ABSTRACT
It remains to speak of the eastern band of Cherokee—the remnant which still clings to the woods and waters of the old home country. A considerable number had eluded the troops in the general round-up of 1838 and had fled to the fastnesses of the high mountains. The last party of emigrant Cherokee had started for the West in December, 1838. Nine months afterwards the refugees still scattered about in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee were reported to number 1,046. To Colonel William Holland Thomas the East Cherokee of to-day owe their existence as a people, and for half a century he was as intimately connected with their history as was John Ross with that of the main Cherokee Nation. Christianity was introduced among the Kituhwa Cherokee shortly before the Removal through Worcester and Boudinot's translation of Matthew, first published at New Echota in 1829.
