User talk:Emilyheartzhim

Please disregared the following... it is a history project and i needed a way to get it from home to school.

Nanih Waiya- An ancient earthwork mound in Winston county Mississippi/Choctaw

Tuscaloosa- It’s in Alabama, it took its name from “tushka, lusa” (Warrior, Black) A Choctaw Indian chief

Pushmataha- Choctaw Indian General

Natchez Trace- a 440 mile long path from Natchez, Mississippi too Nashville Tennessee. It was used as a trade route and a travel route.

Greenwood Leflore- A mixed leader of the Choctaw who was also elected state legislature and senator in Mississippi.

Mushulatubbe- principal chief of the Choctaw during the Choctaw removal.

Matrilineal- a system in which lineage is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors

Muscogee Confederation- also known as Creeks

William Weatherford- A Creek who led the Creek war against the U.S.

William McIntosh- Known as “White Warrior” a member of a famous Savannah, Georgia family. Sent in the Creek nation to recruit for Revolutionary War.

Red Sticks- English term for a traditionalist fraction of Creek Indians who led a resistance movement

Fort Mims Massacre- occurred on August 39 1813 when the Creek people killed hundreds of settlers, mixed-blood Creeks, and militia at Fort Mims, Alabama.

Battle of Horseshoe Bend- a battle fought by the US. And the Red Sticks.

Andrew Jackson- The 7th president of the United States during Indian removal.

Nunne Chaha- A great hill/Creek

Dragging Canoe- Indian leader who led a rebel band of Cherokees against the US in the revolutionary war.

Overhill Towns- Cherokee settlements in Tennessee

Chickamaugas-a diverse group of Cherokees, Creeks, dissatisfied whites, and African Americans who blocked white settlement in Tennessee for about nineteen years.

Major Ridge- A Cherokee Indian leader and protégé

John Ross- Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation,1828-1860

James Vann- Part Cherokee, part Scottish, son of a fur trader

Elias Boudinot- born into an important Cherokee Family in Georgia. Nephew of Major Ross

Worcester v. Georgia- a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that Cherokee Native Americans were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty.

John Ridge- son of Major Ridge/ Cherokee

Stand Watie- a leader of the Cherokee nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Sequayah- Creator of the Cherokee syllabary

Cherokee Phoenix- A newspaper published by Cherokee Indians

Osceola- a leader of the Seminole in Florida He led a small group of warriors in the Seminole resistance during the Second Seminole War when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands

Billy Bowlegs- a leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second and Third Seminole Wars. He was one of the last Seminole leaders to resist, he eventually moved to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

Wildcat- Seminole chief during the later stages of the Second Seminole War

Blak Seminoles-

James Colbert-

Cholera- A Bad Stomach Virus

Small Pox-A Disease similar to chicken pox

Robert Love-

Winfield Scott-

Upper Creeks- They lived in Alabama

Lower Creeks- They lived in Georgia

Old Settlers-

Trail of Tears-

Tecumseh-

Muscogean Linguistic Group-

Iroquoian Linguistic Group-

--Emilyheartzhim (talk) 04:11, 17 February 2010 (UTC) BY EMILY GRAYSON!!!!