Cherokee Indians

by Anderson, Jean B. By Elizabeth A. Fenn, Peter H. Wood, Harry L. Watson, Thomas H. Clayton, Sydney Nathans, Thomas C. Parramore, and Jean B. Anderson; Maps by Mark Anderson Moore. Edited by Joe A. Mobley. [...] (from The Way We Lived in North Carolina, NC Office of Archives and History and UNC Press.)

by Dease, Jared. Old Tassel (Tossel, Tassell) was a Cherokee diplomat, political leader, and treaty negotiator. He served the Cherokee nations during the French and Indian War, Cherokee Wars, and the American [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Currie, Jefferson. "Shhhhhhhh!" Legend has it that Coharie Indian mothers would make that sound when outsiders would approach their village, hoping to quiet their children until the strangers passed. The Coharie were [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Nathans, Sydney. American Indians in Antebellum NC Originally published as "A Class All Their Own: American Indians in Antebellum North Carolina" by Sydney Nathans Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by La Vere, David. North Carolina’s American Indians in World War II by Dr. David La Vere/Our State Books Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Fall 2005. Tar Heel Junior Historian [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Corkran, D. H. Attakullakulla, a Cherokee diplomat, warrior, and statesman—known to the English as The Little Carpenter, because his name meant "wood leaning up" and therefore suggested house-building—became one of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Smythe, Andrea. Bauer, Rachael Blythe by Andrea Smythe, September 2023 May 15, 1870 – January 9, 1897 See also: Bauer, Adolphus Gustavus Rachael Blythe Bauer, stenographer and typist,  was a [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Morton, Hugh M. Cherokee basket weavers A Cherokee man and woman make baskets at Oconaluftee Indian Village. Jim Morton (photographer's son) stands between them watching them [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Williams, Wiley J. The Cherokee Botanical Garden, first opened to the public in May 1953, adjoins Oconaluftee Indian Village on the Cherokee Indian Reservation (Qualla Boundary) in western North Carolina. The garden is [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y., Bell, John L., Jr. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i:Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L., Wetmore, Ruth Y. Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Frey, Ben. Cherokee is very different from European lanugages. Many European languages—French, Spanish, and Italian, for example—relate in some way to each other, Cherokee has no basic relationship to these [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Morrow, Megan. Cockrill, Ann(e) Gower Robertson Johns(t)on by Megan Morrow, SLNC Government and Heritage Library, August 2023 February 10, 1757-October 13, 1821 Ann(e) Gower Robertson Johns(t)on Cockrill [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Corkran, D. H. Connecorte (Old Hop), the First Man or Ulustuli of Overhill Chota and therefore of the Cherokee nation, was sometimes referred to as the "Fire King" but was called "Old Hop" by the traders because of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L. The Battle of Deep Creek, also called the Battle of Quallatown, was a Civil War engagement that occurred on February 2, 1864. Union troops from the 14th Illinois Cavalry under Major Francis M. [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Porter, Matthew C. The English language in North Carolina has been growing and evolving since 1584, when the first English explorers to visit North America came to the Outer Banks, making it the first place in the New [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L. The Battle of Etchoe took place during the Cherokee War of 1760-61 between the Cherokee and the English. That war, a subconflict within the French and Indian War, began when whites murdered a number [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Agan, Kelly. Exploring North Carolina: American Indian History This page gathers resources in NCpedia that [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Branch, Paul, Jr., Marshall, R. Jackson, III. French and Indian War (1754-63) grew out of competition between Great Britain and France for land in North America. As part of the larger Seven Years War in Europe, colonists and Indians were caught [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Originally published in Courageous Care: African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia 1900-1965. Republished with permission. For personal educational use and not for further distribution. [...] (from Appalachian State University.)

by . This is an image of the Tryon Mountain Historical Highway Marker located in Polk County, N.C.  Tryon Mountain was a landmark on the boundary between the Cherokee lands and the North Carolina [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Davis, Lenwood. Many people are unaware of the numerous inventions and scientific breakthroughs that have happened in North Carolina. They probably have heard of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first sustained, [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Case, Steven. Andrew Jackson by State Library of North Carolina, edited by Steven Case, 2009; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, May 2023 March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845. Without union our [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Anderson, William L. Judaculla Rock, associated with the Cherokee legend of Tsu'kalu, is a large soapstone rock covered with petroglyphs located on Caney Fork Creek off N.C. 107 in Jackson County. According to legend, [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by McKinney, Gordon B. Junaluska, Cherokee warrior and hero of Andrew Jackson's victory over the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend in 1814, was born near the head of the Little Tennessee River in either Macon County, N.C., or Rabun [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Map of Rutherford's Expedition, 1776 Rutherford Expedition, 1776 brochure produced by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History and the Eastern Band of Cherokee [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Anderson, William L. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian, established in 1948, was originally housed in a log building on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The initial collection of the museum [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Claggett, Stephen R. Native American Settlement of North Carolina by Stephen R. Claggett; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, July 2023 Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Holland, Ron. On 16 Aug. 1950 the board of trustees of the Cherokee Historical Association in Cherokee-sponsor of the popular outdoor drama Unto These Hills-approved the idea of constructing a replica of an [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Corkran, D. H. Osteneco (Judd's Friend), the second warrior of the Overhill Cherokee and a member of the Wolf Clan, was known to the colonials as Judd's Friend (sometimes Judge's Friend) because early in his career [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Hill, Michael. The Qualla Boundary is the official name for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee's home in western North Carolina. These 57,000 acres were officially surveyed and the boundaries of The [...] (from Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Hall, Lisa Coston. When most people look at a lump of clay or a piece of walnut, they see just that—a simple, unmoving object. Joel Queen, though, looks at such raw material and sees something waiting to be turned into [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Tetterton, Beverly. Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks or onions found in eastern North America. They grow wild high in the Great Smoky Mountains. Related to the ramson, a kind of garlic with broad leaves, the ramp [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. John Ross, friend and leader of the Cherokee Indians, was born in Cherokee country near Lookout Mountain in an area that was relinquished by North Carolina to the federal government in the same year. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Morton, Hugh M. Saunooke, Chief of the Cherokees This is a portrait photograph of Osley Bird Saunooke, Chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians from [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Folmsbee, Stanley J. Sequoyah by Stanley J. Folmsbee; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, September 2023 1770?-August 1843 Sequoyah was a Cherokee trader, silversmith, blacksmith, and inventor of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Holland, Ron. Settlement of the Mountains, 1775-1838 "North Carolina's Final Frontier" Related Entries: Cherokee Indians; Asheville; Regions by Ron Holland Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Cecelski, David S. One night last summer, Terry Shinn visited my family's campsite next to the French Broad River, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The tall, soft-spoken stranger lived just up a short path, in the faded [...] (from Listening to History, News and Observer.)

by Sloan-Farmer, Maryann. Jacob Siler, western North Carolina pioneer, state legislator, and Cherokee Indian agent, was born in South Carolina's Pendleton district, of German and Irish ancestry. His grandfather, Plikard [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Perdue, Theda. Nimrod Jarrett Smith, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians from 1880 to 1891, was born near Murphy. His mother was Cherokee and his father was a white man who acted as translator [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wegner, Ansley Herring. Nimrod Jarrett Smith 1837 - 1893 by Ansley Wegner Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and [...] (from Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Anderson, William L., Battle, Charles. Stickball by William L. Anderson, 2006 Additional research provided by Charles Battle. See also: Cherokee Indians Stickball, a Native American game similar to lacrosse and called [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Stoga, John Astooga by William S. Powell, 1994 d. 15 Sept. 1862 John Astooga Stoga, popular Cherokee [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Swimmer by William S. Powell ca. 1835–March 1899 Swimmer, Cherokee traditionalist and storyteller, was born in the Cherokee country of southwestern North Carolina. His Cherokee name, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anderson, William L. Thomas's Legion was formed during the Civil War by William Holland Thomas, the only white man ever to become chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Believing that North Carolinians would not [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by McKinney, Gordon B. William Holland Thomas, white chief of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, legislator, and Confederate officer, was born in rural Haywood County shortly after the death of his father, Richard [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Finger, John R. Tsali (Charley), a full-blooded Cherokee farmer, resided with his family near the mouth of the Nantahala River in western North Carolina at the time of the 1835 Cherokee census. Apparently of middle [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Trotman, Mary Nelle. Usteneka, Cherokee leader, is referred to in some sources as Ostenaco, Autositty, Ustonekka, Outacite, Outacity, and Judd's Friend. There seems to be no substantial agreement among sources as to [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Pollitt, Phoebe Ann. Excerpted from "North Carolina Nursing History" and "Courageous Care: African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia 1900-1965." Republished with permission. For personal educational use and not [...] (from Appalachian State University.)

by Wilson, Emily Herring. Nancy Ward “War Woman” of the Cherokee by Emily Herring Wilson, Tar Heel Junior Historian, Spring 1994; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, May 2023 Reprinted with permission [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Duncan, Barbara Reimensnyder. A powerful cry echoes from the mountains: “Whoooooo hooo!” A group of Cherokee men answers even louder: “Whoooooo hooo!” The cry from the mountains echoes back. Seven men walk out, covered in red [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Cockrell, David L. The Watauga Settlement was the first community established in North Carolina's western frontier and holds the distinction of being perhaps the first American settlement west of the Appalachian [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Perdue, Theda. Yonaguska (or Drowning Bear), was head chief of the Cherokee middle towns in the crucial years from 1800 until his death. The exact date and place of his birth are unknown, but Charles Lanman, who [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)