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What's New Cherokee HistoryFirst Contact with EuropeansThe Cherokee indians made contact with Europeans early in North American history. The Cherokees' first interaction with Europeans was a brief encounter with Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto in 1540. English colonial traders began to appear among the Cherokees around 1673. The Cherokee first went to war with the colonists in 1711. During the 1700s, three major smallpox epidemics devastated the Cherokee population, each epdemic killing one-third to one-half of the Cherokee population at the time. From an estimated population of thirty-five thousand in 1685, about seven thousand survived in the mid-1760s. 
Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa Indians Giclee Print 18 in. x 24 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed Mounted |
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