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Chattanooga
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Chatanuga Cherokees
The song that made the city famous may have been "Chattanooga Choo Choo," but its first residents were not train conductors, but rather the hunters and gatherers of the Cherokee tribes. As early as 200 BC, the Cherokee nation inhabited the area around Lookout Mountain and the Chattanooga Valley, calling it Chatanuga, or "rock rising to a point." The Creek, Choctaw and Shawnee tribes also inhabited the land, but the Cherokee people composed the overwhelming majority of the population.
The Cherokee Nation established a government of tribal laws and clan agreements, and maintained its rule for nearly 2,000 years. However, during the mid 1600s, the first European explorers began to settle in the area, bringing with them diseases such as smallpox that would eventually kill more than half of the Cherokee population. As European explorers gave way to Puritan settlers and eventually a new American nation, Chatanuga became a volatile area. The leaders of the Cherokee Nation decided that the best way to maintain peace was to assimilate themselves into the lifestyle and government scheme of the United States. However, not everyone felt this way, and the Cherokee Nation was divided.
Chief Dragging Canoe
As tensions grew between the whites and the Cherokee, one legendary war chief decided to take matters into his own hands. Chief Dragging Canoe, the fiercest warrior in the history of the Cherokee people, mustered together 1,200 warriors and traveled south to the North Georgia area known as Chickamawgee (now Chickamauga). There he formed a confederacy of like-minded Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek. For nearly two decades at the close of the 18th century, this Chickamawgee Confederacy captured and killed thousands of whites.
As Dragging Canoe's reputation grew, so did the legends surrounding him. It was widely believed this fierce warrior had supernatural powers. When he died in combat against John Sevier (who would later become Tennessee's first governor), his body was cut in half, and the two pieces were buried miles apart to prevent him from rising from the dead. His death did not put an end to the fighting, however, and the Chickamawgee Confederacy continued to wage war against the United States until the early 1800s.
The song that made the city famous may have been "Chattanooga Choo Choo," but its first residents were not train conductors, but rather the hunters and gatherers of the Cherokee tribes. As early as 200 BC, the Cherokee nation inhabited the area around Lookout Mountain and the Chattanooga Valley, calling it Chatanuga, or "rock rising to a point." The Creek, Choctaw and Shawnee tribes also inhabited the land, but the Cherokee people composed the overwhelming majority of the population.
The Cherokee Nation established a government of tribal laws and clan agreements, and maintained its rule for nearly 2,000 years. However, during the mid 1600s, the first European explorers began to settle in the area, bringing with them diseases such as smallpox that would eventually kill more than half of the Cherokee population. As European explorers gave way to Puritan settlers and eventually a new American nation, Chatanuga became a volatile area. The leaders of the Cherokee Nation decided that the best way to maintain peace was to assimilate themselves into the lifestyle and government scheme of the United States. However, not everyone felt this way, and the Cherokee Nation was divided.
Chief Dragging Canoe
As tensions grew between the whites and the Cherokee, one legendary war chief decided to take matters into his own hands. Chief Dragging Canoe, the fiercest warrior in the history of the Cherokee people, mustered together 1,200 warriors and traveled south to the North Georgia area known as Chickamawgee (now Chickamauga). There he formed a confederacy of like-minded Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek. For nearly two decades at the close of the 18th century, this Chickamawgee Confederacy captured and killed thousands of whites.
As Dragging Canoe's reputation grew, so did the legends surrounding him. It was widely believed this fierce warrior had supernatural powers. When he died in combat against John Sevier (who would later become Tennessee's first governor), his body was cut in half, and the two pieces were buried miles apart to prevent him from rising from the dead. His death did not put an end to the fighting, however, and the Chickamawgee Confederacy continued to wage war against the United States until the early 1800s.
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