What does it mean that "Annexation is estimated to be Unknown"?
Annexation time is unknown since you have negative rate of progress -- see your second screenshot. You have -3 diplomatic reputation, which is due to annexation of Choctaw within the last 10 years. A Statesman advisor will allow you to integrate Cherokee in the current circumstances, if one is available and you can afford him.
From EU4wiki page:
Annexing occupies a diplomat until complete. The base cost of annexing a vassal is 10 diplo points per base tax multiplied by hostile core creation modifiers, spent at a rate determined by
- +1 base
- +1 if same culture as suzerain
- +1 if same religion as suzerain
+
or-
suzerain's diplomatic reputation (rounded down).If the total is 0 or negative, annexing will pause, but not go backwards. When all the diplo points are spent, annexation finishes and the suzerain will see the following effects:
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3 Diplomatic reputation for ten years. Doesn't stack. [...]