Yo, Higgs, the slavers were in charge of the politics of North West Georgia. It was the slavers who stole the Cherokee Land. Since I in fact have been to Chief Vans house and saw that it was a 2 story stick built white style construction I would have to say that the wealthy Indians were living just like the whites. And the Cherokee had their own newspaper. Also the Cherokee were operating a ferry boat service to transport people from one side of the river to the other side to get to and from downtown Rome. And the white slavers in charge of the government just simply stole everything the Cherokee had. Those are the facts. East Rome during the ‘60s was a snob school of 2 faced hypocrites. In the ‘70s the blacks took over the school and won lots of state football championships. During the ‘80s West Rome won lots of football championships.
I had left Rome to live my life by then. Our family lived in West Rome before I started school but we moved out of town off of the Kingston Highway in 1960.