1788

John Sevier’s attack on Chickamauga towns

Tennessee region; Cherokee communities

Sevier’s forces attacked towns, killing residents and driving survivors south. The episode shows settlers using force to create territorial facts even where federal officials professed restraint.

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Context / qualification

Dunbar-Ortiz reports thirty villagers killed.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 5

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