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Ancestors of the Cherokees inhabited the southern Appalachians beginning around 1000 A.D., some 500 years before European explorers reached the New World. Archaeologists call these people the Pisgah Culture. The majority lived in villages in Buncombe and Haywood Counties, while others lived in the mountains of North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. These people were both hunters and farmers.
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4389
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At one time the Cherokees occupied territory covering 40,000 square miles, but after their first contact with the Europeans in the 1500s, life became a struggle to keep the white man from taking their land. Treaties were made and broken, and wars were fought until 1794. Finally in 1838-39, the United States forcibly removed the Cherokees to the Oklahoma Territory. Around a thousand escaped to the North Carolina mountains, and their descendants live on the 56,000- acre Qualla Boundary, a fraction of their once vast territory.
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16187
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Federal projects in the mountains created employment opportunities, places of research, and parks for the nation's citizens. The National Climatic Data Center opened in 1952 and preserved the nation's weather records. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park opened the Southern Appalachians to the nation and the United States Forest Service managed another 1,000,000 acres of natural resources in the region.
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Western forests were stripped in the 19th-century, but with investment of time and money George Vanderbilt helped to restore the region's natural resources. The region was first to hire an American forester, Gifford Pinchot, establish an American College of Forestry with Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck as head, and create a national forest in eastern America.
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