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In the native Cherokee language, the land called Kentah-teh meant "tomorrow" or "the land where we will live." True to its name, this territory would come to symbolize the promise of the new nation, its raw potential and seemingly endless supply of natural resources. It was, in the colonial era, a place of struggle: first between white settlers and native inhabitants, and, once the indigenous peoples had been driven from the land, between settlers and land speculators, who hoped to turn Kentucky and its frontiersmen's dreams for independence into profit.