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. My dad has, and I
will eventually inherit, about thirty acres of Cherokee land at
Rockholds, KY that has never been out of Indian hands.
 
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 did were any attempts
> made to Remove them in 1838).
> Wade Wofford