Official Cherokee Nation Website

Official Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation Website

In 1993, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law officially  recognizing three groups as "legitimate American Indian tribes of  Georgia"--the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee, Lower Muscogee Creek  Tribe, and Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council (OCGA sec. 44-12-300).   Other than the name, the only identity of each named group provided  in the law was its address.

However, four organizations each claim to be the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee recognized in OCGA sec. 44-12-300. One of these  is incorporated and has a web site (shown below). The Carl Vinson Institute of Government is making no judgment on the  relative claims of each organization. We simply will provide links to the web sites of any of the organizations that have educational information on Georgia Cherokee Indians.

Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee Website

Cherokee Indians of Georgia, Inc.

Cherokee National Historical Society

Cherokee Heritage Center

Cherokee Cultural Society

Museum of the Cherokee Indian

New Echota Historic Site

Trail of Tears

History of the Cherokee

Cherokee Phoenix (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

U.S. Treaties with Georgia Cherokees

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831)

Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832)

U.S. Senate Debate on Cherokee Removal

1836 Letter from John Ross to Congress protesting the Treaty of New Echota

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Historical Background for "Where the Deer Ran"

Sequoyah Birthplace Museum

The Genius of Sequoyah

Chief John Ross

Chief Vann House Historic Site

Ross's Landing Historical Marker (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Confederate Gen. Stand Watie

Chieftans Museum

Chieftans Trail

The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics. (book review)

1830 Georgia Map Showing Cherokee Nation

History of Cherokee County, GA

Cherokee Indians in North Georgia

Cherokee Indians (NativeAmericans.com)
 
 

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