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-Traditionally no tribal government or chief held authority over all the Cherokees. But in 1721 South Carolina colonists succeeded in persuading the Cherokees to choose a principal chief for the entire tribe to negotiate selling some of its hunting grounds.
-After the French and Indian War the British tried to ban any further white settlement on Native American lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. But colonists kept moving into Cherokee and other Indian lands.
-During the American Revolution the Cherokees sided with the British. A colonial army attacked and destroyed 50 Cherokee towns. After the revolution many Americans considered the Cherokees a conquered people and forced them to give up thousands of square miles of hunting grounds. Suddenly the traditional ways and even survival of the Cherokee tribe were threatened.
-After the French and Indian War the British tried to ban any further white settlement on Native American lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. But colonists kept moving into Cherokee and other Indian lands.
-During the American Revolution the Cherokees sided with the British. A colonial army attacked and destroyed 50 Cherokee towns. After the revolution many Americans considered the Cherokees a conquered people and forced them to give up thousands of square miles of hunting grounds. Suddenly the traditional ways and even survival of the Cherokee tribe were threatened.