TCN - A Non-Terminated, Federally Recognized Treaty Tribe
As a Federally Recognized Treaty Tribe, The Chickamauga Nation is non-incorporated and non-terminated who absolutely rejects in its entirety the colonial system of governance forced upon American Indian Tribes under U.S.C. 25 as perpetrated under the guise of the Bureau of Indian Affairs the subsidiary of the Department of Interior as well as its “hang around the fort allies,” which has fervently sought to ethnically cleanse the Traditionalist Chickamauga from this continent. The Chickamauga Nation refuse to acknowledge the constitutional legitimacy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which itself exists as the genocidal remnants of the War Department, in that this agency is illegitimate as it is itself in violation of the Treaty Rights guaranteeing the rights and privileges of direct access to as well as being expressly enumerated to be under the singular authority of the Senate of the United States, not any other branch of the United States government.
The Chickamauga Nation will only operate under the absolute legal authority of the more than 20 Treaties which have been signed with the United States Senate in accordance with Article 6 Section 2 of the United States Constitution and only then stipulate that all rights not expressly negotiated in writing to the United States in Treaty are retained by The Chickamauga Nation who are direct heirs and descendants of the original signers of those Treaties. The Chickamauga are of the Mound Building Culture, of the Southeast Ceremonial Complex, of the Traditional people, of the Lower Towns identified by George Washington during his Fourth Annual Address to Congress on November 8, 1792. The Chickamauga who are wrongly identified as Cherokee by this government for the sake of expediency because the Commissioners of the Senate and the Secretary of the War Department along with his soldiers did not understand the difference between the linguistics of those who spoke the Cherokee Trade Language and their ethnicity while these same Americas claimed ethnic background and identity from all over Europe but still spoke English as though they were still subjects of the British Crown.
The Chickamauga are not Cherokee nor have they ever claimed to be Cherokee. They were always identified as Mound Builders, Lower Town Chickamauga or Chickamauga. Their identity was confused with the Cherokee because they both spoke variants of the Cherokee Trade Language. The Europeans were quick to lump all Indians into groups based on linguistics because it allowed them deal with fewer Tribes and Tribal Leaders while forcing everyone to submit to their colonial ideals of the Doctrine of Discovery. The Europeans knew from their own history in the New World that everyone who spoke a dialect of a language was not ethnically tied to that language. Americans, Irish, Scottish, Welch, Saxon, Danes and British all spoke a dialect of English, but they were not all citizens of the British Crown. Spanish, Mexican, Cubans, Hondurans, Panamanians, Californians, and Texans speak Spanish, but that does not mean they all are citizens of the Spanish Crown. It is the same as those who spoke the Indian Trade Languages of Iroquoian and Cherokee, not all who spoke these languages were ethnically affiliated to those tribes.
The Chickamauga are the Tisca of the Muskogean era, the Tisca-Mogie or commonly known as the Chickamauga as identified in numerous archaeological digs and research studies in the Lower Tennessee River Valley. Archaeology identifies the Chickamauga as an established people group in the Southeast part of the United States from between 600 and 800 CE. The culture and religion are expressed in the Mound Building Culture which was demonstrated in the Cahokia, Spiro, Etowa, and hundreds of other Mound Complexes existing between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains while their distinct ties are best realized in the Southeast Ceremonial Complex which was the combination of their culture, religion, and government which is historically shared with their first cousins, the Choctaw, Muskogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Seminole, and Natchez.
The Lower Towns existed long before the names of Attakullakulla or Amatoya Moytoy (Moitoi) graced the Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia region and was involved in signing Treaties with the British Colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina as early as 1684. The complexity of the history of the Chickamauga was muddied and remains muddied by the myths and legends recounted by Royce and Moody through their acceptance of oral histories over the archaeological and historical facts which were mostly available to them when they worked on anthropology for the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institute which has itself failed to correct the salacious and damnable lies perpetuated by their refusal to admit to historic and archaeologic evidence to the contrary. Anthropological academia fails to correct the history of the Chickamauga because it invalidates most of the research used to garner their PhDs and discredits the entire field of Native American anthropology in the Southeast.
The Chickamauga were exceptional traders, hunters, fishers, gatherers, farmers, and ranchers who were able to set a high standard of trade due to their ability to speak multiple languages and travel vast distances, rapidly. Their use of Trade Languages, both Mobillian and Cherokee, allowed them to be successful in their dealings with other Mound Culture locations as well as trade for items along the vast waterways throughout the interior of the continent. It is also the use of the Cherokee Trade Language which has been the most problematic for the Chickamauga in promoting their cultural identity separate from the Cherokee.
As early as the 1780s the Chickamauga were migrating from the southeast, mountainous, woodlands to west of the Mississippi River into the modern states of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Kansas under the protection of Spain, then France, and finally the United States in 1803. In 1809, as the Executive branch of the United States, President Thomas Jefferson, initiated a Land Trade Treaty with the Chickamauga, where he formally traded lands east of the Mississippi River for lands west of the Mississippi River, establishing their government west of the Mississippi River near modern day, Dardanelle, Arkansas, overseeing about 13,000,000 acres according to the US geological survey in 1820. In 1817, the Chickamauga Chiefs, who traded lands in Treaty with Thomas Jefferson, were the sole signatories of 7 Stat 156 which created and established the Arkansas Chickamauga Reservation through legislative language and was then re-affirmed through legislative language in 7 Stat 195 of 1819. In 1828, the legislative language of 7 Stat 311 effectively ended the Arkansas Chickamauga Reservation and moved the Chickamauga to their new Treaty lands in Indian Territory. Upon moving to Indian Territory, the Chickamauga west of the Mississippi moved their capital from near Dardanelle, Arkansas to Tahlonteeskee, Indian Territory, modern day Gore, Oklahoma, and continued leading their people who had already begun to move further west and south out of their continued distrust of the governments of the United States, states, and territories.
While most of the focus was on the Chickamauga west of the Mississippi, a large contingency of Lower Town Chickamauga remained east of the Mississippi retaining the traditional ways of life on the lands that they had acquired and retained. This group of Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors along with their families retained a highly established identity as not only Chickamauga, but they also possessed the identity as the Cherokee Nation. This is because since 1785 the “Cherokee Nation” Treaties are signed exclusively by Lower Town Chickamauga Chiefs or the overwhelming majority of the signers were Lower Town Chickamauga Chiefs. Even the 1817 and 1819 two signature page Treaties representing the “Cherokee” east of the Mississippi was almost exclusively signed by Lower Town Chickamauga Chiefs while all of the signers for the west of the Mississippi River were exclusively Chickamauga. The facts are facts and they are not disputable unless you want to continue the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Chickamauga. While they spoke different dialects of the Cherokee Trade Language, the Chickamauga are ethnically, culturally, socially, and religiously from the Southeast Ceremonial Complex of the Mound Building Culture while the “Cherokee” are from the Great Lakes region between Lake Huron and Lake Erie and did not migrate into the Southeast until the mid-1670s after they were expelled from the Iroquoian Confederacy after the Beaver Wars.
Conspiracy to Commit Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Authoritative, legislative language is held in the most sacrosanct esteem in judicial circles as of late which must be used to shed light on the legislative language of 7 Stat 478 of 1835. The preamble states the John Ross faction of the Cherokee refused to accept the Treaty in February of 1835 while he was in Washington DC and the Commissioners from the Senate took the Treaty to the Lower Town Chickamauga Chiefs who did sign the treaty with the inclusion that this Treaty would be for them to go be with their forefathers on their lands and that they would be allowed to have their own government and be under the protection of the United States government. With these stipulations inserted, the Treaty was affirmed by the people and signed on December 29, 1835. Many of the Chickamauga east of the Mississippi immediately began preparations to go to join their forefathers at Tahlonteeskee in Indian Territory.
Peace in the legitimate, legislative language, of 7 Stat 478 authorized government lasted until June of 1839 when John Ross began a genocidal extermination of the Chickamauga leadership which sent hundreds of Chickamauga fleeing in a newly forced diaspora. Within the matter of a few days in June and July of 1839, the government and lands promised through Treaty were taken in a Coup d’état allowed by the United States and then rewarded by the United States. What was to be expected when you place two separate and distinct people groups on one piece of land where one is given the rights and privileges of governing and the other used their brute force to over through the right and legitimate government. There is no justification by the United States or the Cherokee Nation of John Ross of the genocidal Coup d’état initiated against the Chickamauga in 1839. The Chickamauga were not Old Settler Cherokee, they were Chickamauga. The Chickamauga were not Western Cherokee, they were Chickamauga. They never changed their name, the United States government and the Cherokee Nation of John Ross changed the name of the Chickamauga to ethnically cleanse them from the face of this planet.
The Chickamauga never agreed to have their lands and government taken from them by the John Ross’ genocidal Coup d’état or the United States sanctioned genocidal Coup d’état, but the facts remain the same: The name of the Chickamauga was changed, the United States government and John Ross’s Cherokee Nation forced, at gunpoint, the “Old Settlers” and “Western Cherokee” who did not have legitimate, legislative language, authority under 7 Stat 478 to go to arbitration to sign 9 Stat 821 of 1845 which is not a Treaty, it is arbitration. No matter how this is “whitewashed” or “redwashed,” no matter how history is re-interpreted, no matter what is said after the fact, the Treaties are Treaties and the rights of the Chickamauga signatories did not grant the right to the United State or the Cherokee Nation of John Ross to abrogate 7 Stat 311, 7 Stat 413, or 7 Stat 478.
While the Chickamauga were disbursed throughout this continent as their ancestors were the victims of a genocide and ethnic cleansing culminating in a diaspora not only of their people, but their culture, traditions, and faith to a point as to where they can barely document their history without suffering the protracted trauma inflicted upon their ancestors at the hands of this government and her willing allied accomplices, the Cherokee Nation. This scattering to the four winds of the people of The Chickamauga Nation might have been successful except for one thing: The blood of a Chickamauga is never extinguished or diluted and that same blood carries the DNA of the most feared of the traditionalist warriors to paddle canoes and raid in silent terror. The small gatherings of Chickamauga families and friends which have been held all over this country for over 200 years continues the ancient fires of the Mound Culture taught in the Southeast Ceremonial Complex continues to govern the Chickamauga and provides them with a continuous government since before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
This ethnic cleansing continues today in that The Chickamauga Nation, a Federally Recognized Treaty Tribe, is excluded from the List of Federally Recognized Tribes determined to be eligible for benefits and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This one act of ethnic cleansing alone accounts for the intentional annihilation of one of the most feared and hated groups of people to ever live on this continent by failing to provide the rights and benefits guaranteed to them through Treaty. The government of the United States, by failing to honor its moral, ethical, and legal obligations to The Chickamauga Nation has denied healthcare, education, housing, agricultural, production, manufacturing, and small business benefits which has led to abject poverty, loss of life, deplorable living conditions, and denial of the most basic of civil rights including freedom of Religion, Freedom of petition, and the treaty rights of meeting with the congress at a time of the choosing of the Chickamauga.
Therefore; the United States has gone on record as encouraging and supporting the genocide and ethnic cleansing of The Chickamauga Nation and its Citizens. The Cherokee Nation has gone on record as encouraging and supporting the genocide and ethnic cleansing of The Chickamauga Nation and its Citizens. Who will come to the support and aid of The Chickamauga Nation today? The United States Senate will not come to the aid of The Chickamauga Nation because both parties get way too much money in campaign donations from their accomplice, the Cherokee Nation. The United States Senate cannot come to our aid because they would have to admit to the world that they sanctioned a genocide and a continued ethnic cleansing of The Chickamauga Nation and would be legally liable for damages. The Cherokee Nation cannot come to our aid because they would have to admit to the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and would be legally liable for damages. So, who will come to the aid of the Chickamauga? It will not be the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) since they were founded by the Chief of the Cherokee Nation, J. B. Milam? So, who will take a stand and come to the aid of The Chickamauga Nation?