Record #:

4389

Author(s):

King, Duane

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Spring 1991, p9-13, il

Subject(s):

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina; Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans