Documenting Chickamauga Cherokee history

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chickamauga_researcher/

I asked Linda about postin’ this before I posted it.

Some aspects of Eastern Blackfoot history seem to overlap Chickamauga/Cherokee history and I have noticed that on her boards here. But she has given me an idea by the way these boards are run. So many Chickamauga sites end up in arguing, and I see that doesn’t have to be the case.

I think so many people depend on “family and/oral history” that they get angry at documenting as much as they have or can document. I think many have dug and given up after a while. On this board everyone digs into the 1700s. Many Chickamauga researchers have family surnames that began maybe 1790 or 1800 apparently out of nowhere, and it is hard to break past that barrier.

Well we want to perform “academic research” of the Chickamauga, where they were, also when and who. We want to provide documentation. From my own family, they appear to have started in E. Tn. went up to the Ohio Valley for Little Turtle’s War, returned to N Al along the Tennessee River, and later to Ar and then Ok. Some stopped at every point along the way.

We are going to document the locations of the Cherokee Villages, their chiefs and family surnames, as well as what ever else we find. If interested, please go see the yahoo site. There are places this will overlap the Eastern Blackfoot people. I think these 2 rsearch projects will compliment each other especially in Kentucky and neighboring states.

At present anyone can join and post.

best wishes —

vance