New Echota - Capital of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia and a TCP

Summary

This is an abstract from the ""We Especially Love the Land We Live On": Documenting Native American Traditional Cultural Properties of the Historic Period" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

New Echota was the Capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 until their forced removal known as the Trail of Tears. Newly established as capital while the Cherokee interfaced with Georgia’s Euro-American citizens and explorers, New Echota was relatively short-lived.  However, during its brief history the town was home to the Cherokee Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the printing press where the Cherokee Phoenix was printed in English and the Cherokee syllabary, developed in 1821 by Sequoyah.   While not strictly a religious site and no longer associated with resident tribes, could New Echota be considered a Traditional Cultural Property?  The answer is yes. This talk presents the story of New Echota as a Cherokee Capital and TCP.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• "We Especially Love the Land We Live On": Documenting Native American Traditional Cultural Properties of the Historic Period

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