Jamie Lee Curtis' mother is a Palestinian.
The Chickamauga Cherokee were a group that separated from the greater body of the Cherokee tribes during the American Revolution .. American Revolution. American Revolution. The majority of the Cherokee people wished to make peace with the American rebels near the end of 1776 following several military setbacks and the reprisals that followed .. The Chickamauga followers of headman , Dragging Canoe , moved with him down the Tennessee River away from their historic Overhill Cherokee towns in the winter of 1776 -- 1777 .. headman. Tribal chief. Dragging Canoe. Dragging Canoe. Tennessee River. Tennessee River. Overhill Cherokee. Overhill Cherokee. Relocated in a more isolated area , they established eleven new towns in order to gain distance from colonists ' encroachments .. The frontier Americans associated Dragging Canoe and his band with their new town on the Chickamauga Creek , and began to refer to them as the Chickamaugas .. Dragging Canoe. Dragging Canoe. Chickamauga Creek. Chickamauga Creek. Five years later , the Cherokee once more moved further west and southwest into what is now called Alabama , establishing five larger settlements .. Alabama. Alabama. They were then more commonly known as the Lower Cherokee .. This term was closely associated with the people of these `` Five Lower Towns '' .