Cherokee

(Tsalagi)

The Cherokee referred to themselves as

Tsalagi or Aniywiyai which means the

"Principal People". Cherokee used the

area around Ninety Six as a hunting

ground, where they hunted deer,

turkey and even buffalo.

Marker can be reached from South Cambridge Road (State Highway 248).

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Cherokee Chief Doublehead's village around 1800

About 1800 Doublehead located his village at this site, where his brother-in-law Tahonteeskee had previously lived. Doublehead's log house was built along the same style of those of the white settlers. Chief Doublehead had previously led raids against Tennessee settlers ...

Cherokee Assembly Ground

Cherokee Assembly Ground

Ah-Yeh-Li A-Lo-Hee

(Center of the World)

Marker is at the intersection of Hartwell Street (U.S. 29) and Marsh Lane, on the right when traveling north on Hartwell Street.

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Site of Cherokee Council Tree

Here stood

The giant Black Spanish Oak

Under which

Traditionally

Sequoyah

Taught his newly invented

Alphabet

Tree felled by a storm

1934

Marker is at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Mountain Street, on the right when traveling west on Railroad Avenue.

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Cherokee Land Lottery

Oct. 1832 - Apr. 1833

In 1803, Georgia established a lottery as the fairest means of distributing land to common farmers. After gold was discovered in 1828 near Dahlonega, the state ignored federal treaties and asserted its claims on the Cherokee ...

Cherokee Indian Removal

Under the provisions of the Cherokee Removal Act of 1830, a log stockade was built, “Two hundred yards Northeast of Big Spring.” The spring supplied abundant water for the Cherokees, the soldiers and livestock. Fort Payne was used as both ...

Cherokee Boundary (1767)

[Front]:

In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. ...

The Cherokees

Greenville County was Indian Territory before the Revolution. European settlers were forbidden to live here until 1777, when Cherokee Indians were forced to cede this land to the new state. Most of modern day Greenville was hunting land used by ...

"Cherokee"

May this sculpture serve to honor the countless generations of native Americans who for 10,000 years lived in this place.

"Among these people every man is a king unto himself and no man is above any other," (Jesuit Relations, c.1640)

"They are ...

Cherokee Council House Museum

The Oakville Indians Mounds Museum is based on a seven sided Cherokee council house. This type of council house was used during the cooler months and an open sided rectangular pavilion during warmer weather. The descriptions used for the museum's ...