"John Ross (Guwisguwi)" - Ross' Landing and the origin story of Chattanooga

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The story of the Cherokee in the Tennessee Valley is not only defined by the Trail of Tears. The progressive leadership of Chief John Ross brought his people through a dark period in our nation’s history, as he helped shape the Chattanooga area.
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@chattjedi 4 жыл бұрын

Proud of my Cherokee roots

@TheactressCJ 4 жыл бұрын

I live on the Knob!! Proud to be from Chattanooga. Love my history

@ramencurry6672 10 ай бұрын

Just visited Chattanooga. Fascinating place. I kinda like it more than Nashville

@not1fromyourworld 2 жыл бұрын

I was proud to hear him say ,we are proud to show you that we are still here , they removed mu ancestors in 1838 from Alabama and I was born Cherokee in Alabama in 1969 ,,,yes brother we are still here and we are NOT going away , proud to be Cherokee

@ErasedTwitch 2 жыл бұрын

Yea brother we are still here. We are not leaving ✊🏼🪶

@FreshDnbz 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up on Sand Mountain nearby and oral family history stated that we were decedents of Cherokees who stayed and escaped the soldiers. I remember always going to Noccalula Falls and watching cherokee pow wow. I have no proof. I’ve never been able to find ANYTHING other than you to support the oral history. No historical documents, no censuses, nothing Thank you, my search continues but you have invigorated my search

@melissacarpenter1162 11 ай бұрын

My grandfather and uncles restored the home in 1961

@gloriachinea5069 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks So Very Much For this Info!

@northava369 2 жыл бұрын

My family

@oliverkalamata2753 4 жыл бұрын

I live just a minute from the John Ross house and have all my life. 😄

@jeanheard4615 Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1950 so proud to be a Cherokee

@Samson163 2 жыл бұрын

Well add Red Clay to the list of places I need to go to. I just recently went to New Echota and Blythe Ferry. Also never knew that water stairway was beside the aquarium, been there a few times and never even knew it. Now I gotta go back and to also see Ross's Landing

@johnross9910 3 жыл бұрын

Very good video.

@CalvinsCorner72 6 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks.

@jamieeastham8309 Жыл бұрын

Thats great history I recently found out I'm a descendant of John Ross. I'm still studying more about him but this is great info!

@jamieeastham8309 Жыл бұрын

Hi. I found out John Ross was my great great so forth uncles father in law. Which is cool but after reading the history about his ppl being on trails of tears I was utterly mad how they were forced to be removed

@shadythereok 4 жыл бұрын

The Ross party was correct, they should have never left their land

@jrlsports9490 3 жыл бұрын

Well done, Greater Chattanooga!

@janetprice85 Ай бұрын

Chief John Ross and his wife and children were deported in the "Trail of Tears" west along with hundreds more. His wife a devout Christian along with hundreds of others are buried along that trail. A soldier tasked with the removal later wrote his account of the removal in which he describes his sadnes and how the soldiers tried to help the people who had inadequate supplies and blankets in the cold journey. He mentions Mrs.Ross as a lovely Christian lady and her illness and death.

@jacknickolstine3355 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a descendant of John.

@quavonhall7050 5 жыл бұрын

JaCk nickolstine Tell your blood line

@peach3somg 3 жыл бұрын

So am I 🙂

@robobobbyballs 5 жыл бұрын

John Ross was my grandfather

@jeffross4270 4 жыл бұрын

he is my great great grandfather

@peach3somg 3 жыл бұрын

I'm related to you all 🙂

@page_ssssh 2 жыл бұрын

It's my great x5 grandfather too! Hiii family

@mwingopoe7 5 ай бұрын

Job's tears

@robertboucher2258 3 жыл бұрын

i hate what chattanooga has become... a gosh damned tourist meca now. i liked it better when it was a foundry town

@MatthewBates9124 3 жыл бұрын

I actually like Chattanooga the way it is. I appreciate the attention. Also, when you talk to some of the some tourists, they tell interesting stories about where they come from. Whether it is a Florida, California, or even Europe. One day, I talked to a woman downtown who said she was visiting from France. It's also worth noting that the tourism rakes in a lot of money for the city.

@lordtanooki3424 Жыл бұрын

The air was nasty though

@FAF_ENT Жыл бұрын

Reclassified in the ROSS STOCKADE. Somehow the “Cherokee” are Scottish? I can trace back to Dornoch Scotland 🏹. WE ARE STILL IN TENNESSEE 🏹🏹🏹

@theressamurphy2996 Жыл бұрын

DNA has been done. We have no American Indian blood. Our ancestors were from Scotland and settled in Northern Virginia then after War Between the States moved to Kentucky. The John Ross family with Cherokee ancestors were remarkable people from Tennessee.

@mwingopoe7 5 ай бұрын

Wado

@Mark-ej4uf 8 ай бұрын

Present this fat man to Maria Bo, from Palermo.

@degee8616 3 жыл бұрын

Why are blacks complaining ? why do they say black lives matter ? What about the indians lives matter !!!!!

@vanessacarter5966 2 жыл бұрын

Both lives matter!!!! Each group of people have gotten the short end of the stick! There land was taken away from them and African people were made to come to this land not of their own free well, and yet both groups of people (some of us/them anyway) are still being treated like 💩 #onelove

@page_ssssh 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Native American and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. It's rough out here regardless. No need to drag the other down because we're all down.

@Laylabear92 Жыл бұрын

Same diff. The US cooperation, doing business as, has reclassified and removed ‘blacks’ who were Indians and replaced them using force and continued paper genocide many hundreds of years after.