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The land of the Cherokees

Photographs of Cherokee leaders:

Files are named according to the year in which I estimate the original image was created. Click on the back button of your browser to return to this page. Numbers indicate file size and loading time. These photographs can be copied onto floppy disks or hard drives, and printed with laser printers.

  1. 1730.jpg 83kb - Cherokees who visited England in 1730
  2. 1756.jpg 39kb - War Chief Ostenaco visited England in 1762.
  3. 1762.jpg 36kb - Chief Cumnacatogue visited England in 1762
  4. 1812.jpg 51kb - John Drew, veteran of the Creek war of 1813 and Civil War colonel.
  5. 1813.jpg 26kb - Kahnungdatlageh, assasinated for agreeing to move Cherokees West.
  6. 1839.jpg 28kb - John Ridge, assasinated for the same reason as his father Kahnungdatlageh
  7. 1866.jpg 92kb - L to R: John Rollin Ridge (son of John Ridge), Saladin Watie (son of Chief Takertawker), Richard Fields, Elias C. Boudinot, and William Penn Adair, Southern Cherokee delegates to Washington in 1866.
  8. 1862.jpg 29kb - Chief Takertawker ("to stand firm"), nephew of Kahnungdatlageh and a Confederate Brigider General who refused to surrender until two months after Lee did.
  9. 1868.jpg 36kb Saladin Ridge Watie, son of Takertawker, enlisted in the Confederate service at fifteen and rose to the rank of captain in his father's Confederate Indian brigade. He was cited for exceptional bravery by Gen. D.H. Cooper at the 1864 attack on Union forces at Fort Smith AR. He served on the Southern Cherokee delegation to Washington in 1866.
  10. 1828.jpg 24kb - John Ross, 1/8 Cherokee by blood and chief of the Eastern Cherokees
  11. 1840.jpg 31kb - Tahchee, a Western Cherokee chief who refused to move from Arkansas to the Indian Territory.
  12. 1841.jpg 20kb - David Vann, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation in the 1840's
  13. 1865.jpg 32kb - Joseph Vann, delegate to Washington DC on tribal business.