Satapo

Satapo lay in the Clinch and Little Tennessee country of eastern Tennessee, where ridges and river valleys fold into the southern Appalachian foothills. Cherokee towns of the Overhill region stood on the Little Tennessee and its neighbouring streams, with corn fields on the river flats and deer and bear hunting in the hills. Cherokee leaders, many of whom had ties to towns along the Tennessee, were drawn into trade with Carolina traders, who brought guns, cloth and metal tools in exchange for deerskins. In 1775 the Cherokee sold a large tract to Richard Henderson at Sycamore Shoals, and frontier settlers then pressed into the valleys, leading to new wars over land in 1776 and 1777.