Cherokee Nation timeline > 1738
"In 1738 or 1739 the smallpox, brought to
"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth." - Chief Seattle
"In 1738 or 1739 the smallpox, brought to
"The Cherokee were the mountaineers of the South, holding the entire Allegheny region from the interlocking head-streams of the Kanawha and the Tennessee southward almost to the site of Atlanta, and from the Blue ridge on the east to the Cumberland range on the west, a territory comprising about 40,000 square miles, now included in the states of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Their principal towns were upon the headwaters of the
an excerpts from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
Originally published in 1900
ISBN 0-486-28907-9