Today in Chickamauga History - Month of June
1788, June: The Cherokee nation permanently moves its seat from Chota on the Little Tennessee River to Ustanali on the Oothcaloga River, near what is now Calhoun, Georgia, after a raid by settlers from East Tennessee, in which OLD TASSEL, the First Cherokee Beloved Man, and several other leaders are assassinated. A band of John SEVIER’s men killed OLD TASSEL, along with an unarmed, friendly Chief ABRAHAM of CHILHOWEE. Officer James HUBBARD persuaded OLD TASSEL, along with Chief ABRAHAM of CHILHOWEE, and three other Cherokees to meet him under a flag of truce at ABRAHAM’s house. HUBBARD allowed KIRK to murder them by tomahawk.
1794, June: Logan, C. R., (1997): The Promised Land: The Cherokees, Arkansas, and Removal, 1794-1839; Published by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program: An agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage - Page 6 - Among the first Cherokee emigrants to settle in Arkansas was a Chickamauga leader called “the Bowl.” According to a written account by a missionary, in June 1794 a party of white emigrants traveling on rafts encountered a group of Cherokees at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on the Tennessee River.
1836, June: Federal troops under General John E. WOOD, with support from East Tennessee volunteers under brigadier General R. G. DUNLAP, move into the Cherokee Nation to prevent disorder.
1839, June: The Cherokee Registry” Emigration from Georgia – Letter Written to the Chiefs of the Western Cherokees (Chickamauga) - “Friends: Through the mysterious dispensations of Providence, we have been permitted to meet in general council on the border of the great plains of the West. and Although many of us have, for a series of years past, been separated, yet we have not and cannot lose sight of the fact, that we are all of the household of the Cherokee family, and of one blood. We have already met, shook hands, and conversed together. In recognizing and embracing each other as countrymen, friends and relations, let us kindle our social fire, and take measures for cementing our reunion as a nation, by establishing the basis for a government suited to the condition and wants of the whole people, whereby wholesome laws may be enacted and administered for the security and protection of property, life, and other sacred rights, of the community. Our meeting, on this occasion, is full of interest, and is of peculiar importance to the welfare of our people. I trust, therefore, that harmony and good understanding will continue to prevail, and that the questions which may come up for consideration will be maturely weighed previous to a finial decision.