THE CHICKAMAUGA NATION
Today, the Chickamauga Nation is painstaking and slowly attempting to reconnect with and reestablish their language and religion while at the same time attempting to revitalize their culture. According to the Chickamauga Nation, they already hold Federal Recognition, so on July 18, 2019, their National Chiefs traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with the lawyers for the US Senate Indian Affairs committee concerning their being placed on the Serviced Tribes Roll. The National Chiefs were charged by the legal team with the task of researching their anthropology and history and having their research verified by academic experts in those fields. They have just recently announced that more than 450,000 pages of research has been verified.
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19 George Sabo III, Paths of Our Children: Historic Indians of Arkansas, Arkansas Archeological Survey Popular Series No. 3 (Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1992) Pgs. 96 - 98.
20 Meigs to Chisholm, November 2, 1809, Records of Cherokee Agency in Tennessee (M-208),NA
21 Passport signed by Return J. Meigs, January 10, 18101 American Register or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, 6:316-18.
22 Territorial Papers, 14:706.
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26 Hoig,S. W.; (1998): The Cherokees and their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire;University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. Pg. 139
27 Series of letters between U.S. government and delegates of Cherokees West, February through July 1828, Letters Received, OIA, Cherokee Agency West (M-234), NA.
28 McKenney to Duval, May 28, 1828, Letters Sent by Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1831 (M-21), NA
29 The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, Thirteenth General Assembly; 1845;Page 307. https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacXL09mqAsBM6pZZ815ViCis64uzBAICn5S5TULfYek2IhS-qJuimVH7gau11tqmucMALRM4NtGN9lXE--z31vFYh8OTBikAu_zZhGSCg1VWD4Ks2-VNfRhXP7N0KAuaUwBy-uusuldu9_OrfISQrPzugXFaYRqCrzuMm0NDFpH136ikQ62zCH_qJ1pNYp6uhRgd2IkVupZhw3WuuPyXUTjOjg1_6e3rHY1ws9jBZxqyxydF2qzsD02WWJvsXUtKGsL5ao2pZSvKfzLbVO7ydTwqIKtyh1lYtOk_WztWbPaIBQzZcE. Retrieved 2/12/2020
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31 Woldert, A.; (1923): “The Last of the Cherokees in Texas, and the Life and Death of Chief Bowles,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol.1, No. 3; p. 192.
32 https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbo47
33 Arbuckle to Jones, 30 May 1838; Records of the U.S. Army Continental Commands, Record Group 393, Fort Gibson Letter books, National Archives: Simmons to Vose, 30 May1838, Fort Gibson Letter books.
34 Holland Coffee to General Felix Huston, 17 December 1838, S. Doc. 14, 38
35 Everett,D.; (1995): The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819 – 1840,University of Oklahoma Press
(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.