Chota (also spelled Chote, Echota, Itsati, and other similar variations) is a historic Overhill Cherokee town site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the...

Look up chota in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chota may refer to: Chota (Cherokee town), which once existed in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee...

Oconostota (c. 1707–1783) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and...

traditional capital at Chota after raids by European Americans. Uskwa'li-gu'ta was born into his mother's family and clan, as the Cherokee had a matrilineal...

Nanyehi (meaning "one who goes about") was born c. 1738 in the Cherokee chief-city, Chota (or "town of refuge"). Today, that area is within Monroe County, on...

Overhill town of Chota, in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, was recognized as the de facto capital and mother town of the entire Cherokee Nation for...

The Cherokee town of Chota developed immediately north of and later than Tanasi. The two sites were divided by an unnamed stream. By the 1740s, Chota had...

he became one of the Cherokees' leading diplomats and an adviser to the Beloved Man of Chota, which had become the primary town of the Overhill settlements...

from the Overhill Towns. They had come from Chota bearing word from Nancy Ward, the Beloved Woman (leader or Elder). The Cherokee offensive proved to...

Fort Loudoun, along the Little Tennessee River near Chota, a major Cherokee town. In 1756 the Cherokee fought alongside the British in the French and Indian...