Chickamauga (tribe)

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There is not and never was a separate tribe called Chickamauga, though the myth that there was became popular in certain circles in the 1990's. "Chickamauga", or "Chickamauga-Cherokee", was a term used by colonial and early Americans to differentiate between the pro-British Cherokee led by Dragging Canoe using their location to identify them as they did the rest of the Cherokee, and those abiding by the peace treaties signed in 1777 at DeWitt's Corner with Georgia and South Carolina and at Fort Henry with Virginia and North Carolina, allegedly ending Cherokee support of the British in the American Revolution living in the Out, Middle, and Valley Towns of North Carolina, the Lower Towns of North Georgia (formerly of South Carolina), and the Overhill Towns along the lower Little Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers in the later State of Tennessee

The Chickamauga wars were actually a continuation of the Cherokee struggle against the encroachment of the colonials which had broken out into open warfare in 1776. For further information see the article on the Chickamauga Wars.