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"How can we know where we're going if we don't know where we've been"
The phrase above is originally written in the Cherokee alphabet invented by Sequoyah...
to view it you must have the downloadable Cherokee Font from www.cherokee.org
If you have the Cherokee font on your machine...this wording reads,
"How can we know where we are going if we don't know where we've been".
The future of our nation may well depend on the lessons we learn from our past. To be ignorant of the past is to be ignorant of the people who surround us and ignorant of what is to come
Joyce Gaston Reece, 6 May 2003
The long and varied history of southeast Tennessee and McMinn County begins hundreds of years before the advent of white immigrants. There are many sites dedicated to Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek & Catawba research.
There are few families located in this region who haven't been affected in some way by this culture....either by blood heritage or association with them. We hope to list some of those links here and invite you to submit your site link for possible addition to the page.
Then there are our people of African-American heritage. We would like to present links and data that will make research more fruitful for people researching these roots. In the McMinn County area many Americans with slave/freedmen heritage carry the same surnames as the slave owners...this would be true in many cases regardless of geographical location. We hope that these few links provided by fellow researcher and cousin of the heart, Mr. Preston Washington, and good internet friend, Deborah Woolf, will provide you with the help you need.
(We do not post web addresses that are pay sites. If you find a link that leads to a pay site please inform your site hosts. Please feel free to provide links which you feel would be beneficial to fellow researchers.)
The web site for the Cherokee Nation is located at
Has historical links.
This site is owned and maintained by Judy Wallis White and Dennis Partridge is one of the most extensive and informative sites on the internet today. Judy and Dennis are constantly working to improve this site....their dedication shows. This site will have hundreds of links to Native American as well as African-American research. Look for a search engine that helps locate Native American research surnames in the census rolls
The Tennessee site done by the above folks. Well worth a visit.
www.accessgenealogy.com/tennessee.htm
A few pages providing a brief overview of Cherokee culture.
http://iweb.tntech.edu/kosburn/history-444/CHER-CULTURE.html
National Archives & Records section searchable archives
http://216.54.96.55/aad/title_list.jsp?fdny=Tr3dEz7q
American Source Documents
http://www.multied.com/documents/index.html
A wonderful site for source documents for the southern Appalachian region.
http://appalachiansummit.tripod.com/
Another very good site for source documents.
http://www.multied.com/documents/index.html
The American History Genealogy Project pertaining to Arkansas Cherokee as well as several other state links.
http://www.comanchelodge.com/1817.html
A resource that never needs to be overlooked. This site has thousands and thousands of books available online and is easily searchable.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The link for the Cherokee Museum in Cherokee, N.C. This is the source for all available copies of "The Journal of Cherokee Studies".
http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/
Cherokee information on Tennessee Genealogy web
http://www.tngenweb.org/cherokee_by_blood/names.htm
The web site for Qualla Reservation in North Carolina
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ncqualla/
Among the top resources for internet Chickasaw research.
Beginners board, Slave board, African-Native American board, General board, Free people of color board, cemetery listings. Preston Washington posted the Four Mile Branch Baptist Church-Muskogee County, OK.), Freedman Bank listings, great site.
http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum/
Tons of stuff. Dawes info, slave owners of the 5 Civilized Tribes, Slave narratives, with Amerindian ones noted.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ewyatt/_borders/
A most comprehensive site for all things Creek (Muskogee, Seminole), particularly Freedman info and links
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/main.htm
this one has links to many of the census and rolls
I'm sure you know of this one. Includes maps, links to census, info. on Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Yuchi,
missions, traders, intruders
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnfirst/
This link takes you to a very good list of links located on the Monroe County, Tennessee Genealogy Web site...probably the best county web site in Tennessee.
http://www.tngenweb.org/monroe/blhist.htm
www.tngenweb.org/monroe is the home site.
Abstracted from the Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records. National Archives Microcopy M-208, Rolls 1-7, 13.
Transcribed by Janelle Swearingen
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janelle/Intruders.htm
Another link to Native American information located at Monroe County web site.
http://www.tngenweb.org/monroe/natamer.htm
One of the most extensive sites concerning the lineage of Nancy Ward, aka. Nanyi-hi
(under maintenance until July,2003)
Alabama Indian Affairs Commission
http://aiac.state.al.us/GENEALOGY_2.htm
A brief history on Fort Southwest Point located near Kingston, TN.
http://www.southwestpoint.com/
A book online concerning the settlement of Georgia (slow to load)
In Monograph
A voyage to Georgia, begun in the Year 1735
Moore, Francis
Monacan Indian Nation link
The Cherokee Indians vs. the State of Georgia
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/aist4990/02/tmhaymo/cherokeevsgeorgia.htm
The USGenWeb Census Project Native Americans of
Sandy Onbey Native American Coordinator |
http://www.us-census.org/native/5_civlilized_tribes.html
One of the better known sites for Cherokee research.
Travels Through North & South Carolina,
Georgia, East & West Florida,
the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or
Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing
An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions,
Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.
Embellished with Copper-Plates:
Electronic Edition.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html
Cherokee Indian Nation Census Information
sites.rootsweb.com/~itgenweb/apps/index.htm
The website accompanying the Cherokee Genealogy mail list is at:
www.angelfire.com/or/matney/CheroP.html
When the Cherokee were Cherokee
This is one of the most complete sites ever seen...covers many subjects of the Cherokee culture.
www.angelfire.com/0k4/oukah7.htm
A link to a historical overview of the Cherokee. Look for "The Historical Notes of the Cherokee People" by Linda Fulmer. A part of the Cherokee Prayer Initiative
The Emigrant Tribes: Wyandot, Delaware & Shawnee: A Cronology
www.ukans.edu/kansas/wn/emigrant.txt
The University of Arkansas
Native American Links
www.asu.edu/lib/archives/links.htm
A very comprehensive database.
Native American Research Mail lists.
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