Chickamauga Cherokee

The Chickamauga Cherokee, also known as the Lower Cherokee, sre a band of Cherokee who support Great Britain at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Followers of the Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe, in the winter of 1776/1777, they move with him down the Tennessee River away from the historic Overhill Cherokee towns.

In this more isolated area, they establish almost a dozen new towns to gain distance from colonists' encroachment.

The frontier people often refer to the people as "Chickamaugas," after the name of the new town on the Chickamauga River where Dragging Canoe resides.After the Cherokee move further west and southwest five years later, they are more commonly known as the "Lower Cherokee," after the "Five Lower Towns," whose people originally formed the new settlement.

Neither they nor other Cherokee consider them separate from the 19th-century Cherokee people.

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