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European Contact. The first European to enter Tennessee was Hernando de Soto in 1540. His expedition of 700 Spaniards and a number of slaves crossed into Tennessee in mid-May. In Tennessee, they encountered a Mississippian town called Chiaha, near present day Dandridge, Tennessee.
Cherokees John Ross (Tsanusdi), Colonel E. C. Boudinot Jr., Samuel Smith, Lilly Smith, Walini, Marcia Pascal, Lillian Gross, William Penn, and Thomas M. Cook. The prominent early Indian tribes in Tennessee were the Cherokee and the Chickasaw. The Chickasaws claimed most of western Tennessee as their hunting grounds. The Cherokees claimed southeastern Tennessee and northeast Georgia as their homeland.