A list of Tennessee’s tribes or nations Aganahali Named on French maps in the early 18 th century, these occupied approximately the same area as the occupied by the Quizquiz of De Soto’s chroniclers. Chalahume One of the towns encountered by the Spanish in the 16 th century, it was probably located in the same place as the later Cherokee town of Citico. One of the Cherokee towns in the late ... (click for more)
Wars and rumors of wars Certainly by the dawn of the 18 th century, the Rechaherian/Richohokan/Cherokee, who had for some time occupied the mountains of the North Carolina-East Tennessee border and the headwaters of the Savannah River, had spread to the Little Tennessee Valley and Tellico ... (click for more)
A Time of Great Tribulation Sociologist Henry F. Dobyns estimates that nearly 145 million people inhabited the Western Hemisphere in 1490. By 1600, disease, disruption, and drastic climate change left a population of a mere 1.5 million, a drop of 98.97%. The Valley of ... (click for more)
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The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City , by Benjamin Houston, is the winner of the 2012 Tennessee History Book Award, presented annually by ... (click for more)
First Contact The first Europeans to encounter the Indians of Tennessee, of course, were the Spanish would-be conquistadors of the 16 th century. The expedition of Hernando ... (click for more)
The Signal Mountain Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, at the Walden Town Hall, 1836 Taft Highway. The meeting will begin with refreshments followed ... (click for more)
Should the Boy Scouts of America have changed its policy to allow gay youths in the Scouts?
