The historic homelands of the cherokee are found in the Lake Erie and Lake Huron areas along the Canadian border. We have the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to thank for this information. They forced us to academically verify history, now we have. The Jesuit Relations of 1610 to 1791 provides church records of the Jesuit Priests documenting their missionary movement in New France. They meticulously document the people who would eventually become known as cherokee, the Erie. So much so was their attention to facts, they even documented that the Iroquoians referred to the Erie as those “without penis.”
Before the false narrative of the cherokee had begun to become fascinating folk lore, the truth was available, but few partook of the Facts, seeking to otherwise relish in the Whitewashed and Redwashed histories of hatred.
Those who Love truth, must also demonstrate it by shining a light on the hatred of falsehoods. Again, we wish to thank the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for showing us the need to have academic verification of our research. Even noted news journalist, Chuck Hamilton, identifies these people as having “Joined by other northern refugees, picking up others along the way, and assimilating the remnants of the Mississippian survivors in the areas they settled, the Richahechrian-Rickohockan were initially identified on maps as three separate groups: the Tchalaka, the Kituwagi, and the Taligui. After a few decades, they were known as the Cheraqui/Cherekay/Cherokee.” See Article https://the-chickamauga-nation.webflow.io/post/the-lost-nation-of-the-erie-by-chuck-hamilton-parts-1-2
It is without doubt that these Taligui/Kituwagi/Tchalaka/Cheraqui/Cherekay/Cherokee did NOT appear in the Southeast Woodlands prior to the late 1670s. Again, we wish to thank the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for forcing us to find this information.
In Paul Clements, Chronicles of the Cumberland Settlements 1779 – 1796, ISBN-13:978-1467541220 he quotes from a letter Alexander Long Received.
For our coming here, we know nothing but what was had from our ancestors, and brought down from generation to generation. We belonged to another land far distant from here, and the people increased and multiplied so fast that the land could not hold them. They were forced to separate and travel to look for another country. They travelled far, yet still going on they came to mountains of snow and ice. The priests held a council to pass the mountains. They believed there was a warmer weather on the other side of the mountains, because it lay near the sun setting, which was believed by the whole assembly.
We put (snowshoes) on our old and young, and passed on over the mountains. By the unseasonable cold and darkness that we went through, we lost a vast quantity of people on our journey over the mountains. We went through darkness, and then going on, we came to a country that could be inhabited. We brought all manner of grains such as corn, and peas, pumpkins, and musk melon. We found all sorts of wild fruit naturally growing. We multiplied so much that we spread over all this maine. When we first came on this maine, we were all one language, but the pride and ambition of some of them leading me separated the tribes from one another, and the language was corrupted. We are told by our ancestors that when we first came on this land, the priests and beloved men were writing, not on paper but on deer skins and on the shoulder bones of buffalo for several years, but the young people would not obey the priests. Their minds (were) after hunting wild beasts, so the writing was lost and could not be recovered.
Unnamed Cherokee
Circa 1716
(To Alexander Long)
Southeast Woodlands
This group of Taligui/Kituwagi/Tchalaka/Cheraqui/Cherekay/Cherokee begin to appear on French, Spanish, and English Maps in the early 1700s. They migrate South of the Ohio River along the Appalachians into modern Kentucky. They then make a 10-year land lease with the Henderson Land Company which has never reverted back to those whose lands it was for time immemorial. The Southeast Woodland Tribes held this land for hunting and fishing, it was never cherokee. This appears to be the cherokee method of operation, first, they move into a locale with which they have no historic ties, then they sell the lands, take the money and move on to their next prey.
They had no historic ties to the lands they sold. They had no mound culture burial sites with stone box graves on the land they sold. They had no mound culture religious sites on the land they sold. They had no mound culture because they were not of the mound culture. According the Jesuit Relations of 1610 to 1791, they were Christianized before they left the Great Lakes Region. They were not of the Southeast Woodlands and had no mound culture religion, customs, or traditions. They, much like Star Trek’s Borg, assimilated the customs and traditions of other tribes as they migrated south after being forced out of the Iroquoian Confederacy. They are NOT of the Southeast, they are not Tiscamogie, they are not Chickamauga.
The Ancient Mound Culture Religion, customs, and traditions, made it illegal to sell the communal lands of the Mound people. The Southeast Ceremonial Religious Cult forbid the practice with the punishment of death being demanded. The attitudes of the cherokee were on full display as they became appeasers to the wishes of the colonies because this was NOT their land, they too were immigrants to the land. They acquiesced to the whims of the colonists, even when the Treaties they signed with the Chickamauga, allowed them to protect their homelands by killing those who illegally crossed the Appalachians and squatted on their lands. They protected the illegals while the Chickamauga protected that which was theirs. Then in true cherokee fashion, they give up more lands of the Southeast Woodlands to the colonies for more money.
The cherokee were ultimately selling so much land, that the Chickamauga, the Tiscamogie, the Red Stick Cherokee began to migrate away from their homelands to a new land West of the Mississippi River in Arkansas which was controlled by the Spanish. As early as the 1770s Chickamauga were living West of the Mississippi in modern Missouri and Arkansas. Later a land trade treaty was given to the Chickamauga by President Thomas Jefferson in 1809. Then in 1817 and 1819 additional Treaties were codified giving the Chickamauga a homelands West of the Mississippi. The Chickamauga in Council in 1824 adopted an ancient law forbidding the sale or trade of lands with the United Sates under penalty of death. They were not going to lose their lands again if and when the cherokee migrated into their lands as before.