This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of ...

The University of Tennessee sits on the ancestral lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Nation of ...

Six Deputy United States Marshals pursuing the Wickliffe gang of Cherokee Indian murderers and desperadoes, last night rode into an ambush in the Spavinaw Hills, on Saline Creek, nine miles ...

The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1930 ... The Americans wanted the millions of acres occupied by the Cherokee, Creek, ...