I've visited New Echota and The Chief Vann House many times. I grew up in Rome, Georgia where the Chieftains Museum is. That's the home of Cherokee Chief Major Ridge. My beautiful wife has some Cherokee blood. The first Democrat President, Andrew Jackson, was responsible for the "Trail of Tears" so how could it be PC to be angered and against the evil thing that Democrat did. My Father-in-Law grew up in Spring place near The Chief Vann House. His older sister was friends with the daughter of the Doctor that lived there in the 1930's and had several sleepovers in that house.
I know Jackson was a favorite son of Tennessee but the peaceful civilized and clearly assimilated Cherokee did not deserve what he did.
New Echota Historic Site Photos
Chief Vann House
Yes these were two homes of Cherokee chieftains. Joseph Vann went to Oklahoma Indian Territory, prior to the main Cherokee Removal with a few hundred Cherokee men, women, children, their African-American slaves (including 200 of his own) and horses aboard a flotilla of flat boats to Webbers Falls at the falls of the Arkansas River. There Vann developed a plantation and directed slaves to construct a replica of his lost Georgia mansion. This building was later destroyed during the American Civil War. The Cherokee homes were of the same style and design of the white settlers who lived and farmed the same way. Moravian missionaries were fully accepted by the Cherokee Tribe and some went to prison rather than desert them during their legal battles even up to the Supreme Court.