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2301
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Before English colonists arrived, Native Americans had lived in the state 12,000 years. Thirty tribes totaling 100,000 occupied the state in the late 1500s, but colonial wars and diseases rapidly decreased that number to 20,000 in 1800.
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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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