-----Original Message----- From: Fred Smoot [mailto:dogtrot@well.com] Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 1:29 PM To: TN-all@yahoogroups.com Subject: [TN-all] The Intruders Greetings all, The intruders -- those folk who illegally settled on, or entered Indian lands -- created an action packed story of white removal, political involvement, federal intervention, and extreme hardship on the settlers. Starting in East Tennessee (on Cherokee lands) and stretching to Giles county and Mississippi Territory (on Chickasaw lands), these removals culminated in the burning of homes and crops, the killing of livestock, etc. I have started as part of The land of Our Ancestors, a sub-project called The Intruders. It is still under construction. Suggestions and/or contributions are welcome of course. http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/intruders/ The Intruders grew from Indian Land Cessions in Tennessee, but the Intruders did not exactly fit in Cessions, so it got its home in Land. BTW, Cessions has all the federal treaties and I am now working on Colonial records. Fred Smoot Cathy Hall cat5hall@email.msn.com ASC TNGenWeb http://www.tngenweb.org/ Bradley County TNGenWeb http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley Polk County TNGenWeb http://www.tngenweb.org/polk