Pam Birdsall wrote: > Does anyone know where and what Tandy Walker Reservation is? My Uncle > was suspose to have been born on that reservation? There are many misconceptions as the the term "reservation" as applied to the Cherokee tribe. After the treaty of 1817-1819, (which took about one fourth of the eastern lands from the tribe), those people who lived within the ceded areas were given the option of being paid for their improvements and moving into the (smaller) Cherokee Nation-- or staying in the ceded area, being awarded a 640 "Reservation" and becoming citizens of the United States. Many of these reservations would be a "life interest" only, and would revert to the U.S. when the principal ("Reservee") died. Some tried it, were dissatisfied with their "white" neighbors, and later moved- either to the west (now Arkansas), or moved back into the eastern Cherokee Nation. I have no record of a "Tandy Walker Reservation", but it would have been in the east. jc