Who First Settled In The Appalachian Mountains?
Who First Settled In The Appalachian Mountains? Native Americans first began to gather in the Appalachian Mountains some 16,000 years ago. Cherokee Indians were the main Native American group of the Southern Appalachian and Blue Ridge regions, but there were also Iroquois, Powhatan, and Shawnee people. Where did Appalachian settlers come from? The earliest European