were allowed to form settlements on the south and east side of the Ohio. The Iroquois signed the Logstown Treaty confirming their land cessions in 1744 and gave the British permission to build a blockhouse at the forks of the…

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Georgia Treaties, 1733-1763, Vol. XI John T. Juricek Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789 Alden T. Faughan (gen. ed.), Frederick Md.: University Publications of America, 1989. [Pages 15-17] Articles of Friendship and Commerce between the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America and the Chief Men of the nation of the Lower Creeks. First. The Trustees bearing in their Hearts great Love and Friendship to you the said Head men of the Lower Creek Nation do…

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“Pioneers of the Old Southwest”1,  Chapter III,  The Trader, (Excerpt) “The trader was the first pathfinder.2 His caravans began the change of purpose that that was to come to be the Indian warrior’s route, turning it slowly into the beaten track of communication and commerce. The settlers, the rangers, the surveyors, went westward over the trails which he had blazed for them tears before. Their enduring works are commemorated in the cities and farms which today lie along every ancient border…

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The Yamasee was a tribe of Muskhogean stock, residing formerly near the Savannah River and in Florida. The Spanish missionaries under Fray Antonio Sedeño began to labor among them about 1570, and little trouble arose until a rebellion of the Yamasee was provoked by an attempt of the Spanish civil authorities to send some of them to the West Indies and into slavery. Many of the Indians fled to English territory in South Carolina and settled there.In Carolina on the…

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During the late 1600s into the early 1700s, English traders from the Virginia and Carolina colonies conducted a thriving business of buying, branding, and selling young Indian slaves. One source was to raid the Catholic Missions that that had been established to Christianize the Indians on the Spanish Florida-Georgia frontier. We see Christian neophytes being kidnapped, and later sold. Many Indian Nations were in the slave selling business, including the Cherokee and the Creek. Some claim English traders in the…

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The Shawnee (Shawano, Shawanese, Shawanoe, etc.) originally inhabited southern Ohio, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. The Shawnee were driven from this area by the Iroquois League sometime in the 1660s. They settled in South Carolina, Tennessee’s Cumberland River Basin, eastern Pennsylvania, and southern Illinois.After Shawnee raids on the Cherokee, the Cherokee entered into an alliance with the Chickasaw about 1714, and together, they drove the Shawnee from the Tennessee and Cumberland River basins in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Shawnee had…

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“History does not make clear the policy of the North Carolina colony in dealing with the Indians in regards to their lands; it does not appear that any official policy was adopted until the near the close of its colonial existence . . . “. . . the relations existing between the settlers and natives were friendly and peaceful up to the year 1711 . . . After the conquest of the Tuskarora there was no other tribe, except the…

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ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN CHARLES II AND SEVERAL INDIAN KINGS AND QUEENS CONCLUDED THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1677.   SYNOPSIS. The treaty consists of 21 articles, in which the Indians acknowledge subjection to the British Crown and the British guarantee them protection. They provide that no English settlement shall be made nearer than three miles of any Indian town and that the Indians shall be “secured and defended in their persons, goods and properties against all hurts and injuries of…

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The King’s charter for the Proprietorship of Carolina in effect gave Carolina (later North Carolina) the land that was to become Tennessee. The Charter specified Carolina’s boundary as:The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 145. Government Printing Office, 1953; pp. 215-229. “. . . All that Province, Territory, or Tract of ground, situate, lying, and being within our Dominions of America aforesaid, extending North and Eastward as far as the…

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