p.s.s. - Here is a link to some of our tribe's history:
http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/inada/chickamauga/                                                                     
p.s. - Our tribe in Kentucky fought on the side of the Americans against
the British and the main group of Cherokee in the US Revolutionary War.
                                                                     
Kip King wrote in alt.native:
These were the ancestors of my tribe, the Upper Cumberland River
Cherokee Indians of Kentucky. In 1805, when the last of our tribal land
in Kentucky was sold by fraudulent treaty, we were given the option of
moving south with the rest of the tribe, or remaining as individuals on
individual pieces of land. My ancestors chose to stay.

fish@digitalcave.com wrote in alt.native:

One element often ignored by researchers is the presence of Cherokee
who NEVER WERE part of the Cherokee "Nation" per se (the 1835 "paper"
Nation established by Ross and his cronies).  There were large    
numbers of what were called "Overhill Cherokees" who'd gone over the
mountains and down into Kentucky and Tennesee, and it's well    
documented that some of them were there as early as the 1700's (the 
U.S. even signed treaties with some of them!).  They WERE fully
Cherokee, but they were isolated enough from the bulk of the Nation 
that many things passed them by (Ross's 1835 Nation didn't include
them, for example.... and the pre-Removal census didn't include them,
nor were any attempts made to Remove them in 1838).
Wade Wofford