Actually if you could tell me all the places the old nation was, I'd appreciate it. I know where some of it was, but it's hard cause sometimes places on records are referred to as the states they are now, or "indian territory", or old nation. I think old nation was areas east of mississippi river, such as tennessee, mississippi, arkansas, but I'm not sure of exact areas in these places, and I know there were other places too. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Joyce G. Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> Reply-To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] MESSAGE FROM LEONARD PELTIER Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:41:46 -0500 If you get a current day map you will see the Little Tennessee River flowing from NC (heads up on Qualla Boundary) into east Tennessee. On this map you should see a dam on the river named Chilhowee. The village of Chilhowee stood very near that dam. Just down river from that was Citico then Chota. You can see an old map of the Grant Expedition of this area at www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2 I think it is behind the Records icon. I may have put it on the Polk site also www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2 Check out the biographies while you are there. Anytime you have questions concerning the geographical subject of the eastern Cherokee I can, probably, help. I've lived right 'amongst' them all my life. Joyce Gaston Reece ==== CHEROKEE Mailing List ==== <<>OPEN forum to all Cherokee topics - except Genealogy<>> <>Culture-History-Language-Folk lore and Truths<> Good Manners & Language is required to be on the list ALL the links you will need to sub and unsub or contact listowner below http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Native/CHEROKEE.html ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx