ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources and Student Activities

Cherokee Society

Key Words: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, customs, traditions

Life on the Tennessee Frontier

Key Words:  family life, farm life, community, religion

Longhunters and the Settlement of Tennessee

Key Words: Dr. Thomas Walker, Cumberland Gap, long hunters, Daniel Boone, Richard Henderson, Transylvania Purchase, Wilderness Road, William Bean, Thomas Sharpe Spencer

Tennessee Before European Arrival

Key Words:  Paleo Indians, Coats-Hines site, Archaic, Woodland, Old Stone Fort, Pinson Mounds, Mississippian, Chucalissa Mound

The French and Indian War and the Fort Loudoun Massacre

Key Words:  French and Indian War, Attakullakulla, Oconostota, Fort Loudoun Massacre

Frontier Figures Bellringer

The Cherokee and British on the Tennessee Frontier Lesson Plan

• Primary Source Set 1:  Deer Trade
• Primary Source  Set 2: Attakullakulla
• Primary Source Set 3: Cultural Misunderstandings
• Primary Source Set 4:  Fort Loudoun

Watauga Purchase Lesson Activity

Life on the Tennessee Frontier Lesson Plan

Conflict and Cooperation: The Cherokee and Early Settlers in Tennessee Lesson Plan

ETHS Artifact Cards: Set 1: Tennessee Frontier 1700-1840

Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road

Kincaid, Robert L. “The Wilderness Road in Tennessee.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 20 (1948): 37-48.

Europeans and Native American Cooperation and Conflict

Connelly, Thomas Lawrence. “Indian Warfare on the Tennessee Frontier, 1776-1794: Strategy and Tactics.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 36 (1964): 3-22.

Franklin, W. Neil. “Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1673-1752.”The East Tennessee Society’s Publications 4 (1932): 3-21. 

Franklin, W. Neil. “Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1753-1775.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 22-38.

Rothrock, Mary U. “Carolina Traders Among the Overhill Cherokee, 1690-1760.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 1 (1929): 3-18.

Stone, Richard G., Jr. “Captain Paul Demere at Fort Loudoun, 1757-1760.” The East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 41 (1969): 17-32.

The Long Hunters and Other Mountain Explorers

Fink, Paul M. “Early Explorers in the Great Smokies.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 55-68.

Fink, Paul M. “Russell Bean, Tennessee’s First Native Son.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 37 (1965): 31-48.

Additional Related Articles:

Livingood, James W. “The Tennessee Valley in American History.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 21 (1949): 19-32.

Webb, William S. “The Prehistory of East Tennessee.”The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 8 (1936): 3-8.

Wilson, Samuel M. “Washington’s Relations to Tennessee and Kentucky.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 5 (1933): 3-21.