This Is How It Was: The Two Views of History

A proud nation of people who thrived on North American land through agriculture and unity, a people that fought for their independence and freedoms from invading tyrannical powers. The tax ridden and repressed colonists—no, but instead the Cherokee Nation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains area. The Cherokee (known by themselves as the Aniyunwiya or Tsalagi) were accomplished agriculturalists and were a thriving settlement when Desoto’s expedition discovered them in the 1540s. After the …

…to put in their new government of elected officials, which did not mix with the old ways of the Cherokee. Cherokee Civil War erupted in the spring of 1839 and would last for a long six years. The U.S. stepped in and the three sides developed a treaty in which the new Cherokee Nation would be recognized. The Cherokee golden age would then carry them on through the 1850s until another famous Civil war began.