>Ethel, the Choctaws lived in central and southern present-day Mississippi, >southern Louisiana and part of Alabama. The Chickasaws lived just to the >north of the Choctaws. The Creeks lived east of the Choctaws and >Chickasaws, in eastern Alabama and southwestern Georgia. The Cherokees >were in northern Georgia, the western Carolinas and southeastern Tennessee. > The Seminoles were in the swamps and woodlands of Florida. > >Each tribe had its own (or several) Trail of Tears. I know lots of people >think of Trail of Tears in conjunction with the Cherokees, but the term was >used by each tribe to describe its trek(s) from the Southeast to Indian >Territory. The Choctaws were the first to move, beginning in 1832. > >The Cherokees fought their removal like the civilized people they were--in >the courts. The United States Supreme Court agreed that the United States >had no right to force their removal, but Andrew Jackson's response was the >he had an army and the Supreme Court didn't, so the Cherokees WOULD move. >Once again, might makes right. > >Beverly >missbev@theshop.net > >>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:27:51 -0600 (CST) >>From: "Peter B. Mortensen" <n21pe@gte.net> >>Subject: query: Locations of the Five Tribes >> >>Does anyone know the original locations of the five tribes: >> >>Cherokee >>Chickasaw >>Choctaw >>Creek >>Seminole >> >>I believe the Cherokees came out of GA/SC to Oklahoma. I noticed on one >>of the old maps I was researching in SC (looking for my ggrandfather DR? >>JOHN CRAVENS, Charleston?,SC, that there was a big Cherokee County and >>then it decreased dramatically within a few years. >> >>I wonder if they were forced out along with the GA Cherokees on the >>"Trail of Tears." >> >>Ethel Craven-Sweet at n21pe@gte.net >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion >- To unsubscribe, email: Majordomo@MsState.Edu >- In body of message: unsubscribe afrigeneas >- >- Afrigeneas archives: http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >