(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.
The “unceremonious dismissal” by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in July of 2019 was undiplomatic at best considering the National Executive Chiefs brought a USB thumb drive with over 5,000 pages (one case of paper) of research to the meeting. The Senate diplomats informed the Chiefs that the United States nor the Office of Indian Affairs accepts information on USB thumb drives or other digital formats for security reasons.
This “dismissal” stimulated a “driving force” in extremely offended and extremely well educated “Indians” who were more than capable of research. They scoured the National Registries, National Archives, Library of Congress, Doctoral and Masters Dissertations, anthropological and archeological studies, biographies and autobiographies, State Archives, Spanish, French, and British Archives, and original survey maps commissioned by the United States and found some of the most damning and egregious events in American History intentionally committed against the Chickamauga.
The research compiled by the Chickamauga Nation originally took over eighteen months and it still continuing. The research was presented to Academics and the academic verification process began in February of 2020 and has since been completed. At the time of the preparation of this document well over 450,000 pages of academia is available in digital format including thumb drives and DVDs which the United States government is unwilling to take or view. Most of the offices of the Representatives or Senators could not hold the 90 cases of paper they want us to physically provide. If they want to pay the printing costs and transportation costs to provide all committee members, 14 Representatives and 12 Senators with a copy, Kinko has said it would cost between $42,000 and $65,000 per copy based on a number of factors.
The results are overwhelmingly conclusive: The claims made by The Chickamauga Nation are in fact anthropologically and historically academically verified with over 450,000 pages (over 90 cases of paper) of research which is continuing to grow daily.
The indisputable conclusion of the “Academic Verifiers” is that anthropologically and historically the Chickamauga are:
1. An indigenous people, who lived in the Mississippi Bottoms consisting of the Mississippi River Valley, Tennessee River Valleys, Arkansas River Valleys in the Southeast Woodlands between 600 – 800 years prior to contact, according to carbon dating
2. Who have been recognized by the Executive Branch of the United States
3. Who have been recognized by the Legislative Branch of the United States
4. Who have been recognized by the countries of Great Britain, Spain, France, Mexico by International Treaty
5. Who have a government to government relationship with the United States
6. Who have had lands held in reserve for them by treaty and trade with the United States
7. Who have had annuities paid to them by the United States
8. Who have never ceased to exist
9. Who are not historically or ethnically related to the Cherokee
10. Who have never been terminated by the United States
11. Who practice their Traditional Ancient Religion daily
12. Who have less than ten people who can speak broken portions of their ancient language
13. Who have been and are continuing to be ethnically cleansed
As academically verified by experts in their fields, The Chickamauga Nation already possess recognition including Congressional, Presidential, and Federal recognition, International Treaty Recognition from Spain, France, Great Britain, and Mexico, and International Recognition by the United States in Alexander Hamilton’s Cabinet Meeting notes of May 29, 1793 in which Spain’s de Corondelet is working with the Chickamauga, de Corondelet’s April 5, 1793 Letter from Bloody Fellow, and the October 28, 1793 Spanish Treaty with the Chickamauga; their history and anthropology appear extensively in various National Registries and National Archives, and they have never been terminated by the United States so they cannot legally go through the recognition process, 25 C.F.R. Part 83, established by agencies of the Department of Interior.