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Location of the Cherokee Indian Tribe

Long before the European Nations discovered the New World, the Cherokee Indians had been living in the Southern portion of the Appalachian Mountains (Sadosky). It is believed that the name Cherokee came from a Choctaw word that means "people of the cave country" (Birchfield). 
 
The Cherokee inhabited this region because of the strategic protection that the vast Appalachain Mountain Range offered. The boundries of their territory stretch between North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and much of present day Georgia (Brinkly 222). 
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