Gringo40s: Cherokee Eye Candy

DeToqueviille points out that while northern tribes were pushed west and so destroyed, the southern tribes, and especially the Cherokee, were SQUEEZED because the Spanish and French had already taken the Mississippi line to their west, so the pressure of Europeans was coming from several directions. So there was extensive intermarriage, one reason for the Cherokee rapid development. By the 1830s their main leaders were 6/8 or 7/8 white. (Which of course was a main fissure in their culture, as the "Traditionals" resented the rich guys like James Vance and John Ross who were basically southern planters and slaveowners.