1776

Revolutionary forces devastate Cherokee towns

Southern Appalachians; Cherokee people

Thousands of troops from southern colonies burned settlements and crops and killed noncombatants. The campaign tied the war for American independence to continued Indigenous dispossession.

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Context / qualification

The campaign followed Cherokee attacks on settlements; both chronology and power relationships matter.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4

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