1793

Sevier renews attacks on Cherokee towns

Tennessee region; Chickamauga Cherokee communities

Settler forces invaded and destroyed towns despite federal objections. The episode illustrates the gap between nominal treaty protections and the enforcement available to Native communities.

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Context / qualification

Federal and settler interests sometimes conflicted; avoid treating them as identical in every instance.

Sources

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

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