Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee “Nation of” Indians, exhibiting the boundaries of the various cessions (Royce, 1884)

Charles C. Royce’s map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee Nation, plate VIII of the Bureau of Ethnology’s Fifth Annual Report (dated 1884, published 1887): the country from the Ohio River to central Alabama and Georgia and from the lower Tennessee to the Carolina piedmont, on a base of the towns, rivers and graticule of the 1880s, coloured and numbered to show each tract the Cherokee (Aniyvwiya) ceded to the colonies and to the United States, from the treaty of 1721 with South Carolina to the treaty of New Echota in 1835. Over it Royce letters the old Cherokee and Creek towns and villages, the forts and stations of the frontier, and several old routes: the Great Indian War Path down the valley of East Tennessee, the Old Indian Path between Coosa and Tugeloo across north Georgia, the Old Creek Path west from Rome, the High Tower Path, the Old Cherokee Path to Virginia, the Old Cherokee Trading Path by Ninety Six to the Congarees, the Cherokee Traders’ Path to Yorkville, the Old Path from Tugaloo to Fort Charlotte and the Old Trading Path to the Catawba and Cherokee Nations from Virginia. The title and the numbered table of treaties are not shown. The site’s cessions layer is drawn from Royce’s cession areas; this overlay is the map itself.

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