Dragging Canoe at Lookout Mountain

Tennessee's Patriots... stood on both sides of the Indian Removal Issue.

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Davey Crockett: He and Cherokee Chief Attakullakulla served under Andrew Jacksons' command in the Creek Wars. He spoke out against Jackson's Indian Removal scheme.




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Andrew Jackson - was once a Chickamauga Cherokee prisoner. He disregarded the Supreme Court ruling in Cherokee vs USA over Indian Removal Cherokees served in his household at The Hermitage.



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Sam Houston - married Texas Cherokee Chief John Jolly's daughter, and was considered a "Full Blood" Cherokee regardless of no Cherokee ancestry.


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Alvin C. York: English, Ulster Scots, Choctaw, and Cherokee ancestry

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"Money may talk, but it still hasn't learned to speak Cherokee."   ~Jay Red Eagle (Cherokee)



If YOU have Cherokee Blood, there will be a place for  YOU (through DNA proof) in this new "nation created in a day."



1794 George Washington Cherokee
Treaty Peace Medal  - Obverse



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1794 George Washington Cherokee
Treaty Peace Medal  - Reverse