Concise timeline of the Cherokee in Georgia, from 1450 until 1838.

A brief overview of the Cherokee culture and society in the early 19th Century

From the initial contact with whites to the defeat of the Lower Towns in 1794

From George Washington ordering the introduction of technology in an attempt to "civilize" the Cherokee to the "Revolt of the Young Chiefs."

Tecumseh and the Creek Redsticks to the early nationalist government and the Creek Path conspiracy.

The Cherokee complete the formation of a national government, with a bicameral legislature and a Supreme Court. In 1827 they create a strong, central leader, a position held by John Ross until his death in 1866.

The fierce Chickamauga Cherokee in pitted combat with future Tennessee governor John Sevier.

Sequoyah's Talking Leaves make the Cherokee Nation literate almost overnight.

First newspaper of the Cherokee Nation had an interesting life, and contributed to today's New Echota in its death.

From the first Creek cession in 1733 to the invasion of the Cherokee Nation by the state of Georgia and the federal government.

Before The Trail of Tears, the Cherokee were housed in these "forts" with little sanitation or food. More than one-third of the 4,000 deaths attributed to The Trail of Tears occured in these forts.

In one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, Georgians steal the Cherokee Nation.

Highlights many of the Native American sites mentioned in the above articles.

Walk the streets of the first Capital of the Cherokee Nation. Visit the restored Vann's Tavern and Steven Worcester's house.

James Vann was a vile, intemperate, mixed-blood Cherokee who built the finest house in the Cherokee Nation shortly after start of the 19th Century

The only elected leader of the Cherokee in North Georgia.

Lead the Cherokee on the path to acculturation, only to betray them by signing the Treaty of New Echota in 1835.

Invented the Cherokee alphabet

A white minister who lived and worked with Cherokee, Worcester was one of the defendents in the Supreme Court case that recognized the Cherokee Nation as soveriegn

Books of interest on the Cherokee experience in the North Georgia mountains. Recommended by About North Georgia in association with Amazon.com

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