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Name: Cherokee Nation

Type: Polity

Start: 1794 AD

End: 1861 AD

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Was a legal, autonomous, tribal government in North America founded under the Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse and located in the southern United States.

Establishment


  • November 1794: Foundation of the Cherokee Nation under the Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse.
  • Chronology


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    1. American Civil War


    Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .

    1.1.Trans-Mississippi Theatre

    Was the theatre of war west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

    1.1.1.Trail of Blood on Ice

    Was a December 1861 campaign in the American Civil War in which pro-Union Native Americans, led by Upper Creek Chief Opothleyahola, fought their way north from Indian Territory.

  • November 1861: Battle of Round Mountain. Opothleyahola's Unionist Creeks and Seminoles defeated near present-day Stillwater.
  • December 1861: Battle of Chusto-Talasah. Opothleyahola's Unionist Creeks and Seminoles defeated near present-day Tulsa.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • December 1835: Treaty of New Echota: the entire Cherokee Nation ceded its territory in the southeast and agreed to move west to the Indian Territory.

  • January 1837: The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide parcel of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians. The Cherokee Outlet was created in 1836.

  • January 1840: The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of approximately 60,000 Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to the Cherokee territory in Oklahoma.

  • December 1861: In 1861, the Confederate States of America ratified treaties with the Osage, Seneca, and Shawnee tribes in what is now Oklahoma. The treaties were negotiated by Confederate Commissioner Albert Pike and aimed to secure alliances with Native American tribes during the Civil War.

  • December 1861: In 1861, the Confederate States ratified treaties with the Cherokee and Seminole tribes, granting them representation in the Confederate Congress. This move aimed to secure the support of Native American tribes during the American Civil War.

  • December 1861: The Confederate States ratified treaties with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, granting them a delegate in the Congress of the Confederate States; with the Comanche; with the Creek, granting them a delegate to be shared with the Seminole; and the Quapaw.

  • Disestablishment


  • November 1861: Battle of Round Mountain. Opothleyahola's Unionist Creeks and Seminoles defeated near present-day Stillwater.
  • December 1861: Battle of Chusto-Talasah. Opothleyahola's Unionist Creeks and Seminoles defeated near present-day Tulsa.
  • December 1861: In 1861, the Confederate States of America ratified treaties with the Osage, Seneca, and Shawnee tribes in what is now Oklahoma. The treaties were negotiated by Confederate Commissioner Albert Pike and aimed to secure alliances with Native American tribes during the Civil War.
  • December 1861: In 1861, the Confederate States ratified treaties with the Cherokee and Seminole tribes, granting them representation in the Confederate Congress. This move aimed to secure the support of Native American tribes during the American Civil War.
  • December 1861: The Confederate States ratified treaties with the Choctaw and Chickasaw, granting them a delegate in the Congress of the Confederate States; with the Comanche; with the Creek, granting them a delegate to be shared with the Seminole; and the Quapaw.
  • Selected Sources


  • List of American Civil War battles. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles
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