Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chickamauga Indian
The article needs lots of sourcing work, whatever the outcome of that may be. Whether or not this is an historic root tribe of Cherokees, the topic is straightforwardly notable if only because there are so many claims to Chickamauga tribal background, however meaningful such claims might be. As an aside, the notion of European-Americans claiming ancestral kin within a tribal branch of what is now called the Cherokee nation isn't startling, many Cherokees melded more or less smoothly into the European-American population early on and a lot more European-Americans have Cherokee ancestors than is widely known. As for List of unrecognized tribes, "recognition" by government bureaucrats or politicians is fairly meaningless. Sources have sway and these need not be from peer-reviewed anthropological or historical journals so much as those which are reliable as to reporting that such claims are being made, which seems quite |verifiable and notable, even somewhat widespread. If there is any sourced criticism of such claims, citing it would also be helpful to readers. That any of this may/could have something to do with market outcomes owing to sundry tribal casino laws makes this topic even more notable, not less
— User:Gwen, 11:58, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)