Nancy Ward, the Glossary
Nanyehi (Cherokee: ᎾᏅᏰᎯ), known in English as Nancy Ward (c.1738 – c.1823), was a Beloved Woman and political leader of the Cherokee.[1]
Table of Contents
63 relations: Attakullakulla, Battle of Island Flats, Battle of Taliwa, Benton, Tennessee, Cattle, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cherokee, Cherokee language, Cherokee Nation (1794–1907), Chickamauga Cherokee, Chickamauga Creek, Choctaw, Chota (Cherokee town), Daughters of the American Revolution, De facto, Diplomacy, Dragging Canoe, Elizabethton, Tennessee, English language, European Americans, Evan Shelby, Finding Your Roots, Fort Duquesne, Fort Watauga, French and Indian War, George Washington, Georgia (U.S. state), Ghigau, Grainger County, Tennessee, Harold Felton, Historic Cherokee settlements, Hiwassee River, Holston River, Indian Territory, James Vann, John Sevier, Joseph Martin (general), Lenape, Little Pigeon River (Tennessee), Lovely's Purchase, Mohawk people, Monroe County, Tennessee, Muscogee, Nancy Ward Tomb, Oconostota, Overhill Cherokee, Overmountain Men, Polk County, Tennessee, Rutherford Light Horse expedition, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- 18th-century Native American women
- Cherokee Nation people (1794–1907)
- Cherokee slave owners
- Native American history of Tennessee
- Native American people from Tennessee
- Native American women in warfare
- People from Chota (Cherokee town)
- People from pre-statehood Tennessee
- People of Tennessee in the American Revolution
Attakullakulla
Attakullakulla (Cherokee”Tsalagi”, (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) Atagukalu and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to around 1775. Nancy Ward and Attakullakulla are people from Chota (Cherokee town).
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Battle of Island Flats
The Battle of Island Flats (also Battle at Long Island of the Holston, Battle of Eaton's Station) was the opening battle of the American War of Independence in the west. Nancy Ward and battle of Island Flats are native American history of Tennessee.
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Battle of Taliwa
The Battle of Taliwa was fought in Ball Ground, Georgia, in 1755.
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Benton, Tennessee
Benton is a town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States.
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Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator.
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Nancy Ward and Cherokee are native Americans in the American Revolution.
Cherokee language
Number of speakers Cherokee is classified as Critically Endangered by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Cherokee or Tsalagi (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people.
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Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)
The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, pronounced Tsalagihi Ayeli) was a legal, autonomous, tribal government in North America recognized from 1794 to 1907.
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Chickamauga Cherokee
The Chickamauga Cherokee were a Native American group that separated from the greater body of the Cherokee during the American Revolutionary War and up to the early 1800s. Nancy Ward and Chickamauga Cherokee are native American history of Tennessee.
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Chickamauga Creek
North and South Chickamauga Creek are short tributaries of the Tennessee River which join it near Chattanooga, Tennessee on the north and the south.
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Choctaw
The Choctaw (Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Nancy Ward and Choctaw are native Americans in the American Revolution.
Chota (Cherokee town)
Chota (also spelled Chote, Echota, Itsati, and other similar variations) is a historic Overhill Cherokee town site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in supporting the American Revolutionary War.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.
Dragging Canoe
Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors who resisted colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South. Nancy Ward and Dragging Canoe are 1730s births, native Americans in the American Revolution and people from pre-statehood Tennessee.
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Elizabethton, Tennessee
Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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European Americans
European Americans are Americans of European ancestry.
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Evan Shelby
Evan Shelby (c. 1719 or 1720 – 4 December 1794) was a Welsh-American trapper and militia officer in the Washington District Regiment of the North Carolina militia on the frontier of the Southern colonies.
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Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS.
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Fort Duquesne
Fort Duquesne (originally called Fort Du Quesne) was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
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Fort Watauga
Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Nancy Ward and George Washington are American slave owners.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Ghigau
Ghigau (Cherokee: ᎩᎦᎤ) or Agigaue (Cherokee:ᎠᎩᎦᎤᎡ) is a Cherokee prestigious title meaning "beloved woman" or "war woman". Nancy Ward and Ghigau are 18th-century American women, 18th-century Native American women, 18th-century Native Americans and native American women in warfare.
Grainger County, Tennessee
Grainger County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Harold Felton
Harold William Felton (April 1, 1902 – July 12, 1991) was an American writer and folklorist, an author of many children's books and books of American tall tales, among others.
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Historic Cherokee settlements
The historic Cherokee settlements were Cherokee settlements established in Southeastern North America up to the removals of the early 19th century.
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Hiwassee River
The Hiwassee River originates from a spring on the north slope of Rocky Mountain in Towns County in the northern area of the State of Georgia.
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Holston River
The Holston River is a river that flows from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Indian Territory
Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state.
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James Vann
James Vann (c. 1762–64 – February 19, 1809) was a Cherokee leader, one of the triumvirate with Major Ridge and Charles R. Hicks, who led the Upper Towns of East Tennessee and North Georgia as part of the ᎤᏪᏘ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ (Uwet Tsalag Ayetl or Old Cherokee Nation). Nancy Ward and James Vann are 18th-century Native Americans and Cherokee slave owners.
John Sevier
John Sevier (September 23, 1745 September 24, 1815) was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. Nancy Ward and John Sevier are people from pre-statehood Tennessee and people of Tennessee in the American Revolution.
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Joseph Martin (general)
Joseph Martin, Jr. (1740–1808) was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War, in which Martin's frontier diplomacy with the Cherokee people is credited with not only averting Indian attacks on the Scotch-Irish American and English American settlers who helped win the battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens, but with also helping to keep the Indians' position neutral and from siding with the British troops during those crucial battles. Nancy Ward and Joseph Martin (general) are American slave owners and people of Tennessee in the American Revolution.
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Lenape
The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Nancy Ward and Lenape are native Americans in the American Revolution.
Little Pigeon River (Tennessee)
The Little Pigeon River is a river located entirely within Sevier County, Tennessee.
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Lovely's Purchase
Lovely's Purchase, also called Lovely's Donation, was part of the Missouri Territory and the Arkansaw Territory of the early nineteenth century.
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Mohawk people
The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
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Monroe County, Tennessee
Monroe County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States. Nancy Ward and Muscogee are native Americans in the American Revolution.
Nancy Ward Tomb
The Nancy Ward Tomb is the tomb of Nancy Ward, her brother and her son in Benton, Tennessee, U.S. With In 1923, a plaque reading "Princess and Prophetess of the Cherokee Nation, the Pocahontas of Tennessee, and a constant friend of the American Pioneer" was installed by the Nancy Ward Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Oconostota
Oconostota (c. 1707–1783) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. Nancy Ward and Oconostota are people from Chota (Cherokee town).
Overhill Cherokee
Overhill Cherokee was the term for the Cherokee people located in their historic settlements in what is now the U.S. state of Tennessee in the Southeastern United States, on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Overmountain Men
The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from west of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are the leading edge of the Appalachian Mountains, who took part in the American Revolutionary War.
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Polk County, Tennessee
Polk County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Rutherford Light Horse expedition
The Rutherford Light Horse expedition was a punitive military excursion launched against the Lower, Middle, and Overhill Cherokee settlements of the Cherokee Indians in the Appalachian region of North Carolina.
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Savanukah
Savanukahwn (Cherokee) was known as the Raven of Chota in the late 18th century. Nancy Ward and Savanukah are people from pre-statehood Tennessee.
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
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Shawnee
The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Nancy Ward and Shawnee are native Americans in the American Revolution.
Skiagusta
A skiagusta (ᎠᏍᎦᏯᎬᏍᏔ, also asgayagvsta, also skyagunsta, also skayagusta), (ᎠᏍᎦᏯᎬᏍᏔ, asgayagvsta), also spelled skyagusta, skiagunsta, skyagunsta, skayagunsta, skygusta, askayagusta, asgayagusta, skyacust, or syacust.
Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Tellico River
The Tellico River is a river in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Toccoa/Ocoee River
The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States.
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Treaty of Dewitt's Corner
The Treaty of Dewitts Corner ended the initial Overhill Cherokee targeted attacks on colonial settlements that took place at the beginning of the American Revolution.
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Treaty of Hopewell
Three agreements, each known as a Treaty of Hopewell, were signed between representatives of the Congress of the United States and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw peoples.
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Wes Studi
Wesley Studi (ᏪᏌ ᏍᏚᏗ; born December 17, 1947) is a Native American (Cherokee Nation) actor and film producer.
William Bean
William Bean (December 9, 1721-May 1782) was an American pioneer, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association. Nancy Ward and William Bean are people from pre-statehood Tennessee.
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See also
18th-century Native American women
- Anne des Cadeaux
- Catherine Montour
- Coocoochee
- Cuhtahlatah
- Dinah John
- Domitilde
- Dorcas Honorable
- Edith Turner
- Elizabeth Bertrand
- Ghigau
- Glory of the Morning
- Hannah Freeman
- Hannah Ocuish
- Madam La Compt
- Madame Montour
- Marguerite Scypion
- Maria Rosa Villalpando
- Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc
- Mary Musgrove
- Molly Brant
- Molly Ockett
- Monette (slave)
- Myeerah
- Nancy Ward
- Native American women in Colonial America
- Netnokwa
- Nonhelema
- Polly Cooper
- Queen Alliquippa
- Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief)
- Queen Betty
- Rachel Findlay
- Sehoy
- Sehoy II
- Sehoy III
- Senauki
- Sophia Durant
- Tacumwah
- Tattooed Arm
- Toypurina
- Tyonajanegen
- Wanagapeth
Cherokee Nation people (1794–1907)
- Blue Duck (outlaw)
- Carrie Bushyhead Quarles
- Catharine Brown (Cherokee teacher)
- Cherokee freedmen
- Crawford Goldsby
- David Brown (translator)
- Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)
- Eliza Bushyhead Alberty
- George "Corn" Tassel
- Granville Craig
- Isabel Cobb
- James Arcene
- Jenny McIntosh
- Jesse Chisholm
- John Watts (Cherokee chief)
- Katharine Alexander
- Mary Jane Ross
- Nancy Ward
- Olive Stokes Mix
- Sequoyah
- Tsali
- Will Rogers
- Yonaguska
Cherokee slave owners
- Clement V. Rogers
- James Vann
- Joel B. Mayes
- John Drew (Cherokee)
- John Jolly
- John Ridge
- John Rollin Ridge
- John Ross (Cherokee chief)
- Joseph Vann
- Major Ridge
- Nancy Ward
- Stand Watie
Native American history of Tennessee
- Avery's Trace
- Battle of Island Flats
- Brentwood Library Site
- Brick Church Mound and Village Site
- Castalian Springs Mound Site
- Catawba Trail
- Chatata
- Cherokee Arboretum at Audubon Acres
- Cherokee Path
- Cherokee–American wars
- Chickamauga Cherokee
- Chisca
- Dunbar Cave State Park
- Feurt Mounds and Village Site
- Fewkes Group Archaeological Site
- Fort Armistead (Tennessee)
- Fort Cass
- Great Hiwassee
- Great Indian Warpath
- Great Tellico
- Hair Conrad Cabin
- Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7
- Hiwassee Island
- Indian Camp Hollow
- List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition
- Long Island (Tennessee)
- Middle Mississippian culture
- Mississippian shatter zone
- Nancy Ward
- Native American tribes in Tennessee
- Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee)
- Rattlesnake Springs
- Red Clay State Historic Park
- Sam Houston and Native American relations
- Sellars Farm site
- Shiloh Indian Mounds Site
- South Appalachian Mississippian culture
- Stone box grave
- Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
- Tipton phase
- Toqua (Tennessee)
- Treaty of Holston
- Treaty of Tellico
- Treaty of Turkeytown
- Treaty of Tuscaloosa
- Tuskegee (Cherokee town)
- University of Tennessee Agriculture Farm Mound
- Wilderness Road
- Yuchi
Native American people from Tennessee
- Charles R. Hicks
- Conocotocko I
- Doublehead
- Leon Wagner
- Lyncoya Jackson
- Mary Jane Ross
- Nancy Ward
- Old Tassel
- Tagwadihi
- Turtle-at-Home
Native American women in warfare
- Buffalo Calf Road Woman
- Chief Earth Woman
- Cockacoeske
- Colestah
- Cuhtahlatah
- Dahteste
- Donna M. Loring
- Eagle Woman
- Ehyophsta
- Ghigau
- Gouyen
- Grace Thorpe
- Hanging Cloud
- Janequeo (lonco)
- Kaúxuma Núpika
- Kuilix
- La Malinche
- Lori Piestewa
- Lozen
- María de la Candelaria
- Margarita Neri
- Minnie Hollow Wood
- Minnie Spotted-Wolf
- Mitchelene BigMan
- Molly Brant
- Moving Robe Woman
- Nancy Ward
- Nonhelema
- Old-Lady-Grieves-the-Enemy
- One Who Walks with the Stars
- Polly Cooper
- Pretty Nose
- Princess Eréndira
- Quilago
- Running Eagle
- Tattooed Arm
- The Other Magpie
- Toby Riddle
- Tomasa Tito Condemayta
- Toypurina
- Tyonajanegen
- Weetamoo
- Woman Chief
- Xochitl (Toltec)
People from Chota (Cherokee town)
- Attakullakulla
- Conocotocko I
- Hanging Maw
- Nancy Ward
- Oconostota
People from pre-statehood Tennessee
- Amouskositte
- Andrew Jackson
- Anne Robertson Cockrill
- Conocotocko I
- Conocotocko II
- Dragging Canoe
- Gideon Morris
- Henry Timberlake
- James Robertson (explorer)
- John Donelson
- John Montgomery (pioneer)
- John Sevier
- John Tipton (Tennessee frontiersman)
- Joseph Hardin Sr.
- Kasper Mansker
- Moytoy of Tellico
- Nancy Ward
- Old Tassel
- Ostenaco
- Richard Henderson (jurist)
- Samuel Wear
- Savanukah
- Thomas Walker (explorer)
- Turtle-at-Home
- Valentine Sevier
- William Bean
People of Tennessee in the American Revolution
- Alexander Outlaw
- James Robertson (explorer)
- James White (general)
- John Crockett (frontiersman)
- John Donelson
- John Sevier
- Joseph Greer
- Joseph Hardin Sr.
- Joseph Martin (general)
- Nancy Ward
- Samuel Barton
- Valentine Sevier
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Ward
Also known as Agiyagustu, Ghi-ga-u, Ghi-gan, Ghigan, Nanye'hi, Nanye-hi, Tsistu-na-gis-ka.
, Savanukah, Seven Years' War, Shawnee, Skiagusta, Slavery, Tellico River, Tennessee, Theodore Roosevelt, Toccoa/Ocoee River, Treaty of Dewitt's Corner, Treaty of Hopewell, Wes Studi, William Bean.