List of Fraudulent Cherokee/Chickamuaga's

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Originally posted by john_cornsilk


Following that is the Nationwide list of wannabees they are in 29 states, with Geroria leading the list, the place where the Cherokee were driven from, , Fl next with 23, Then Mo 20,

The Short list of chickamuka :

White River band of the Chickamauga Cherokee Nation, Waldzon California

Sac River and White River Bands of the Chickamauga Indian Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, Fair Play, Letter 9/5/91

Echota Chickamauga Cherokee Tribe of New Jersey, Irvington

Northern Chickamauga Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, Miami, Letter 9/5/91

Free Cherokee-Chickamauga, Chesne Tennessee

Chickamauga Circle of Free Cherokee, Chattanooga

Echota Cherokee Tribe

Elk Valley Band-Council of Chickamauga Cherokee, Estill

Free Cherokees, Chickamaugan Circle, Ooltewah

Tennessee River Band of Chickamauga Cherokee, Chickamauga Station

Free Cherokee Tennessee River Band of Chickamauga, Jasper

Texas Buffalo Bayou Band of Chickamaugan Cherokee, Southern Cherokee Nation


Alabama
1. Cherokee Nation of Alabama, Birmingham, Letter 2/16/99
2. Cherokees of Jackson County, Higdon
3. Cherokees of Northeast Alabama, Birmingham, State Recognized, Letter 9/23/81
4. Cherokees of Northeast Alabama, Collinsville
5. Cherokees of Southeast Alabama, Dothan, State Recognized, Letter, 5/27/88
6. Cherokees of Southeast Alabama, Hoover
7. Cherokee River Indian Community, Moulton, Letter 8/3/00
8. Cherokee Trust, Alexander City
9. Echota Cherokee Nation, Decatur, State Recognized
10. Echota Cherokee Tribe, Birmingham
11. Echota Cherokee of Alabama, Sylacauga
12. Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, Maylene
13. Free Cherokees, Eagle Bear Clan, Hamilton
14. Langley Band of Cherokee Indians in the Southeastern United States, Letter
4/15/94, Petitioned 1/11/95
15. North Alabama Cherokees, Creek Path/Willtown District, Scottsboro
16. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Fox Clan, Huntsville
17. United Cherokee Intertribal, Guntersville
18. United Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, Daleville
19. United Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, Midland City

Alaska
1. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Big Lake
2. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Kenai
Arizona
1. Cherokee Family Ties, Mesa

Arkansas
1. Arkansas Band of Western Cherokees, Mountain Home, Letter 4/7/98
2. Arkansas River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
3. Buffalo River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
4. Chickamauga Cherokee Nation, Green Forest
5. Free Cherokees, Helena
6. Free Cherokees, Arkansas Bear Tribe Band, Mountain Home
7. Free Cherokees, Dung Beetle Society, Portland
8. Free Cherokees, Good Medicine Band, Hot Springs
9. Lost Cherokee of Arkansas and Missouri, Jonesboro, Letter 2/10/99
10. Neches Tribe-Cherokee Nation, Hot Springs
11. Northern Cherokee Nation, Fayetteville
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 16 of 26
12. Old Settler Cherokee Nation of Arkansas, Timbo, Letter 9/17/99
13. Ozark Mountain Cherokee Tribe of Arkansas and Missouri, Melbourne, Letter
10/19/99
14. Western Arkansas Cherokee Tribe, Midway
15. Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, Paragould, Letter 5/1/98
16. White River Band of Northern Cherokee Indians, Fayetteville
17. White River band of the Chickamauga Cherokee Nation, Waldzon

California
1. Ani-Yun-Wiya Society, Bakersfield
2. Cherokees of California, Inc. Marysville
3. Cherokee Seven Clans Council, Bakersfield
4. Free Cherokees, Sutter Creek
5. Running Water Cherokee Indians, Bakersfield
6. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Buffalo Clan
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Manzanita Band, Redding

Colorado
1. Echota Cherokee, Denver

Connecticut
1. Free Cherokees, Madison
2. Free Cherokees, Moon Band, Groton
3. Free Cherokees, Snake Band, Oakville

Florida
1. Amonsquath Tribe of Cherokees, Bear Clan, DeFuniak Springs
2. E-Chota Cherokee Tribe of Florida, Sneads
3. E-Chota Cherokee Indian Tribe of Florida, DeFuniak Springs
4. Free Cherokees, National Veterans Band, DeLand
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 17 of 26
5. South Florida Cherokee Band, Bowling Green
6. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Orlando
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Jacksonville
8. Southeastern Cherokee, Confederacy, Sarasota
9. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Sebring
10. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Bear Clan, Orlando
11. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Beaver Clan, Ft. Walton Beach
12. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Blue Clan, Sebring
13. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Crow Band, Ocala
14. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Long Hair Band, Tallahassee
15. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Many Lakes Band, Wachula
16. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Pine Knot Clan, Tarpon
17. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Rattlesnake Band, Bradenton
18. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Turtle Clan, Jacksonville
19. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Wild Potato Clan, Gainesville
20. Southeastern Cherokee and Creek Tribe, Orange Springs
21. Southern Band of Cherokees, Deland
22. Tchlaki Croatan Nation, Pompano
23. Tuscola United Cherokee Tribe of Florida and Alabama, Geneva, Letter 1/19/79,

Georgia
1. American Cherokee Confederacy, Leesburg
2. American Cherokee Council, Ochloknee
3. Bird Clan of the Northwest Cherokee Wolf Band, Albany
4. Cane Break Band of Eastern Cherokees, Dahlonega, Letter 1/9/79, Withdrew
7/16/97
5. Chattahoochee Valley Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 18 of 26
6. Cherokees of Georgia, Hilliard
7. Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Council, Scottsdale, State Recognized
8. Cherokee Indians of Georgia, Columbus
9. Cherokee Indians of Georgia Inc., Albany, Letter 8/8/77, Petitioned 6/11/96
10. Chickamauga Cherokee Band of Northwest Georgia, Rossville
11. Dahlonega Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation, Dahlonega
12. Etowah Cherokee Nation, Quitman
13. Free Cherokees, Ball Ground
14. Free Cherokees, Marietta
15. Free Cherokees, Good Medicine Band, Cummings
16. Free Cherokees, Good Medicine Society, Mableton
17. Free Cherokees, Turtle Clan, Atlanta
18. Free Cherokees of Northwest Georgia, Rossville
19. Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee, Dahlonega, State Recognized, Letter, 1/9/79,
Petitioned 2/5/80
20. Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee, Inc., Dawsonville
21. Ossahatchee Creek Band, Etowah District, Southern Cherokee Nation
22. Pearl River Band, Etowah District, Southern Cherokee Nation
23. Southern Band of Cherokees and Creeks, Ellijay
24. Southeast Kituwah Nation, Wayatali Uku, Warner Robins
25. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Adel
26. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Lake Park
27. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Ocklocknee
28. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Sylvester
29. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Thomasville
30. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Valdosta
31. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Bird Clan, Waycross
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 19 of 26
32. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Dear Clan, Quitman
33. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Eagle Clan, Albany
34. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Fire Clan, Macon
35. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Holly Clan, Dearing
36. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Inc., Leesburg, Petitioned 3/9/78, Rejected
11/25/85
37. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Lower Etowah Clan, Rossville
38. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Panther Clan, Bainbridge
39. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Donaldson
40. Southeastern Cherokee Council, Inc., Ochloknee
41. Tugalo Cherokee Tribe, Canton
42. Uganawvkalvgv Kituwah Ayeli, Warner Robbins
43. United Cherokee Nation

Idaho
1. Wild Potato Clan of the Northwest Cherokee Wolf Band, Nampa

Indiana
1. Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indiana
2. Midwest Cherokee Alliance
3. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Paint Clan, Rochester

Kansas
1. Neosho River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
Kentucky
1. Delilah Whitecloud United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Kentucky
2. Rainbow Cherokees, Frankfort
3. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Evarts
4. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Black Wolf and Warrior Society, Wallins
Creek

Louisiana
1. Amonsquath Tribe of Cherokee, Deer Clan, Farmersville
2. Four Winds Band of Cherokee, State Recognized
Maryland
1. Free Cherokees, Mechanicsville
2. Free Cherokee, Bird Clan, Chapitco
3. Free Cherokees, Wild Potato Band, Hollywood
Massachusetts
1. Free Cherokees, Eagle Council, Reading
2. Free Cherokees, Wild Potato Band, Feeding Hill

Michigan
1. Free Cherokees, National Veterans Band, Holt
Mississippi
1. Free Cherokees, Star Hawk Band, Jackson

Missouri
1. Amonsquath Tribe of Cherokee, Hannibal, Letter 2/17/95
2. Amonsquath Tribe of Cherokee, Deering
3. Amonsquath Tribe of Cherokee, Powhatan Clan, Sparta
4. Central Missouri Cherokee Tribe, Centralia
5. Chickamauga Cherokee Nation, Rockport
6. Chickamauga Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, Republic, State
Recognized
7. Cherokee Nation West, Southern Band of the Eastern Cherokee Indians of
Missouri and Arkansas, Seneca, Letter 5/11/98
8. Elk River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
9. Free Cherokees, Dogwood band, Ashland
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 21 of 26
10. Free Cherokees, Hummingbird Clan, Columbia
11. Missouri River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
12. Northern Cherokee Nation, Independence, State Recognized
13. Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians, Columbia, Letter 7/26/85
14. Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians of Missouri and Arkansas, Clinton
15. Northern Cherokee Tribe of Missouri, Columbia
16. Northern Cherokee Nation of Old Louisiana Territory, Columbia, Letter 2/19/92,
Petitioning for State Recognition
17. Ozark Mountain Cherokee Tribe of Arkansas and Missouri, Alton
18. Sac River and White River Bands of the Chickamauga Indian Nation of Arkansas
and Missouri, Fair Play, Letter 9/5/91
19. St. Francis River Band of Cherokee Indians
20. Wilderness Tribe of Missouri, Alton, Letter 8/16/99

Nebraska
1. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Coyote Band, Barnston
New Jersey
1. Echota Chickamauga Cherokee Tribe of New Jersey, Irvington
2. Free Cherokees, Osprey Band, Mays Landing

New York
1. Free Cherokees, North Hudson
2. Free Cherokees, Deer Council, Brooklyn
3. Free Cherokees, Many Walks Council, Stony Creek
4. Free Cherokees, Wolf Council, Scottsville
5. Mary Trail of Tears Long House, Brooklyn
6. Nuyagi Keetoowah, Inc., New York
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Mastic

North Carolina
1. Cherokee Indian Tribe of Robeson and Adjoining Counties, Red Springs, Letter
2/1/79, Ineligible 10/23/89
2. Cherokee Indians of Hoke City, Lumber Bridge, Letter 9/20/83, Ineligible
10/23/89
3. Cherokee-Powhatan Indian Association, Roxboro, Letter 9/7/84
4. Creek-Cherokee Indians, Pine Tree Clan, Cherokee
5. Free Cherokees, Chapel Hill
6. Ridge Band of Cherokees, Ridgecrest
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Cedar Grove
8. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Haw River
9. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Silver Cloud Clan, Cedar Grove

Ohio
1. Cherokee Delaware Indian Center, Coshocton
2. Cherokee United Intertribal Indian Council
3. Eastern Cherokee Nation, Overhill Band, Columbus
4. Etowah Cherokee Nation, Portsmouth
5. Free Cherokees, Hokshichanklya Band, Creola
6. Ohio Cherokees, West Portsmouth
7. Tallige Cherokee Nation, Fire Clan, Portsmouth, State Recognized

Oklahoma
1. Canadian River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
2. Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians, Weatherford
3. Northern Chickamauga Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, Miami,
Letter 9/5/91
4. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Horse Clan
5. Southern Cherokee Nation, Webber’s Falls

Oregon
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 23 of 26
1. Northwest Cherokee Wolf Band of the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy,
Talent, Petitioned 3/9/78, Rejected 11/25/85
2. Northwest Cherokee Wolf Band, Deer Clan, Bend
3. Northwest Cherokee Wolf Band, Paint Clan, Salem
4. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Medford
5. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Badger Band, Golden Hill
6. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Paint Band, Salem
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Wolf Band, Phoenix

Pennsylvania
1. Inagei Tsalagi, Cherokees of Virginia, Allison Park
2. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy
3. Tsalagi Elohi Cherokee Earth
4. United Cherokee Tribe of West Virginia, Sewickly
South Carolina
1. Cherokees of South Carolina, Columbia
2. Free Cherokee-Chickamauga, Chesne

Tennessee
1. Cherokees of Lawrence County, Leoma, Letter 9/14/2000
2. Chickamauga Circle of Free Cherokee, Chattanooga
3. Echota Cherokee Tribe
4. Elk Valley Band-Council of Chickamauga Cherokee, Estill
5. Elk Valley Council Band of Free Cherokees, Pigeon Forge
6. Etowah Cherokee Nation, Cleveland, Letter 1/2/91
7. Etowah Cherokee Nation, Pigeon Forge, Letter 12/31/90
8. Faraway Cherokee Association, Memphis
9. Free Cherokees, Grandview
10. Free Cherokees, Chickamaugan Circle, Ooltewah
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 24 of 26
11. Free Cherokees, Good Medicine Society, Grandview
12. Original Cherokee Nation, Chattanooga
13. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Red Clay Inter-Tribal Indian Band,
Ooltewah, Petitioned 3/9/78, Rejected 11/25/85
14. Tennessee Band of the Cherokee, Inc., Strawberry Plains
15. Tennessee River Band of Chickamauga Cherokee, Chickamauga Station
16. Turkeytown Association of the Cherokee, Nashville

[kiowakat]

Texas
1. American Cherokee Tribe of Texas, Lumberton
2. Cherokee Nation of Texas Limited
3. Cherokee Nation of Texas, Tsalagi Nvdagi, Troup
4. Court of the Golden Eagle, His Royal and Imperial Majesty, The Oukah, Emperor
of Tsalagi (the Kingdom of Paradise), King of the Upper Cherokees, King of the
Middle Cherokees, King of the Lower Cherokees, Keeper of the Ancient
Traditions, and Supreme God of the Sun, The Cherokee Nations, Dallas
5. Free Cherokee Tennessee River Band of Chickamauga, Jasper
6. Free Cherokees, Hummingbird Clan, Dallas
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Hawk Clan, Mineral Wells
8. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Sequoyah Clan, El Paso
9. Southeastern Cherokee Tribe and Associated Bands, Porter
10. Sovereign Cherokee Nation-Tejas, Mesquite, Dallas
11. Texas Band of Cherokee Indians of the Mount Tabor Indian Community
12. Texas Buffalo Bayou Band of Chickamaugan Cherokee, Southern Cherokee
Nation
13. Texas Gulf Coast Cherokee and Associated Bands, New Caney

Utah
1. Cherokee Indian Descendents Organization of the Ani-Yun-Wiya, Logan
C. Sturm, 2003 Page 25 of 26
2. Colorado River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation
3. Rocky Mountain Band of Cherokee Descendents, Magna

Vermont
1. Free Cherokees, Tribal Council, Springfield
2. Green Mountain band of Cherokee, Bristol
3. Sunray Meditation Society, Bristol

Virginia
1. Buffalo Ridge Cherokees
2. Cherokees of Virginia, Birdtown
3. Free Cherokees, Spider Clan, Richmond
4. Inagei Tsalagi, Cherokees of Virginia, Rapidan
5. Northern Tsalagi Indian Nation
6. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Crimora
7. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Pine Log Clan, Fairfax
8. Turtle Band of Cherokee, Evington
9. United Cherokee Tribe of Virginia, Madison Heights, Letter 8/3/00

West Virginia
1. United Cherokee Tribes of West Virginia

Washington
1. Anisahani Blue Clan, Woodland
2. Free Cherokees, Four Directions Council, Toledo
3. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, Haddock/Compton Clan, Vancouver

Wisconsin
1. Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy[/brown][/b]

[Kiwehnzii]

Achtung Cherokee Nation of Berlin, Germany.

Ayyyee.

[MayChe]

I wouldn't go so far as to call some of these groups fraudulent. I've met some members of some of these groups and they are of Cherokee descent, documentation and all. They just don't meet the requirements of enrolling.

john_cornsilk was kinda harsh, huh?

[NorthofAda]

I still don't get why there are so many groups claiming Cherokee affiliation. How come there aren't oodles of purported Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Lakota, Dine, etc., etc., groups?

It's frustrating because it gives those of us with legitimate Cherokee heritage a bad name...

DANG!

[Josiah]

john_cornsilk was kinda harsh, huh?

Kinda like saying a F5 tornado is just a stiff breeze
LOL

[timmy tiger]

I wouldn't go so far as to call some of these groups fraudulent. I've met some members of some of these groups and they are of Cherokee descent, documentation and all. They just don't meet the requirements of enrolling.

john_cornsilk was kinda harsh, huh?

It's not about many of the individual's, it's the organization's and their heads that is what makes them Frauds. Many of the individual's, most likely are descendants of a tribe. But to claim that these "Groups" are legit, no, they are not recognized by any of the Tribes that they claim to come from.
Many of the people from different tribes were scattered all over the state's through the Indian Schools and the Relocation Act: Carlisle, Cantonment, and there are so many other's that the list would take too long to put up here. But they were still member's of a "tribe" and many of them stayed where they were sent, many did go home, but for those who stayed---that doesn't make a "Tribe" just a family and descendants, not a whole "Tribe". Now if they called themselves "Organizations" or something like that, I really don't think that anyone would have much problems with it, but to call themselves a full "Tribe" with so-called "Chiefs", now that is a problem.

[billyjoejimbob]

WOW! I new there was a bunch, but not THAT many!

None is South Dakota!

Cherokee, Derokee, Lerokee and Nerokee.

[Ahinawake]

What do you guys know about the United Cherokee Nation? I have a friend who joined, but I'm worried because I've heard that they had a problem with some high-up leaders stealing money a few years ago.

[NorthofAda]

Kinda like saying a F5 tornado is just a stiff breeze
LOL

I think he'd gain more credibility if his comments weren't so profanity laden.

[Josiah]

I think he'd gain more credibility if his comments weren't so profanity laden.

I tried talking with him, We share alot of common ground!
We are from the same tribe and want alot of the same things
But there is no reasoning or debate
Its ALL or NOTHING

[outershell]

that's alotta Cherokee..... :S

[kiowakat]

john C wrote this to me so I can understand a litle more about chickahuaga's, and believe it or not I got a post with no cussin, LOL, way to go John! this was my question:

the lost cherokee of AR never claimed to be Chickamauga, but all the sudden all these off shoots of LC are claiming to be Chickamauga and going for federal recognition, and these groups are sprouting up left and right,(if you haven't noticed) where do the Chickamauga fit into Cherokee History?


Actually KiowaKat there is no such thing as a separate tribe or a people called "Chickamauga", This was merely a term used by the Americans to distinguish between the followers of Dragging Canoe and those abiding by the peace treaties of 1777, called the Chickamauga Cherokee by colonials..


Dragging Canoe had led a group of Cherokee out of the towns of the Overhill area, after a devastating battle where the towns were destroyed to the area of Chickamauga River (South Chickamauga Creek) in the Chattanooga area, where they established eleven towns, including the one named Chickamauga. And Like I said once before it was from this time spent on these waterways that they got their name, by the Colonials who called them the Chickamauga. Just like the Oconaluftee Indians (Eastern Cherokee) lived on the banks of the Oconaluftee River.

Dragging Canoe died in 1792, and for all practical purposes so did the name Chickamauga, some of the followers of Dragging left the Nation before the Trail of tears Round up, for Arkansas settled and treated with US as a separate Group of Cherokee BUT, NOT as Chickamauga Cherokee, this is all bullshyt dreamt up by the Cherokee wannabe craze, they all left Arkansas in 1828 when the U.S decided they wanted them out of Arkansas to make room for the rednecks, they went to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma and became known as Old Settlers, cept for a few that followed the Bowl to Texas and got slaughtered...

[lenapeindian]

add 'white path society" to the fraud list for Pa, they are equipt with white magic men and all...
see Whitepathsociety.org, been to some of their shows, doctorings, crystal reading, the whole show...

[NorthofAda]

All this talk about these various groups brought an old heavy metal song to mind. So with great apologies to Bon Jovi...

To the tune of "You Give Love a Bad Name":

You claim you're an elder, a shaman, or chief.
You promise them membership, then give us grief.
You offer them sweats or an Indian name.
But you've got no bloodline to back up your claim.

Oh, you're a fantasy.
Oh, got no history.
Say what you will,
But I know what I see.

Chorus:
This isn't a tribe,
It's an Inc.
You can't sell a culture or identity.
You might fool some,
But you don't fool me.
You're just a friggin' wannabe!

The truth that I've learned can't be bought with a price.
Passed down by my fathers who paid with their lives.
Traditions unshaken with passage of time.
Not "Instant Indian" for $9.99.

Oh, got you on the run.
Oh, hunted down one by one.
We're not going to stop
'Til the battle is won.

Chorus:
So, put down your drum.
Remove your headdress, please.
Your dimestore feathers and jewelry.
Leave native ways to native folks like me.
We've got authentic genealogy.