Soon, the British won the battle and gained trust of the Cherokee, at least for a while.
Despite some problems with the colonist, they got along well. Traders were now marring into Cherokee families. They started adopting traits of the white men, but they remembered that a Child of a Cherokee mother was first and always a Cherokee. Once the Revolutionary war came, the Cherokee supported the British and fought against the settlers. Men were killed and women and children were captured, the Cherokees got a reputation for being savage beasts. After the war the Cherokee had to pay a big penalty for losing, white men wanted more land and revenge. Many of them drove Cherokees out of their homes. They couldn't stand the abuse anymore so they singed the Treaty of Tellico in 1789 and the Treaty of Holston in 1791. These treaties made the Cherokee move to another place, they still would have 43,000 square miles in Georgia and in the lands of the Great Smokey Mountains. Many more Treaties were signed and much more land was lost.
The Cherokees now wanted to be like the white men, they formed a government just like the white men's. Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee Indians, wanted to unite all the tribes in the East to protect their land. But, the Cherokee disagreed with his offer, they knew their weapon would be no match against the weapons of white men. When the Shawnee and the Creeks were at war, 800 Cherokees join the U.S. army and helped defeat them. Tecumseh died and his hope of tribe unite was gone. The Cherokee had aided General Andrew Jackson but he would soon show no loyalty to them.
The greatest accomplishment of the Cherokee was its first written language. Sequoyah had created the Cherokee Syllabary alphabet! He had believed that the secret to the white man's power was that they were able to store knowledge in books.
