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Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> It is much like the question brough up about Europeans invading the new 
> world.  It  did happen.   Much is made about the removal of the Cherokee, which was 
> an autrocity by any measure, but how many people know that at the time of the 
> removal, the Cherokee had been in the Southern Appalachians only about 2000 
> years.  They originally lived in the Great Lakes area and speak (it is a living 
> language) an Iriqoian language. 

I knew I knew!


 In Bev's area they displaced Muskeegee
> speaking people, but around here they displaced the previous inhabitants so 
> thoroughly that no body even knows who they were.  We have the pre Cherokee artifacts 
> and evidence of a sudden disappearance, but apparently they were wiped out.



Right.  We just know they were mound builders before.
>

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