Timeline


 * 8,000 BC - the first evidence of people in the Appalachia
 * 5,000 BC - Cherokee begin to hunt with Atlatls and grow gourds
 * 2,000 BC - Cherokee becomes a new language
 * 1,000 BC - the Cherokee make permanent settlements along rivers and start making pottery
 * 500 - the Cherokee begin to hunt with bows and their towns become more developed with a central house on a mound for the Chief
 * 800 - Cherokee women begin to grow corn
 * 1200 - beans and squash are added to the crops grown
 * 1540 - The first European contact made was the Desoto expedition made by the Spanish on the Tennessee River.
 * 1629 - Traders from English settlements begin trading with the Cherokees.
 * 1721 - The governor of the Carolina s issues the Cherokee Treaty. It is thought to be the first confession of land.
 * 1785 - the first treaty, the Treaty of Hopewell, is made between the U.S and Cherokees