10000 B.C-8000 B.C.
Stone tools, small groups traveling to seasonal campsites in the southern Appalachians
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8000 B.C.-1000 B.C.
Semipermanent villages, baskets, fishhooks, cooking bowls, early cultivation of wild plants
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1000 B.C.-A.D. 900
Settled villages, corn and agriculture, pottery
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A.D. 900-1600
Cherokee towns with mounds
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| 1540 | De Soto expedition, first contact with Europeans
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| 1731 | Cherokee leaders to London with Cuming
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| 1738 | Smallpox epidemic
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| 1756 | French and Indian War
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| 1760-61 | Montgomery and Grant expeditions-the Cherokee War
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| 1762 | Cherokee leaders to London with Timberlake
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| 1763 | King George’s Proclamation
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| 1776 | Revolutionary War
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| 1783 | Smallpox epidemic
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| 1794 | End of Dragging Canoe’s war
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| 1808 | Broomestown Council
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| 1814 | Cherokee aid Jackson at Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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| 1821 | Cherokee Council approves Seqyouah’s syllabary
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| 1828 | Cherokee Phoenix begins publication
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| | Gold discovered in Georgia
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| 1830 | Indian Removal Act passed
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| 1832 | Supreme Court rules on sovereignty
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| 1835 | Treaty of New Echota signed
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| 1836 | Treaty of New Echota ratified by Congress
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| 1838-39 | Removal and Trail of Tears
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| 1861-65 | Thomas Legion fights with Confederacy
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| 1868 | Eastern Band recognized by federal government, has voting rights, pays property tax
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| 1870 | First principal chief of Eastern Band elected
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| 1889 | North Carolina recognizes Eastern Band as legal corporation
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| 1893 | First boarding school
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| 1917-18 | Cherokee men serve in military in World War I
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| 1924 | Lands held by Cherokee individuals taken and held in trust by federal government, Baker Roll
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| 1941-46 | Cherokee men serve in military in World War II
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| 1946 | Cherokee men and women allowed to register to vote
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| 1948 | Boarding school closes in Cherokee, North Carolina
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| 1948-49 | Unto These Hills, Oconaluftee Indian Village, Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian founded
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| 1984 | First Joint Council of Eastern and Western Cherokee since removal
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| 1988 | Indian Gaming Act followed by Cherokee Bingo
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| 1990 | Eastern Band begins operating their own schools
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| 1996 | Eastern Band elects first woman principal chief
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| | Eastern Band opens casino
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| 1997 | Eastern Band purchases Kituhwa Mound
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Reprinted online by permission of the publisher.
Barbara R. Duncan and Brett H. Riggs. Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press in association with the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 2003.
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