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Here is a recently completed map of Cherokee towns and place names; this one took longer for me to make because it took a while to figure out Cherokee, and finding reliable sources on the towns is a whole different can of worms. Please do keep in mind that I am not a Cherokee language expert, and some sites may be in the wrong place, but that's something one has to deal with when theres five maps with a town in different locations, I suppose. The ones that are on the map are ones who have a precise location in sources; there're many towns that sadly don't have any info next to their name other than something like what year they were razed.

Incidentally, this is also my first map with something created in QGIS, the topography layer in the background. Looking closely, you can see there are rivers that don't quite match the rivershed in the topography, and that's because I used a basemap with a bit of warping for the rivers layer. I'll have to get better at reprojection in QGIS and choosing more modern basemaps next time.

So hopefully this map sheds some light onto the extent of the Cherokee nation. I've always been interested in aboriginal names in any country, so expect maps with the same premise as this one in the future as well.

Description
Here is a recently completed map of Cherokee towns and place names; this one took longer for me to make because it took a while to figure out Cherokee, and finding reliable sources on the towns is a whole different can of worms. Please do keep in mind that I am not a Cherokee language expert, and some sites may be in the wrong place, but that's something one has to deal with when theres five maps with a town in different locations, I suppose. The ones that are on the map are ones who have a precise location in sources; there're many towns that sadly don't have any info next to their name other than something like what year they were razed.

Incidentally, this is also my first map with something created in QGIS, the topography layer in the background. Looking closely, you can see there are rivers that don't quite match the rivershed in the topography, and that's because I used a basemap with a bit of warping for the rivers layer. I'll have to get better at reprojection in QGIS and choosing more modern basemaps next time.

So hopefully this map sheds some light onto the extent of the Cherokee nation. I've always been interested in aboriginal names in any country, so expect maps with the same premise as this one in the future as well.