The Cherokee are an Iroquoian-language people => The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), officially the Haudenosaunee (/ˌhoʊdinoʊˈʃoʊniː/ meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. The English called them the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca (listed geographically from east to west). After 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, which became known as the Six Nations.
Boat is over Tanasi - May 11, 2022
submerged by creation of Tellico Reservoir, after completion of a dam (1979) of Little Tennessee River
TANASI Memorial Marker is managed by the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation - Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ,
AKA - Tanase, Tenasi, Tenassee, Tunissee, Tennessee...
Three Mohawk chiefs from one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and a Mahican of the Algonquian peoples, were painted by Jan Verelst in London to commemorate their travel from New York in 1710 to meet Queen Anne of Great Britain.
These men were received in London as diplomats, being transported through the streets of the city in Royal carriages, and received by Queen Anne at the Court of St. James Palace. They also visited the Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral. The four kings were all described in a contemporary pamphlet as being in shape, muscular and within an inch or two of being six feet tall. Their complexions were described as being brown and their hair long and black. Queen Anne gave them a set of communion plates, with the royal cipher and coat of arms... The Archbishop of Canterbury gave each of the chiefs a Bible bound in Turkey-red leather (to be used as a Beal Cipher? - CKS)
NOTE: All are depicted wearing Red Bows, similar to the Codex Magliabechiano, Pages 101, 103, Page 105, 107, 109, etc...
In 1730, Sir Alexander Cuming, a trader claiming to be an emissary of King George II, journeyed to Tanasi and thourgh questionable mean, obtained the Tanasi Warrior's allegiance for England.
The Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek (Muscogee) join as US allies in a military campaign against Red Sticks, a confederate faction that had allied with Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief who was fighting with the British against the United States, killed about 250 militia men and civilians at Fort Mims in retaliation for an ambush by American militia at Burnt Corn Creek.[86]
Andrew Jackson headed south from Fayetteville, Tennessee, in October with 2,500 militia, establishing Fort Strother as his supply base.[88] He sent his cavalry under General Coffee ahead of the main force, destroying Red Stick villages and capturing supplies.[89][90] Coffee defeated a band of Red Sticks at the Battle of Tallushatchee on November 3, and Jackson defeated another band later that month at the Battle of Talladega.[91]
By January 1814, the expiration of enlistments and desertion had reduced Jackson's force by about 1,000 volunteers, but he continued the offensive.[93] The Red Sticks counterattacked at the Battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek. Jackson repelled them but was forced to withdraw to Fort Strother.[94] Jackson's army was reinforced by further recruitment and the addition of a regular army unit, the 39th U.S. Infantry Regiment. The combined force of 3,000 men—including Cherokee, Choctaw, and Muscogee allies—attacked a Red Stick fort at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River, which was manned by about 1,000 men.[95] The Red Sticks were overwhelmed ...and massacred.
Nearly 300 women and children were taken prisoner and distributed to Jackson's Native American allies.[96] The victory broke the power of the Red Sticks.[97] Jackson continued his scorched-earth campaign of burning villages, destroying supplies,[97] and starving Red Stick women and children.[98] The campaign ended when William Weatherford, the Red Stick leader, surrendered,[99] although some Red Sticks fled to East Florida.
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Following the Battle of Pensacola, Battle of New Orleans & First Seminole War Jackson remained in command of troops in the southern half of the United States and was permitted to make his headquarters at the Hermitage.[129] Jackson continued to displace the Native Americans in areas under his command:
1816 - 1820 Jackson signed five treaties in which the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee and Chickasaw ceded tens of millions of acres of land to the United States, despite resistance from Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford. These included the Treaty of Tuscaloosa and the Treaty of Doak's Stand.[130][131]
Jackson's occupation of Pensacola would lead Spain to sell Florida, which Spain did in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819.[140] In February 1819, a congressional investigation exonerated Jackson,[141] and
1823 - Jackson's victory was instrumental in convincing the Seminoles to sign the Treaty of Moultrie Creek in, which surrendered much of their land in Florida.[142]
Menawa was one of the principal leaders of the Red "Sticks". Painted by Charles Bird King, 1837.
Codex Zouche-Nuttall, pg. 86
Sequoyah presented his Cherokee Sylllabary to the Cherokee National Council. They later awarded him a medal, in 1824.
The Cherokee Phoenix Tsalagi Tsulehisanvhi began publishing at New Echota, the first American Indian newspaper.
Sections 78:15, D&C 107:53; 116:1 and 117:8 & 11
Andrew Jackson was elected President in 1828; he campaigned on a platform of Indian Removal. Gold was discovered near Dahlonega, Georgia, and a gold rush ensued.
The Indian Removal Act was passed by the United States Congress by a narrow margin. It was controversial and debated throughout the U.S.
The United States Supreme Court decided in favor of the Cherokees in Worcester vs. Georgia, declaring them a sovereign nation.
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