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100
80 AD Cherokee lived in Stone Fort in middle TN
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100
1500 BC Stone Pallisade Oldest Dwelling in Southeast is now covered by Franklin NC airport
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Jan 1, 1520
Settlement by Spanish led by Lucas Vasques de Ayllon 1520- 1526
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Jan 1, 1520
Fort Established 50 miles east of Asheville, NC by Spanish- enslaving Cherokees 1520-1522
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Dec 1, 1520
Narváez entered Appalachian Mountains but was repelled
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Jan 1, 1540
Spanish invaders in Cherokee land write descriptions of Cherokee skin colors from "negro" (black) to light skinned and "fair," Moyano and Pardo
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Treaty with SC Colonists and Cherokee
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1690 SC Colony Politician James Moore visits Cherokee Towns
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Treaty which out of more than a million Cherokee only lists a few names
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Treaty with South Carolina, 1721 Ceded land between the Santee, Saluda, and Edisto Rivers to the Province of South Carolina.
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Nikwasi Mound Meeting Sir Alexander Cuming out of 2 Million Cherokee, only a few names were listed
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Articles of Trade and Friendship, 1730 Established rules for trade between the Cherokee and the English colonies. Signed between seven Cherokee chiefs
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Treaty with South Carolina, 1755
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Treaty of Long-Island-on-the-Holston, 1761
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Treaty of Charlestown, 1762
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Henry Timberlake (1730 – September 30, 1765) published memoirs in 1765
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1801-1901 Moravians recorded about 100 years of history between the Moravian missionaries and their Cherokee brethren. The records constitute the only known account of daily life in the Cherokee nation
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Treaty of Hard Labour, 1768
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Treaty of Johnson Hall, 1768
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Birth of Sequoyah ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya[how he signed his name] or ᏎᏉᏯ Se-quo-ya [as spelled today]
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Treaty of Lochaber, 1770
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Treaty with Virginia, 1772
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18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s southern journey from March, 1773 to January, 1777
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Treaty of Augusta, 1773
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Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, 1775
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Treaty of Fort Henry, 1777
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Treaty of DeWitts’ Corner, 1777
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Treaty of Long Swamp Creek, 1783
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Treaty of Coyatee, 1785
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Treaty of Hopewell, 1785
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Treaty of Dumplin Creek, 1785
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Treaty of Holston, 1791
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Treaty of Pensacola, 1792
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Treaty of Philadelphia, 1794
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Treaty of Tellico, 1798
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Cherokee Indian Agency (TN) 1801-1835.
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Treaty of Tellico, 1804
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Treaty of Tellico, October 25, 1805
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Treaty of Tellico, October 27, 1805
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Treaty of Washington, 1806
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Treaty of Fort Jackson, 1814
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William Holland Thomas (February 5, 1805 – May 10, 1893) was adopted by Ᏺ Ꮎ Ꭻ Ꮝ Ꭼ and he later became Principal Chief
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Treaties of Washington, March 22, 1816
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Treaty of Chickasaw Council House, September 14, 1816
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1817 Reservation Rolls lists a few of the Cherokee no attempt at enrolling everyone mostly just listed those 1/4 or higher
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Brainerd Mission lists only a handful of names of the hundreds of thousands of Cherokee and mixed cherokee
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Treaty of the Cherokee Agency, 1817
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1817-1835 Emigration Rolls
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Treaty of Washington, 1819
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Treaty of San Antonio de Bexar, with the Spanish Empire, 1822
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Cherokee Phoenix (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ, Tsalagi Tsulehisanvhi)
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Treaty of Washington, 1828
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Illegal Treaty of 1830
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A Census of over 16,000 Cherokee residing in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina DID NOT attempt to include all and left out those less than 1/4 blood and intermarried with whites who were politicians, or prominent, or illiterate
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Treaty of New Echota, 1835
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1836 J H Payne imprisoned by GA authorities for being in Cherokee Nation East
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Treaty of Bowles Village with the Republic of Texas, 1836
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1838 some of the Cherokee go west on the Trail of Tears
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John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) Payne spent time with the Cherokee Indians. He published his accounts
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Treaty of Bird’s Fort with the Republic of Texas, 1843
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Treaties with the Republic of Texas, 1844
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Treaty of Washington, 1846
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1848 Mullay Roll
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1851 Siler Roll
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1851 Old Settler Roll compiled from memory and is not comprehensive
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1852 Chapman Roll
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1852 Drennen Roll
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Confederate Civil War Thoma Legion of Cherokee has roster with many cherokee names
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Treaty of Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1865
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Treaty of the Cherokee Nation, 1866
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Treaty of Washington, 1868
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1869 Swetland Roll
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918) Cherokee children were enrolled and stripped of identity and language
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1883 Hester Roll
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Haskell United States Indian Industrial Training School opens Lawrence, Kansas, in 1884
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1898 Dawes Roll
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1908 Churchill Roll
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1909 Guion Miller West Roll
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1909 Guion Miller East Roll
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Cherokee by Blood, Volumes 1-8 published Jerry Wright Jordan
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Non Permanent Norse Settlements in Northeast & coastlines
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prior to 900 AD Cherokees Settled Kituwah one of seven mother towns of southeast