New Echota Cherokee Capital | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Between 1825 and 1838 New Echota was the capital of the Cherokee Nation, whose land during that time extended throughout the region of northwest Georgia (covering ten Georgia counties today), as well as parts of Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina. After the American Revolution, white settlers increasingly intruded onto Indian lands west of the fall line and ultimately succeeded in pressuring the new federal government to fulfill its promise to remove the Indians entirely from these western lands. Much of the territory was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations. The issues of land distribution and Indian removal informed a notorious chapter in Georgia history extending from the Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795 to the Trail of Tears in 1838.

During this period, the Cherokees in north Georgia responded to rapidly changing conditions by adapting to the white settlers’ way of life. They organized their tribal groups into a Cherokee Nation and began to m...