. Bulletin. Ethnology. Antheop. Pap. No. THE EASTERN CHEROKEES—GILBERT 179 After the removal of 1838 only fragmentary remnants of the Val- ley and Middle Settlements were left. The numerous branch creeks along the Valley River sheltered small groups until quite recent times. The upper reaches of the Cheowa River and its branches—Buffalo Creek, Santeetlah Creek, the Snowbird River, Little Snowbird Creek, and others—were the sites of a cluster of settlements up until quite re- cently. This was called the Graham County group. The damming of the Cheowa River and the formation of Lake Santeetlah ha
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Antheop. Pap. No. THE EASTERN CHEROKEES—GILBERT 179 After the removal of 1838 only fragmentary remnants of the Val- ley and Middle Settlements were left. The numerous branch creeks along the Valley River sheltered small groups until quite recent times. The upper reaches of the Cheowa River and its branches—Buffalo Creek, Santeetlah Creek, the Snowbird River, Little Snowbird Creek, and others—were the sites of a cluster of settlements up until quite re- cently. This was called the Graham County group. The damming of the Cheowa River and the formation of Lake Santeetlah has in. Figure 36.—The Cherokee settlements, 1762-1776. recent times done away with habitation sites for all of the groups in this region save those on Buffalo Creek West and Little Snowbird Creek. By far the largest and most important of the remnantal Cherokee groups after the removal were those clustering around the juncture of the Ocona and Tuckaseegee Rivers near the old settlement of Kituhwa in the heart of the old Middle Settlements. With the ex- ception of the "Thomas 3,200 acre tract" along the east and west slopes of a ridge south of the Tuckaseegee, all of this group is settled along the axis of the Ocona River and its tributaries in what was. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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