And most of the push and pull was over hunting grounds....which was often shared between tribes. It was a much larger world at that time....one had to go much further to find other people/hunters. The earliest recorded original histories/journals etc have the Cherokee villages well within the boundaries of what is now TN, NC and SC. The Long Island of the Holstein is among the villages placed futherest north...that would benorth - northeast of Whites Fort (Knoxville) Joyce Gaston Reece