Confederation · approximate1600 – 1838 · 238 years

Cherokee

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Cherokee. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Confederation

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Waldman Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians
SNAPSHOT1760
MATCHEDUnited States/Canada
POLITY TYPEconfederation

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Battle of Fort Loudoun1760
Regional
Battle of Fort Prince George1760
Regional
Republic of Texas frontier conflicts1836–45
Regional
Battle of Etchoe1760
Minor
Battle of Etchoe1761
Minor

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1600 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Cherokee (1600 – 1838). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/cherokee · Sources & methodology