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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

www.cherokee.org

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

www.accessgenealogy.com  


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

http://www.flash.net/~kma/ 


 

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/


 

Freedman History among other things.           

 http://www.african-nativeamerican.com/


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

http://www.censusdiggins.com/native_american_ancestry.html


 

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.


SETTLERS AND INTRUDERS ON CHEROKEE INDIAN LANDS 1801-1816

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

www.nancyward.com

(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

http://www.monacannation.com/


The Cherokee Indians vs. the State of Georgia

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/aist4990/02/tmhaymo/cherokeevsgeorgia.htm


The USGenWeb Census Project

Native Americans of
The Five Civilized Tribes

Sandy Onbey

 Native American Coordinator

http://www.us-census.org/native/5_civlilized_tribes.html


One of the better known sites for Cherokee research.

http://www.turtletown.org/


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.

Bartram, William, 1739-1823

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

http://missioncarolina.org


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.


Genealogy Community
http://www.wvi.com/~wb
Links to Freedmen and Cherokee web sites
 
These links courtesy of Dan M.  Webmaster of the above web site.

 

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