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I added this page in hopes of finding out more information about the Chickamauga Cherokee. I am a member of the Chickamauga Cherokee of Fair Play, Mo., the White River Band. I received my tribal membership at a family reunion and so other than family I have never met any others. Living in California also makes contact hard. So if you have wonderful links to the Chickamauga or Cherokee sites I would really be honored to add them to this link page. Have you found a book that includes Chickamauga history?, please let me know. I hope to learn more and share what I learn. If any of my fellow tribe members would like to see something added just let me know. I am looking for Nancy A. Smith 0r Nancie, she is the one that I gained membership from. She was born 1830 in Tennessee, married to Nathaniel George Simpson. Please contact me if you have any information. Thank you.
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We will walk the White Path of Life together. Like a brother of my own blood, I will love you. I will wipe tears from your eyes. When you are sad, I will put your aching heart to rest.
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Old Frontiers. By John P. Brown. 
" Whole Indian Nations have melted away
like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave
scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their
destroyers. Where are the Delaware's? They have been reduced to a mere shadow
of their former greatness. We had hoped that the white men would not be
willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have
passed the mountains, and have settled upon Tsalagi (Cherokee) land. They
wish to have that usurpation sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the
same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Tsalagi
(Cherokees). New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country, which
the Tsalagi (Cherokees) and their fathers have so long occupied, will be
demanded, and the remnant of the Ani Yvwiya, The Real People, once so great
and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness.
There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again
behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to
point out any further retreat for the miserable Tsalagi (Cherokees), the
extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run
all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than to submit to further loss
of our country? Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt
or fight. As for me, I have my young warriors about me. We will hold our
land."
