Chief Tai-Ya-Gansi-Ni "Dragging Canoe", Principal Chief

Dragging Canoe was the son of Attakullakulla, mother unknown, wife unknown; Nellie 'Leaf' Ugalogv Pathkiller was not a known wife. He was the father of Little or Young Dragging Canoe, no documented modern or other descendants.

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Biography

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Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, "he is dragging his canoe") (c.1738–February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of disaffected Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South.

During the American Revolution and afterward, Dragging Canoe's forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes/nations, along with British Loyalists, and agents of France and Spain. The series of conflicts lasted a decade after the American Revolutionary War. Dragging Canoe became the preeminent war leader among the Indians of the southeast of his time. He served as war chief of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") from 1777 until his death in 1792, when he was succeeded by John Watts.

Legacy

Dragging Canoe is considered by many to be the most significant Native American leader of the Southeast. Historians such as John P. Brown in Old Frontiers, and James Mooney in his early ethnographic book, Myths of the Cherokee, consider him a role model for the younger Tecumseh, who was a member of a band of Shawnee living with the Chickamauga and taking part in their wars. In Tell Them They Lie, a book written by a direct descendant of Sequoyah named Traveller [sic] Bird, both Tecumseh and Sequoyah are stated to have been among his young warriors.

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NATIVE NAME: Tsi'yu-gunsini

ENGLISH NAME: Dragging Canoe; Andrew Brown

ALTERNATE NAMES:Cui Canacina, Savage Napoleon, Dragon (so called by his enemies).

ALTERNATE SPELLINGS: Cheucunsene, Kunnese

MEANING OF NAMES:

• Tsi'yu-gunsini - Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini).
• Dragging Canoe - According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood in which he attempted to prove his readiness to go on the warpath by hauling a canoe, but he was only able to drag it.

BIRTHPLACE / DATE: Attakullakulla resided in the village of Tenase through 1755 so this is likely the place of Dragging Canoe's birth. Dragging Canoe was said to be a few years older than his cousin Nancy Ward (born 1738), daughter of Tame Doe who was the sister of Attakullakulla, Dragging Canoe's father. Estimated date of birth: 1740.

RESIDENCE: Tellico, and Chota, E. Indian Nation, Tennessee. Later, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, Dragging Canoe moves families downriver to Chickamauga and Chattanooga and Running Water Creek (now Whiteside), and Upper and Lower Towns

DEATH DATE / LOCATION: He died March 1, 1792, in Running Waters, Tennessee from exhaustion or an apparent heart attack after dancing all night celebrating the recent conclusion of an alliance with the Muskogee and the Choctaw. He also had a very small cut from a rifle ball on his side that went unattended and became infected. It was normal after each battle that the Chief and his warriors dance and gave thanks to Yowa (God, Creator) for a great victory. This would go on for several days and nights.

BURIAL PLACE: In traditional Cherokee style he was buried in a sitting position, his possessions heaped around him.

http://www.aaanativearts.com/cherokee/dragging-canoe.htm

"Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delewares? They have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former greatness.

We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have passed the mountains, and have settled upon Tsalagi (Cherokee) land. They wish to have that usurpation sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Tsalagi (Cherokees). New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country, which the Tsalagi (Cherokees) and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and the remnant of the Ani Yvwiya, The Real People, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness.

There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to point out any further retreat for the miserable Tsalagi (Cherokees), the extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than to submit to further loss of our country?

Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt or fight. As for me, I have my young warriors about me. We will hold our land." - Chief Dragging Canoe, Chickamauga Tsalagi (Cherokee) 1775

http://www.prophecykeepers.com/chickamaugacherokee/dragging_canoe.html

On April 19th, 2010, the Carter County government (representing the people known as the Wataugans) passed a resolution acknowledging the tragedy of broken covenant between themselves and the Cherokee. The Wataugans were the first settlement independent of the crowns of Europe and formed the first democratic government in North American (in what is now Carter County) in 1772, preceding and likely giving birth to the American Revolution of 1776. Some of the Wataugans went on to sign the Transylvania Land Treaty which illegally ceded land in middle Tennessee north of the Cumberland River and most of Kentucky. Chief Dragging Canoe was opposed to the Treaty and released a curse, saying, "You have bought a fair land, but there is a cloud hanging over it; you will find its settlement dark and bloody."

http://www.generals.org/prayer/rpn/root-52/prayer-reports/tennessee...

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9. Tai-ya-gansi-ni (he is) Dragging (the) Canoe (Nionne Ollie - of the Paint Clan3, Oconostota , the Groundhog Sausage, who was2, Smallpx Conjeror of Settico1) was born 1730, and died 1 MAR 1792 in Lookout Town, Tennessee. He married U-ga-lo-gv LEAF , Nelly Pathkiller, daughter of Pathkiller I \\ and Peggy. She was born BET 1730 AND 1734.

Children of Tai-ya-gansi-ni (he is) Dragging (the) Canoe and U-ga-lo-gv LEAF , Nelly Pathkiller are:

	19	  i.	Crying Snake.

20 ii. Eyoostee.
21 iii. Little (Dragging) Canoe was born 1748.
22 iv. Little Owl Canoe was born 1750.
+ 23 v. Naky Sarah CANOE was born 1752.

	24	  vi.	Gi-yo-sti was born 1770.

25 vii. Nettle Carrier TALOTISKEE , Hemp Carrier was born 1782.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=sandrahun...

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DRAGGING CANOE

1740-1792

Dragging Canoe, Cherokee warrior and leader of the Chickamaugas, was born in one of the Overhill towns on the Tennessee River, the son of the Cherokee diplomat Attakullakulla. Historians have identified Dragging Canoe as the greatest Cherokee military leader. Even at an early age Dragging Canoe wanted to be a warrior. He once asked his father to include him in a war party against the Shawnees, but Attakullakulla refused. Determined to go, the boy hid in a canoe, where the warriors found him. His father gave the boy permission to go--if he could carry the canoe. The vessel was too heavy, but undaunted, the boy dragged the canoe. Cherokee warriors encouraged his efforts, and from that time, he was known as Dragging Canoe.

As the head warrior of the Overhill town of Malaquo, Dragging Canoe fought a number of significant battles against white settlers. By the 1770s the increasing encroachment by settlers on Indian land concerned Dragging Canoe, and he worked to achieve their removal. In 1776 fourteen northern tribes sent envoys to the Overhill towns to offer an alliance with the Cherokees. Dragging Canoe thought the opening of the Revolutionary War provided the perfect opportunity to strike the isolated white settlements. The Cherokees planned a three-pronged attack: Old Abram led a contingent against the Watauga and Nolichucky settlements; warriors under the leadership of the Raven struck Carter's Valley; and Dragging Canoe fought at the battle of Island Flats, where he was wounded. The settlers suffered heavy losses initially, but the arrival of reinforcements proved too much for the Cherokees, and they were defeated.

Many Cherokee leaders argued against further fighting, but Dragging Canoe refused to submit. He fled the Overhill towns with like-minded Cherokees and established new towns on Chickamauga Creek in the winter of 1776-77. This group, which included discontented members of various tribes, came to be known as the Chickamaugas. Dragging Canoe and his warriors fought the 1781 "Battle of the Bluffs" near Fort Nashborough and defeated American army troops when they invaded the Chickamauga towns in 1788.

As he aged, Dragging Canoe moved from the position of warrior to that of diplomat. He worked to preserve Cherokee culture and establish an alliance with the Creeks and Shawnees. In 1791 a federation of Indian forces defeated General Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. Shortly after a diplomatic mission with the Chickasaws, Dragging Canoe died on March 1, 1792, in the town of Running Water, one of the towns he had helped to found.

Patricia Bernard Ezzell, Tennessee Valley Authority

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Dragging Canoe (c. 1738 – March 1, 1792) was an American Indian war leader who led a dissident band of young Cherokees against the United States in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography

Son of Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter" in English), who was part Shawnee, and a mother who was a Natchez living in a town of refugees from that tribes who had settled among the Overhill Towns on the Little Tennessee River, he contracted smallpox at a young age, which left his face pock-marked. According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood in which he attempted to prove his readiness to go on the warpath by hauling a canoe, the attempt resulting in him only being able to drag it.

War leader: allied to the British

Dragging Canoe did later get his chance to take part in war, initially against the Shawnee and Muskogee (later his two closest allies), but he gained his first real taste in the Anglo-Cherokee War (1759-1761), along with prior forays into the Ohio country as well. In the aftermath of this war, he became one of the most vocal opponents of encroachment by settlers from the British colonies onto Indian, especially Cherokee, land. Eventually he became chief of Great Island Town (Amoyeli Egwa in Cherokee, written Mialaquo by the British) on the Little Tennessee River.

When the Cherokee opted to join in the fighting of the American Revolution on the side of the British, Dragging Canoe was at the head of one of the major attacks. After his father and Oconostota refused to continue further after the wholesale destruction of the Cherokee Middle (Hill), Valley, and Lower Towns, Dragging Canoe led a band of the Overhill Cherokee out of the towns to the area surrounding Chickamauga River (South Chickamauga Creek) in the Chattanooga area, where they established eleven towns in 1777, including the one named Chickamauga across river from place where the British commissary John McDonald had set up shop, doing so on the advice of Alexander Cameron, the British agent to the Cherokee. From this location, frontiersmen gave his group the name the Chickamauga.

War leader: fighting on after Yorktown

After the Chickamauga towns were destroyed a second time in 1782, Dragging Canoe's band moved down the Tennessee River to the "Five Lower Towns" below the obstructions of the Tennessee River Gorge: Running Water (now Whiteside), Nickajack (near the cave of the same name), Long Island (on the Tennessee River), Crow Town (at the mouth of Crow Creek), and Lookout Mountain Town (at the site of the current Trenton, Georgia). From Running Water, Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the American Southeast, especially against the colonial settlements on the Holston, Watauga, and Nolichucky Rivers in East Tennessee, and the Cumberland River settlements in Middle Tennessee (after 1780), sometimes raiding into Kentucky and Virginia as well. His brothers Tachee, Little Owl, The Badger, The Raven, and Turtle-at-Home are known to have taken part in his wars as well.

Dragging Canoe died March 1, 1792, from exhaustion or an apparent heart attack after dancing all night celebrating the recent conclusion of alliance with the Muskogee and the Choctaw, despite a failed similar mission to the Chickasaw, from whence he had just returned, plus a recent victory by a Chickamauga war band on the Cumberland River settlements. He is considered by many to be the most significant Native Americans leader of the Southeast, and provided a significant role model for the younger Tecumseh, who was a member of a band of Shawnee living with the "Chickamaugas" and taking part in their wars.

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More About DRAGGING CANOE:

Attended: March 1775, Henderson's Treaty, Sycamore Shoals

Blood: 3/4 Cherokee

Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan

A Speech Given by Dragging Canoe

- Chief Dragging Canoe, Chickamauga Tsalagi (Cherokee) 1775

"Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delawares? They have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former greatness. We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have passed the mountains, and have settled upon Tsalagi (Cherokee) land. They wish to have that usurpation sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Tsalagi (Cherokees). New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country, which the Tsalagi (Cherokees) and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and the remnant of the Ani Yvwiya, The Real People, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness. There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to point out any further retreat for the miserable Tsalagi (Cherokees), the extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than to submit to further loss of our country? Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt or fight. As for me, I have my young warriors about me. We will hold our land."

From the Cherokee Registry

As a 12-14 year old boy he was told he couldn't go with the war party unless he could drag the fully loaded war log canoe on land into the water. His enthusiasm and endeavors earned him the name Tsi'ui-Gunsin'ni "Dragging Canoe". This was circa 1750 when his father Atakullakulla led war parties against the French & their Native allies, including Shawnee, in the Ohio Valley.

from James Hicks:

Dragging Canoe

Tsi’yi-gunsi’ni

Tsu-gun-sini

Chuconsene

Cheucunsene

Kunnesee

the Savage Napoleon

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from Don Chesnut's web page; www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/cherokee.htm

Tsi’yi-gunsi’ni :

"He is dragging a canoe," from tsi’yu, canoe (cf. Tsi’yu) otter, and gunsi’ni, "he is dragging it." "Dragging Canoe," a prominent leader of the hostile Cherokee in the Revolution. The name appears in documents as Cheucunsene and Kunnesee. (Starr also lists him as Chuconsene)

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As a 12-14 year old boy he was told he couldn't go with the war party unless he could drag the fully loaded war log canoe on land into the water. His enthusiasm and endeavors earned him the name Tsi'ui-Gunsin'ni "Dragging Canoe". This was circa 1750 when his father Atakullakulla led war parties against the French & their Native allies, including Shawnee, in the Ohio Valley.

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1792 February 17; Chickamauga Chief Glass and Dragging Canoe's brother, Turtle At Home, waylaid the John Collingsworth family near Nashville, killing the father, mother, and a daughter, and capturing an eight-year-old girl. Returning to Lookout Town (near Trenton, Georgia), they held a scalp dance, grinding one of the scalps in his teeth as he performed. Dragging Canoe, recently returned from Mississippi after meeting with Choctaws, celebrated the occasion so strenuously that he died the following morning, age ±54.

John Watts of Will's Town (near Fort Payne, Alabama), became the new Chickamauaga leader of the united war effort. Cherokee resistance continued - led a big campaign against settlements in Nashville (Buchanan Station 1793) and in upper east Tennessee led the combined Cherokee-Creek attack at Cavett's Station in 1793 in which there were no white survivors.

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Old Frontiers, pg 5

"Tsu-gun-sini, Dragging Canoe, son of Attakullakulla, was chief of Amo-yeli-egwa, Great Island, one of the smaller Cherokee towns."

March 1775]

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Old Frontiers, pg 161

[1776, Dragging Canoe] "With his followers, he seceded from the Cherokee Nation and withdrew a hundred miles down the Tennessee River where he organized a new tribe. Those Cherokees who met in treaty with the Americans, he denounced as "rogues," or worse, as "Virginians." His own followers called themselves, proudly, "Ani-Yunwiya," the Real People.

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From Kurt Kuhlmann, Dissertation prospectus, November 17, 1994 (http://www.warhorsesim.com/papers/Cherokee.htm):

In 1775, Richard Henderson, a North Carolina land speculator, "purchased" a vast tract of land (essentially all of Kentucky and a large part of Tennessee) from the Cherokee. Henderson's purchase set in motion the last chapter of Cherokee military resistance to European expansion. Land pressure on the Cherokees had increased steadily following the Seven Years War. The Cherokee leadership was reluctant to go to war again after their severe defeat in the early 1760s, but by 1775 European settlers were encroaching on Cherokee lands on three sides. The early 1770s saw the intruders cross the mountains and settle on Cherokee land in the Watauga and Holston valleys to the north. John Stuart, the British Indian agent for the Southern district, had for the most part aided the Cherokee in resisting legal encroachment, but the colonial governments of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia would not or could not prevent settlers from trespassing on land guaranteed to the Cherokee by treaty. Henderson's "purchase" was tainted in several ways. Not only was it illegal under British law (the Proclamation of 1763 prohibited private land deals with the Indians), other tribes had claims on the land in question (it was used as hunting grounds by several tribes, including the Shawnee), and it was even questionable whether the Cherokees actually sold Henderson the land as he claimed. Worse, the cession was denounced during the negotiations by Dragging Canoe, leader of the militant Cherokee faction and the son of Attakullaculla, one of the chiefs who signed the treaty with Henderson.

Henderson's purchase did not immediately lead to war, but it discredited the leaders who had negotiated the treaty (Attakullaculla, Oconostota, and the Raven), thus strengthening the position of the militant Cherokees. As the turmoil of the Revolution reached the frontiers of European settlement, the militants prevailed and the request for war delivered by a delegation of northern Indians in 1776 was accepted. The result was disastrous for the Cherokee. Three separate militia armies invaded the Cherokee lands during 1776, burning towns and crops and leaving devastation in their wake. At the price of additional land cessions, the Cherokees managed to secure peace with the state governments in 1777. Dragging Canoe refused to accept this policy and his militant faction seceded from the Cherokee, moving west and establishing new towns on the Tennessee River. The Chickamauga, as they became known, remained at war with the foreign settlements west of the mountains almost continually for the next 17 years.

The situation was thus established as it would remain until 1794. The leadership on both sides (the Cherokee chiefs, and the state and federal governments) generally wanted peace, but neither could control their own militants. On the Cherokee side, the Chickamauga provided a rallying point for the disaffected young men of the Cherokee nation proper. The fact that the Chickamauga acted independently of the rest of the Cherokee nation did not stop the frontier settlers from retaliating against the peaceful towns for Chickamauga attacks. On the American side, the settlers constantly violated lands guaranteed to the Cherokee by treaty, and conducted independent warfare against them. During the 1780s the situation was further complicated when several western counties (what became eastern Tennessee) formed themselves into the State of Franklin in open rebellion against North Carolina. When the states' western land claims were ceded to Congress and reorganized into the Southwest Territory in 1790, the federal government became directly involved without having much more control over the situation.

After 1776, the Cherokee were only drawn into general war once more, in 1788-89, when the murder of a negotiating party, including Old Tassel, one of the most distinguished chiefs, inflamed the whole nation. In general, however, the Cherokee as a whole both paid the price and reaped the benefits of the continued Chickamauga warfare. The Chickamauga certainly slowed down the expansion of some foreign settlements, especially the isolated Cumberland towns established in 1779. On the other hand, the Cherokee nation repeatedly suffered for Chickamauga actions, being both easier to attack and in possession of the lands nearest to the expanding settlements of north Georgia, western North Carolina and Virginia, and East Tennessee. Cherokee military resistance finally ended in 1794 when the Chickamauga made peace with the United States at Tellico Blockhouse. Most rejoined the Cherokee; the rest emigrated west across the Mississippi.

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Dragging Canoe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dragging Canoe–Tsiyu Gansini Born 1738 Died February 29, 1792 (aged 53–54) Running Water Town Occupation War chief of the Chickamauga Cherokee Relatives son of Attakullakulla This article contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics. Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, "he is dragging his canoe")[1] (c.1738–February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of disaffected Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South.

During the American Revolution and afterward, Dragging Canoe's forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes/nations, along with British Loyalists, and agents of France and Spain. The series of conflicts lasted a decade after the American Revolutionary War. Dragging Canoe became the preeminent war leader among the Indians of the southeast of his time. He served as war chief of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") from 1777 until his death in 1792, when he was succeeded by John Watts.

He was the son of Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter"), who was born to the Nipissing. He and his mother were captured when he was an infant, and they were adopted into the Cherokee tribe and assimilated. His mother was Nionne Ollie ("Tamed Doe), born to the Natchez and adopted as a captive by Oconostota's household.[2]

They lived with the Overhill Cherokee on the Little Tennessee River. Dragging Canoe survived smallpox at a young age, which left his face marked. According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood. Wanting to join a war party moving against a neighboring tribe, the Shawnee, his father told him he could stay with the war party as long as he could carry his canoe. He tried to prove his readiness for war by carrying the heavy canoe, but he could only manage to drag it.[3]

War chief of the Cherokee[edit] Main article: Cherokee–American wars Dragging Canoe first took part in battle during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–1761). In its aftermath, he was recognized as one of the strongest opponents to encroachment by settlers from the British colonies onto Cherokee land. Eventually, he became the headman of Mialoquo ("Great Island Town," or "Amoyeli Egwa" in Cherokee) on the Little Tennessee River.

When the Cherokee chose to ally with the British in the American Revolution, Dragging Canoe was at the head of one of the major attacks. After the colonial militias' counter attack, which destroyed the Cherokee Middle, Valley, and Lower Towns, his father and Oconostota wanted to sue for peace. Refusing to admit defeat, in 1777 Dragging Canoe led a band of the Overhill Cherokee out of the towns, further south.[3] They migrated to the area seven miles upstream from where the South Chickamauga Creek joins the Tennessee River, in the vicinity of present-day Chattanooga. Thereafter, frontiersman called them the "Chickamauga" because of their settlement by the creek.[3][4] They established 11 towns, including the one later referred to as "Old Chickamauga Town." This was across the river from where the Scotsman, John McDonald, the assistant superintendent of the British concerns in the area, had a trading post.[4] He supplied the Chickamauga with guns, ammo, and supplies with which to fight.[3]

In 1782, for the second time, their towns were attacked by United States forces. The devastation caused by Colonel John Sevier's troop forced the band to once again move further down the Tennessee River. Dragging Canoe then established the "Five Lower Towns" below the natural obstructions of the Tennessee River Gorge.[3] These were: Running Water Town (now Whiteside), Nickajack Town (near the cave of the same name), Long Island (on the Tennessee River), Crow Town (at the mouth of Crow Creek), and Lookout Mountain Town (at the current site of Trenton, Georgia). Following this move, they were alternately referred to as the "Lower Cherokee."[3]

From his base at Running Water Town, Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the American Southeast, especially against the colonists on the Holston, Watauga, and Nolichucky rivers in eastern Tennessee. After 1780, he also attacked settlements in the Cumberland River area, the Washington District, the Republic of Franklin, the Middle Tennessee areas, and raided into Kentucky and Virginia as well. His three brothers, Little Owl, the Badger, and Turtle-at-Home, often fought with his forces.

Death Dragging Canoe died February 29, 1792 at Running Water Town,[3] from exhaustion (or possibly a heart attack) after dancing all night celebrating the recent conclusion of an alliance with the Muskogee and the Choctaw.[5] He had not brought the Chickasaw into the alliance. The Chickamauga were also celebrating a recent victory by one of their war bands against the Cumberland settlements.

Legacy Dragging Canoe is considered by many to be the most significant Native American leader of the Southeast. Historians such as John P. Brown in Old Frontiers, and James Mooney in his early ethnographic book, Myths of the Cherokee, consider him a role model for the younger Tecumseh, who was a member of a band of Shawnee living with the Chickamauga and taking part in their wars. In Tell Them They Lie, a book written by a direct descendant of Sequoyah named Traveller [sic] Bird, both Tecumseh and Sequoyah are stated to have been among his young warriors.

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Chickamauga Cherokee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Chickamauga Cherokee, referred to themselves as Chicomogie as found in a letter signed by Little Turkey, Hanging Maw, and Dragging Canoe [1] also known as the Lower Cherokee, were a group of Cherokee who supported Great Britain at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. Followers of the Cherokee headman Dragging Canoe, in the winter of 1776–1777, they moved with him down the Tennessee River away from the historic Overhill Cherokee towns. In this more isolated area, they established almost a dozen new towns to gain distance from colonists' encroachment. The frontier Americans associated Dragging Canoe and his band with their new town on the Chickamauga Creek, and began to refer to them as the Chickamaugas. Neither this group nor other Cherokee considered them to be distinct from or independent of the overall 19th-century Cherokee peoples is a false narrative. The Upper Cherokee wrote Thomas Jefferson on May 4th 1808 asking for separation from the Lower Towns quoted here from the letter, "You propose My Children, that your Nation shall be divided into two and that your part the Upper Cherokees, shall be separated from the lower by a fixed boundary, shall be placed under the Government of the U.S. become citizens thereof, and be ruled by our laws; in fine, to be our brothers instead of our children.". [2]

After the Cherokee moved further west and southwest five years later, they were more commonly known as the "Lower Cherokee." This term was associated with the people of the "Five Lower Towns," who originally formed the new settlements.

Contents [hide] 1 Migration 1.1 "Chickamauga" towns 1.2 "Five Lower Towns" 2 Constant war 3 Cherokee interactions 4 Aftermath of the wars 4.1 Resettling 4.2 Peacetime leaders of the Lower Towns 5 Later events 5.1 Tecumseh's return 5.2 War with the Creek 6 References 7 External links Migration[edit] "Chickamauga" towns[edit]

The original 'Chickamauga Towns' of Dragging Canoe's followers, along with the Hiwassee towns and the towns on the Tellico. In the winter of 1776–1777, Cherokee followers of Dragging Canoe, who had supported the British at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, moved down the Tennessee River and away from their historic Overhill Cherokee towns. They established nearly a dozen new towns in this frontier area in an attempt to gain distance from encroaching European-American settlers.

Dragging Canoe and his followers settled at the place where the Great Indian Warpath crossed the Chickamauga Creek, near present-day Chattanooga, Tennessee. They named their town Chickamauga after the stream. The entire adjacent region was referred to in general as the Chickamauga area. American settlers adopted that term to refer to the militant Cherokee in this area as "Chickamaugas". In 1782, militia forces under John Sevier and William Campbell destroyed the eleven Cherokee towns. Dragging Canoe led his people further down the Tennessee River.

After the war, migration west increased by pioneers from the new states of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.

"Five Lower Towns"[edit] Dragging Canoe relocated his people west and southwest, into new settlements centered on Running Water (now Whiteside) on Running Water Creek. The other towns founded at this time were: Nickajack (near the cave of the same name), Long Island (on the Tennessee River), Crow Town (at the mouth of Crow Creek), and Lookout Mountain Town (at the site of the current Trenton, Georgia). In time more towns spread south and west, and all these were referred to as the Lower Towns.

Constant war[edit] Main article: Cherokee–American wars The Chickamauga Cherokee became known for their uncompromising enmity against United States settlers, who had pushed them out of their traditional territory. From Running Water town, Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the American Southeast. Later, his Chickamauga warriors raided as far as Indiana, Kentucky and Virginia (along with the Western Confederacy —which they helped establish). Due to a growing belief in the Chickamauga cause, as well as the destruction of the homes of the other Native Americans, a majority of the Cherokee eventually came to be allied against the United States.

After the death of Dragging Canoe in 1792, his hand-picked successor, John Watts, assumed control of the Lower Cherokee. Under Watts' lead, the Cherokee continued their policy of Indian unity and hostility toward European-Americans. Watts moved his base of operations to Willstown to be closer to his Muscogee allies. Prior to this, he had concluded a treaty in Pensacola with the Spanish governor of West Florida, Arturo O'Neill de Tyrone, for arms and supplies with which to carry on the war. The Chickamauga/Lower Cherokee and the frontiersmen were continuously at war until 1794.

Cherokee interactions[edit] In 1799, Brother Steiner, a representative of the Moravian Brethren, met with Richard Fields at Tellico Blockhouse. Fields was a Lower Cherokee who had previously served as a warrior. Steiner hired him as guide and interpreter, as the missionary had been sent south by the Brethren to scout for an appropriate location for a mission and school in the Nation. It was ultimately located at Spring Place on land donated by James Vann, who supported gaining some European-American education for his people. On one occasion, Br. Steiner asked his guide, "What kind of people are the Chickamauga?". Fields laughed, then replied, "They are Cherokee, and we know no difference."[3]

The Chickamauga Towns and the later Lower Towns were no different from the rest of the Cherokee than were other groups of historic settlement, known as the Middle Towns, Out Towns, (original) Lower Towns, Valley Towns, or Overhill Towns, when the Europeans first encountered these people. The groupings did not constitute separate political entities as much as groupings for geographic convenience. The only real government among the Cherokee was by town and clan, and though there were regional councils, these had no binding powers.

Over time, the different groups of towns developed differing ideas about relations with European-Americans, in part related to the degree of interaction and intermarriage they had with them through trading and other partnerships.

The only "national" position which existed among the people before 1788 was First Beloved Man, which was a chief negotiator from the Towns of the Cherokee farthest from the reach of the intruders. After 1788 there was a national council of sorts, but it met irregularly and at the time had no prescriptive or proscriptive powers. Even after the peace of 1794, the Cherokee were broken up into five groups: the Upper Towns (formerly the Lower Towns of western Carolina and northeastern Georgia), the Overhill Towns, the Hill Towns, the Valley Towns, and the (new) Lower Towns, each with their own regional ruling councils (considered more important than the "national" council at Ustanali).

Dragging Canoe had addressed the National Council at Ustanali, and publicly acknowledged Little Turkey as the senior leader of all the Cherokee. He was memorialized by the council following his death in 1792. Leaders of the "Chickamauga" frequently communicated with the Cherokee of other regions, and they were supported in warfare against the colonists and later pioneers by warriors from the Overhill Towns. Numerous Chickamauga headmen signed treaties with the federal government, along with other leaders of the Cherokee.

Aftermath of the wars[edit] Following the Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse in late 1794, leaders from the Lower Cherokee dominated national affairs of the people. When the national government of all the Cherokee Nation was organized, the first three persons to hold the office of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation: Little Turkey (1788–1801), Black Fox (1801–1811), and Pathkiller (Nunnehidihi; 1811–1827), had previously served as warriors under Dragging Canoe. Doublehead and Turtle-at-Home, the first two Speakers of the Cherokee National Council, which was established in 1794, had also served with Dragging Canoe.[citation needed]

The domination of the Cherokee Nation by the former warriors from the Lower Towns continued well into the 19th century. Even after the revolt of the young chiefs of the Upper Towns, the representatives of the Lower Towns were a major voice. The "young chiefs" of the Upper Towns who dominated that region had also previously been warriors with Dragging Canoe and Watts.

Resettling[edit] Many of the former warriors returned to the original settlements in the Chickamauga area, some of which had already been reoccupied. They also established new towns in the area, plus several in north Georgia. Others moved into those towns established after the earlier migration, such as Itawa (or Etowah).

Still others joined the remnant populations of the Overhill towns on the Little Tennessee River that were referred to as the Upper Towns. These were centered on Ustanali in Georgia. James Vann and his protégés The Ridge (Ganundalegi; formerly known as Pathkiller, or Nunnehidihi) and Charles R. Hicks (also named Nunnehidihi in Cherokee) rose to be their top leaders, along with John Lowery, George Lowery, Bob McLemore, John Walker, Jr., George Fields, and others. The leaders of these towns were the most progressive among the Cherokee, favoring extensive acculturation, formal education adapted from European-Americans, and modern methods of farming.[4]

The primary areas of operations during the Chickamauga Wars, showing the more prominent settlements of the war and postwar Lower Towns in the lower left quarter For a decade or more after the end of the hostilities, the northern section of the Upper Towns had their own council and acknowledged the top headman of the Overhill Towns as their leader. They gradually had to move south due to ceding of their land to the United States.

John McDonald returned to his old home on the Chickamauga River, across from Old Chickamauga Town, and lived there until selling it in 1816. It was purchased by the Boston-based American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for use as the Brainerd Mission, which served as both a church (named the Baptist Church of Christ at Chickamauga) and a school offering academic and vocational training. His daughter, Mollie McDonald, and son-in-law, Daniel Ross, developed a farm and trading post near the old village of Chatanuga (Tsatanugi) from the early days of the wars. Settled near them were sons Lewis and Andrew Ross, and a number of daughters. Their son John Ross, born at Turkey Town, later rose to become a principal chief, guiding the Cherokee through the Indian Removals of the 1830s and relocation to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The majority of the Lower Cherokee remained in the towns they inhabited in 1794, known as the Lower Towns, with their seat at Willstown. Their leaders were John Watts, Bloody Fellow, Doublehead, Black Fox, Pathkiller, Dick Justice, The Glass, Tahlonteeskee (brother of Doublehead); his nephew John Jolly (Ahuludiski, who was the adoptive father of Sam Houston); John Brown (owner of Brown's Tavern, Brown's Landing, and Brown's Ferry, as well as judge of the Chickamauga District of the young Cherokee Nation); Young Dragging Canoe, Richard Fields, and red-headed Will Weber, for whom Titsohili was called Willstown, among others. The former warriors of the Lower Towns dominated the political affairs of the Nation for the next twenty years. They were more conservative than leaders of the Upper Towns, adopting many elements of assimilation but keeping as many of the old ways as possible.[5]

Roughly speaking, the Lower Towns were south and southwest of the Hiwassee River along the Tennessee down to the north border of the Muscogee nation, and west of the Conasauga and the Ustanali in Georgia, while the Upper Towns were north and east of the Hiwassee and between the Chattahoochee River and the Conasauga. This latter was approximately the same area as the later Amohee, Chickamauga, and Chattooga districts of the Cherokee Nation East.[6]

Also traditional were the settlements of the Cherokee in the highlands of western North Carolina, which had become known as the Hill Towns, with their seat at Quallatown. Similarly, the lowland Valley Towns, with their seat at Tuskquitee, were more traditional, as was the Upper Town of Etowah. It was notable both for being inhabited mostly by full-bloods (as many Cherokee of the other towns were of mixed race but identified as Cherokee) and for being the largest town in the Cherokee Nation. The Overhill towns remaining along the Little Tennessee remained more or less autonomous, and kept their seat at Chota.

All five regions had their own councils. These were more important to their people than the nominal nation council until the reorganization in 1810, which took place after the national council held that year at Willstown.

Peacetime leaders of the Lower Towns[edit] John Watts remained the head of the council of the Lower Cherokee at Willstown until his death in 1802. Afterward, Doublehead, already a member of the triumvirate, moved into that position and held it until his death in 1807. He was assassinated by The Ridge, Alexander Saunders (best friend to James Vann), and John Rogers. The latter was a white former trader who had first come west with Dragging Canoe in 1777. By 1802 he was considered a member of the nation, and was allowed to sit on the council.[citation needed] He was succeeded on the council by The Glass, who was also assistant principal chief of the nation to Black Fox. The Glass was head of the Lower Towns council until the unification council of 1810.

The Ridge (Ganundalegi), formerly known as Pathkiller (Nunnehidihi), illustration from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. By the time John Norton (a Mohawk of Cherokee and Scottish ancestry) visited the area in 1809–1810, many of the formerly militant Cherokee of the Lower Towns were among the most assimilated members. James Vann, for instance, became a major planter, holding more than 100 African-American slaves, and was one of the wealthiest men east of the Mississippi. Norton became a personal friend of Turtle-at-Home as well as John Walker, Jr., and The Glass, all of whom were involved in business and commerce. At the time of Norton's visit, Turtle-at-Home owned a ferry with a landing on the Federal Road between Nashville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia, where he lived at Nickajack. This community had expanded down the Tennessee as well as across it to the north, eclipsing Running Water.

When Georgia and the US government increased pressure for the Cherokee Nation to cede its lands and remove to the west of the Mississippi River, such leaders of the Lower Towns as Tahlonteeskee, Degadoga, John Jolly, Richard Fields, John Brown, Bob McLemore, John Rogers, Young Dragging Canoe, George Guess (Tsiskwaya, or Sequoyah) and Tatsi (aka Captain Dutch) were forerunners. Believing that removal was inevitable in the face of settlers' greed, they wanted to try to get the best lands and settlements possible. They moved with followers to Arkansas Territory, establishing what later became known as the Cherokee Nation West. They next moved to Indian Territory following an 1828 treaty between their leaders and the US government. They were called the "Old Settlers" in Indian Territory and lived there nearly a decade before the remainder of the Cherokee were forced to join them.

Likewise, the remaining leaders of the Lower Towns proved to be the strongest advocates of voluntary westward emigration, in which they were most bitterly opposed by those former warriors and their sons who led the Upper Towns. Ultimately such leaders as Major Ridge (as The Ridge had been known since his military service during the Creek and First Seminole Wars), his son John Ridge, his nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie, came to believe that they needed to try to negotiate the best deal with the federal government, as they believed that removal would happen. Other emigration advocates were John Walker, Jr., David Vann, and Andrew Ross (brother of then Principal Chief John Ross). They agreed to the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, which resulted in the Cherokee removal in 1838–1839.

Later events[edit] Tecumseh's return[edit] in November 1811, Shawnee chief Tecumseh returned to the South hoping to gain the support of the southern tribes for his crusade to drive back the Americans and revive the old ways. He was accompanied by representatives from the Shawnee, Muscogee, Kickapoo, and Sioux peoples. Tecumseh's exhortations in the towns of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Lower Muscogee found no traction. He did attract some support from younger warriors of the Upper Muscogee. But, the Upper Muscogee headman, The Big Warrior, repudiated Tecumseh before the assembly.[citation needed]

The Cherokee delegation under The Ridge who visited Tecumseh's council at Tuckabatchee strongly opposed his plans; Tecumseh cancelled his visit to the Cherokee Nation, as The Ridge threatened him with death if he went there. But, during his recruiting tour, Tecumseh was accompanied by an enthusiastic escort of 47 Cherokee and 19 Choctaw, who presumably went north with him when he returned to the "Northwest Territory."[7][8]

War with the Creek[edit] Main article: Creek War Tecumseh's mission sparked a religious revival, referred to by anthropologist James Mooney as the "Cherokee Ghost Dance" movement.[9] It was led by the prophet Tsali of Coosawatee, a former Chickamauga warrior. He later moved to the western North Carolina mountains, where he was executed by US forces in 1838 for violently resisting Removal.

Tsali met with the national council at Ustanali, arguing for war against the Americans. He moved some leaders, until The Ridge spoke even more eloquently in rebuttal, calling instead for support of the Americans in the coming war with the British and Tecumseh's alliance. During the War of 1812, William McIntosh of the Lower Muscogee sought Cherokee help in the Creek War, to suppress the "Red Sticks" (Upper Muscogee). More than 500 Cherokee warriors served under Andrew Jackson in this effort, going against their former allies. [10][11]

A few years later, Major Ridge led a troop of Cherokee cavalry who were attached to the 1400-strong contingent of Lower Muscogee warriors under McIntosh in the First Seminole War in Florida. They were allied with and accompanied a force of U.S. regular Army, Georgia militia, and Tennessee volunteers into Florida for action against the Seminoles, refugee Red Sticks, and escaped slaves fighting against the United States.[12]

Warriors from the Cherokee Nation East traveled to the lands of the Old Settlers (or Cherokee Nation West) in Arkansas Territory to assist them during the Cherokee-Osage War of 1817–1823, in which they fought against the Osage. Following the Seminole War, Cherokee warriors, with only one exception, did not take to the warpath in the Southeast again until the time of the American Civil War, when William Holland Thomas raised the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders in North Carolina to fight for the Confederacy.

In 1830, however, the State of Georgia seized land in its south that had belonged to the Cherokee since the end of the Creek War, land separated from the rest of the Cherokee Nation by a large section of Georgia territory, and began to parcel it out to settlers. Major Ridge dusted off his weapons and led a party of thirty south, where they drove the settlers out of their homes on what the Cherokee considered their land, and burned all buildings to the ground, but harmed no one

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Dragging-Canoe

Dragging-canoe (translation of his Indian name, Tsíyu-gûnsíní known also as Cheucunsene and Kunnese). A prominent leader of those Cherokee who were hostile to the Americans during the Revolutionary war. He moved with his party to the site of Chickamauga, where he continued to harass the Tennessee settlements until 1782, when the Chickamauga towns were broken up. His people then moved farther down the river and established the “five lower towns,” but these also were destroyed in 1794. In accounts of the Creek war Dragging-canoe is mentioned as one of the prominent Cherokee chiefs in alliance with Jackson, and a participant in the last great encounter at Horseshoe Bend

Dragging Canoe

Tsiyu Gansini (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ), "He is dragging his canoe", known to whites as Dragging Canoe, (c. 1738 – March 1, 1792) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers. Beginning during the American Revolution, his forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes/nations, along with British Loyalists, French and Spanish agents. The series of conflicts, lasting for a decade after the American Revolutionary War, were known as Chickamauga Wars. Dragging Canoe became the pre-eminent war leader among the Indians of the Southeast of his time. He served as principal chief of the Lower Cherokee from 1777 until his death in 1792, when he was succeeded by his pick, John Watts.

Biography He was the son of Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter" in English), who was born to the Nipissing and captured and adopted as an infant by the Cherokee, making him one of the tribe. His mother was Nionne Ollie, born to the Natchez and adopted as a captive by Oconostota's household.[1] They lived with the Overhill Cherokee on the Little Tennessee River. Dragging Canoe survived smallpox at a young age, which left his face marked. According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood. He tried to prove his readiness for war by carrying a canoe, but could only drag it.

War chief of the Cherokee Dragging Canoe first took part in battle during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–1761). In its aftermath, he was recognized as one of the strongest opponents to encroachment by settlers from the British colonies onto American Indian, especially Cherokee, land. Eventually he became the chief of Great Island Town (Amoyeli Egwa in Cherokee, written Mialaquo by the British) on the Little Tennessee River. When the Cherokee opted to join in the fighting of the American Revolution on the side of the British, Dragging Canoe was at the head of one of the major attacks. After the colonial militias' destruction of the Cherokee Middle (Hill), Valley, and Lower Towns, his father and Oconostota wanted to sue for peace. Refusing to give up, Dragging Canoe led a band of the Overhill Cherokee out of the towns. They migrated to the area surrounding Chickamauga River (South Chickamauga Creek) in the present-day Chattanooga area, where they established eleven towns in 1777, including the one later referred to as "Old Chickamauga Town." It was across the river from where John McDonald had a trading post. From their location, they were called the Chickamauga by frontiersmen, who later called them the Lower Cherokee. In 1782 their towns were destroyed again. The band moved further down the Tennessee River, establishing the "Five Lower Towns" below the obstructions of the Tennessee River Gorge: Running Water (now Whiteside), Nickajack (near the cave of the same name), Long Island (on the Tennessee River), Crow Town (at the mouth of Crow Creek), and Lookout Mountain Town (at the site of the current Trenton, Georgia). From his base at Running Water, Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the American Southeast, especially against the colonists on the Holston, Watauga, and Nolichucky rivers in East Tennessee. He also attacked the Cumberland River settlements in Middle Tennessee (after 1780), and raided into Kentucky and Virginia as well. His brothers Little Owl, the Badger, and Turtle-at-Home fought with his forces.

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Death Dragging Canoe died March 1, 1792, from exhaustion or an apparent heart attack after dancing all night celebrating the recent conclusion of alliance with the Muskogee and the Choctaw. He did not succeed in reaching such an agreement with the Chickasaw. They were also celebrating a recent victory by a Chickamauga war band on the Cumberland River settlements.

Legacy He is considered by many to be the most significant Native Americans leader of the Southeast. Some historians consider him a role model for the younger Tecumseh, who was a member of a band of Shawnee living with the Chickamauga/Lower Cherokee and taking part in their wars. He picked John Watts, also known as Young Tassel, as his successor as war chief.

References [1] Klink and Talman, The Journal of Major John Norton, p. 42 • Alderman, Pat. Dragging Canoe: Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief, (Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 1978) • Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838, (Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938). • Evans, E. Raymond. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Dragging Canoe," Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 176–189. Cherokee: Museum of the Cherokee Indian, • Haywood, W.H. The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from its Earliest Settlement up to the Year 1796, (Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, 1891). • Klink, Karl, and James Talman, ed. The Journal of Major John Norton, (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1970). • McLoughlin, William G., Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992). • Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee. (Nashville: Charles and Randy Elder-Booksellers, 1982). • Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769–1923, Vol. 1. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923). • Ramsey, J. G. M., The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, 1853 (2007 Online Edition). (Rockwood, TN: RoaneTNHistory.org, 2007) (http:/ / www. roanetnhistory. org/ ramseysannalscontents. html).

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ID Number: I98313

TITLE: Chief OCCUPATION: Supreme Chief of the Cherokee 1760-1775. 'Civil' or "White Chief" RESIDENCE: Tellico, and Chota, E. Indian Nation, TN BIRTH: 1699, Big Island of the French Broad River, later called Sevier's Island, TN DEATH: 1797, Nacheztown, North Carolina RESOURCES: See: notes [S2706] Father: White Owl Raven

Mother: Nancy MOYTOY

Family 1 : Nionne Ollie of the Paint Clan

Dragging Canoe 7 years ago Flag Hide

Attacullaculla's name was also spelled Attakullaculla and he was knownalso as Ukwaneequa or Chuconnunta. The English translation of his name was Little Carpenter.

In 1735 he with a small group of other Cherokees, went to visit London.He was actually a rather small man, not much over 5 feet.

Most of the modern American History books contain the name of this man as having fought with the Americans in the American Revolution. His son, Dragging Canoe fought on the side of the British, the Chickamagua Cherokees.

Nancy and Attacullaculla were known as Peace Chiefs. During times of Peace the Chiefs wore white. The war council was composed of additional chiefs and only sat on the council during times of war. During times of war the chiefs wore Red. Thus the color white symbolized peace and the color red symbolized war.

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Attakullakulla, Supreme Chief of the Cherokee 1760 --1775. bd. Attakullakulla or Little Carpenter, was 'Civil' or 'White'Chief, and lived in Chota.

In 1735 he was taken along with a smallgroup of other Cherokees, to visit London. The Indians delighted the English residents and had their own eyes broadly opened to the attributes and strengths of white civilization. When they returned home, the English traders and officials made the most of this and over the next twenty years carefully cultivated the Cherokees by offering to help whenever the Cherokees needed it. Attakullakulla was especially responsive and in 1757 he would be instrumental in persuading the Governor of South Carolina to construct Fort Loudon to strengthen England's control over the area and to encourage more trade between the Cherokee and the Easterncoastal towns. In addition, the Chief invited at this time several more traders to set up headquarters in Chota and to take Cherokee wives.

Little is known of Attakullakulla's immediate family. His wife appears only rarely in the documentary record. In 1758 Attakullakulla wrote Lyttelton, "I deisre that you would send me a cloak for my wife," and once he tried to exchange two prisoners for two negro slaves to help her. In November, 1774 she accompanied him to North Carolina. In Bethabara husband and wife listened to the peal of the organ. he had heard many organs but she insited that the lid be reomved for she feared a child was trapped inside. In a letter dated 1766 she is mentioned, but nothing more. (Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter,1978 p. 27)

Attakullakulla, he was one of the few Cherokee leaders who depended not on words but on actions to secure a following. He commanded respect beacuse of his courage and fighting ability, which he ably demontrated in 1755 by netting five French prisoners in an expedition to the Illinois-Wasbash region, and by leading the unprecedented number of five hundred warriors to a decisive victory at Taliwa over the creeks, who were compelled to vacate nothern Georgia. (Supra, Jounal of Cherokee Studies.)

Cherokee Chief, 1760-1775

Notes on Attalullakulla from the Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1978

The date of Attakullakulla's birth is not known for certain, but was probably not before 1700 nor after 1712. Attakullakulla himself recalled that he was but a youth when he visited England in 1730. The youngest of the seven (who went) was Okoonaka, the White Owl, although some English newspapers persisted in calling him Captain Owean Nakan. He was probably in his twenties and was of remarkable small stature, slender and delicate frame. Although he was the youngest of the seven, he was related to the family from which many Cherokee leaders were drawn and was thus destined for greatness if he showed the mettle to grasp the opportunity which circumstances presented to hiim. He did, and he became Attakullakulla, whose voice was infulential, and often dominate, in the councils of the Cherokee Nation for nearly 50 years.

According to one of his contemporaries, Attakullakulla was born on the Big Island of the French Broad River, later called Sevier's Island. He was a child of the Overhill Towns which lay along the banks of the Little Tennessee and Hiwassie rivers.

Nothing is known of his mother except that she was a sister of Connecorte, better known as Old Hop, who was the nominal leader of the Cherokees during the 1750's.

Of his father we know only that he was a chief. (Endnote #6: ".......says Attakullakulla and Connecorte were cousins but the latter told the British that Attakullalulla was his nephew.")

In 1809 Major John Norton interviewed Turtle-At-Home, who claimed to be a son of Attakullakulla, who stated that his father was originally a Mishwakihha, one of the divisions of the Nipissing Indians., and had been captured as an infant and adopted by the Cherokees.) As the son of an important family, he was probably trained at an early age in the mysteries of statecraft and tribal tradition, but noting definetly is known of him until he first appears in the written records of 1730.

Children:

DRAGGING CANOE,

THE BADGER,

LITTLE OWL,

TURTLE-AT-HOME

Full Native American name: Onacona White Owl Attakullkulla or Attacullaculla of the Wolf Clan. - Also known as "Leaning Wood" - Known as "Peace Chief".

Onacona White Owl Leaning Wood; Principal Chief and Peace

Chief ATTAKULLAKULLA / Attacullaculla; from Atagulkalu from ata, meaning wood, and galkalu, meaning something or someone leaning. He was called The Little Carpenter by the British, because he was small in stature, but astute in negotiating treaties to benefit his people. He was born at Seviers Island, Tennessee in 1695, and died In Nachestown, North Carolina [now Tennessee] in 1797.

He was known by many names. I will list those we have found so far.

Ata'-gul-kalu "Prince of Chota" / Tathatowe / Tiftowe / Clogoittah / Chuconnunta /

U Ukwaneequa / Oukahakah / Oukounaka / Ouconaco / Ookoonaka /Ookeeneka / Truconita / Chugonanta Tommy / Chugonanta / Tommy of Tenase / Occounaco The White Owl / Chukenata Warrior /Ookanaska / and Little Corn Planter. There may be others.

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ALTERNATE NAMES: Cui Canacina, Savage Napoleon, Dragon (so called by his enemies). ALTERNATE SPELLINGS: Cheucunsene, Kunnese

MEANING OF NAMES: Tsi'yu-gunsini - Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini). Dragging Canoe - According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood in which he attempted to prove his readiness to go on the warpath by hauling a canoe, but he was only able to drag it.

Dragging Canoe (1738 - 1792) Chickamaugas Chief

"Dragging Canoe" (Tsi'yu-gunsini), the son of Attakullakulla (The Little Carpenter, so named for his skill at crafting treaty language acceptable to all) and cousin of Nancy Ward occupies much of my current research time. He was a fierce warrior, pockmarked by smallpox when a young child, tall and stately in appearance, and the primary leading force in the Cherokee's resistance to white settlement on Cherokee lands. He strongly resisted the sale of Cherokee lands to whites and spoke at treaty negotiations vehemently objecting to the continued sale of Cherokee land. At the conclusion of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals of 1775, Dragging Canoe spoke against the sale of Cherokee land. He rose and said "Whole Indian nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delawares? They have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former greatness. We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have passed the mountains, and have settled upon Cherokee land. They wish to have that action sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Cherokees. New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country, which the Cherokees and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and the remnant of Ani-Yunwiya, THE REAL PEOPLE, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness. There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to point out any further retreat for the miserable Cherokees, the extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than submit to further loss of our country? Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt or fight. As for me, I have my young warriors about me. We will have our lands. A-WANINSKI, I have spoken."

Dragging Canoe's mighty speech had such a strong influence on the chiefs that they closed the Treaty Council without more talk. Yet, the white men prepared another huge feast with rum and were able to persuade the Cherokee Chiefs to sit in another Treaty Council for further discussion of land sale. The land being sought was the primary hunting lands of the Cherokee. Attakullakulla, Dragging Canoe's father, spoke in favor of selling the land, as did Raven, who was jealous of Dragging Canoe's growing power among the young warriors. The deed was signed. Richard Henderson, being very bold, now that his plan was succeeding and they had bought such a huge portion of land, sought to secure a safe path to the new lands. Saying, "he did not want to walk over the land of my brothers", he asked to "buy a road" through Cherokee lands. This last insult was more than Dragging Canoe could tolerate. He became very angry and rising from his seat and stomping the ground he spoke saying "We have given you this, why do you ask for more? You have bought a fair land. When you have this you have all. There is no more game left between the Watauga and the Cumberland. There is a cloud hanging over it. You will find its settlement DARK and BLOODY." For the next 17 years Dragging Canoe did his best to make the white settlement of these lands "Dark and Bloody". He attacked the settlers at every opportunity. He became known as "The Dragon" because of his fierce fighting and relentless pursuit of destroying all white settlements on what he considered THE REAL PEOPLE'S land. Not much is written about his history, yet he was by far the most ferocious opponent the settlers faced. Although most references to Dragging Canoe speak of his "savage warrior" attributes in battle and even go so far as to label him such as did frontier historian John P. Brown by stating "The Savage Napoleon had found his life's work, he devoted his future to making the treaty (Treaty of Sycamore Shoals in 1775) null and void." And as mentioned above he was known as "The Dragon" - both a play on his name and a symbol of the fear he caused in the white settlers. Dragging Canoe had no thought of conquest or capture of the white settlers. He was driven by the vital need the Cherokee had for the hunting lands and could see the future would bring more and more white settlers unless the ones already on Cherokee hunting grounds were driven off. The women and young men of the Cherokee supported this position. The older chiefs attempted to obtain supplies by allowing white settlers to "lease" land, but my research tends to support a misunderstanding and maybe even outright forgery of papers at the Treaty at Sycamore Shoals in 1775. Old Tassel claimed that Oconostota did not sign the treaty documents. In 1785, he stated: "...The people of North Carolina have taken our lands without consideration, and are now making their fortunes out of them. I know Richard Henderson says he purchased the lands at Kentucky, and as far as Cumberland, but he is a liar, and if he were here, I would tell him so. If Attakullakulla signed this deed, we were not informed, but we know that Oconostota did not, yet we hear his name is to it. Henderson put it there, and he is a rogue." (Quote from Old Tassel's Speech 1785, in Old Frontiers, pg. 248-249.) Jesse Benton, the narrator of the Transylvania Purchase is reported to possibly have forged Alexander Cameron's signature on a letter and "it was so like his handwriting that it would be impossible to know that it was a forgery." The four principal chiefs (Old Tassel, Oconostota, Attakullakulla and Savanooka) all denied having sold any lands at this treaty. Attakullakulla, who understood and spoke English, would have been in a better position to understand what was actually being said and done. Others, even the principal chiefs and Dragging Canoe, were at a distinct disadvantage, not knowing the language being used to describe the proceedings and having to rely on interpreters, who might even have had something to gain by the Transylvania Purchase themselves! Attakullakulla later admitted to Henry Stuart "that he was the principal land jobber, and he was sorry for his behavior (quote from Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783). Savanooka told Henry Stuart in 1777: "You have been told that we disposed of our land contrary to the advice and desire of our father and our repeated promises to him. It’s true, we suffered the people first settled themselves on our land on Watauga to remain there some years, they paying us annually in guns, blankets and rum, etc. But we were informed lately that they gave out publicly that we sold the land to them forever and gave them a paper for it. If they have any paper of this kind, it is of their own making, for we have never given them any, as it was contrary to our thoughts...." (This is a quote from State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22). Henry Stuart wrote to John Stuart: "Some of the traders who were present at these transactions affirm this to be a true state of the case, and that they believe that under a pretence of taking leases and receipts for rent they got deeds signed" (quote from Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783). The above information regarding the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals and the Transylvania Purchase comes primarily from "Heart of the Eagle" By Brent Yanusdi Cox, 1999, PG 35-41. There is a significant amount of information available that seems to point to substantial misunderstandings regarding the "leasing" versus "purchasing" of land. It seems that of the four principal chiefs, only Attakullakulla may have understood what was actually going on. Don't you see why Dragging Canoe would become enraged at the travesty of these proceedings? He could see that the attempt was being made to take control of vast portions of the Cherokee traditional hunting grounds and he knew that meant the eventual end to Cherokee life, as he knew it. He was right! This Transylvania Purchase truly became the spearhead of massive settlement of the western lands. It must have seemed a never-ending stream of more and more white settlers pouring over the mountains, down the rivers, and across the Cherokee lands settling on the river bottoms, valleys and even hillsides of the ancestral lands of the Cherokee. To understand Dragging Canoe, we must look at more than just his rebellion against the settlement of Cherokee land during the period 1775 - 1792. First, we should look at just how he was given his name as a young boy. His courage and determination was evident at an extremely early age and he earned the respect of his elders while still a young boy. Secondly we need to also understand the impact of his childhood where he survived the ravage of Smallpox which was a disease brought by white settlers and for which Cherokee had no resistance. The onslaught of the disease in 1738 - 1739 resulted in the death of over half of the Cherokee people. Imagine the impact on a nation of people who "went to water" each morning in the cold rivers as a ritual cleansing when with a fever on them they took cold baths to rid them of illness when in fact the cold water only made their sickness worse. It is said that the Cherokee men who saw the death of so many threw away many of their special emblems of protection by the spirits and some even killed themselves after surviving the dread disease only to find themselves permanently scarred and pock marked. Dragging Canoe lived but he bore the marks of the dread disease Small Pox all his life and to his death in 1792.

At the great Cherokee council, held at their beloved town of Estanaula, June 26-30, 1792, the Black Fox pronounced the following eulogium on Dragging Canoe: "The Dragging Canoe has left the world. He was a man of consequence in his country. He was a friend both to his own and the white people. But his brother is still in place, and I mention now in public, that I intend presenting him with his deceased brother's medal; for he promises fair to possess sentiments similar to those of his brother, both with regard to the red and white. It is mentioned here publicly, that both whites and reds may know it, and pay attention to him."

Naky Sarah Tatsi Brown 1750–1850 Birth 1750 • Monroe, Overton County, Tennessee, USA Death JULY 1850 • Grayson County, Virginia, USA LifeStory Facts Gallery Navigation Research Tabs

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1790 40 Death of Mother Ugalogv Leaf Nellie PATHFINDER 6GGM(1734–1790) 1790 • Cherokee County, Alabama, USA

1790 40 Death of Father Cheucunsene Kunmesee Dragging Caneo 6GGF(1734–1792) 1 Mar 1792 • Old Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1806 56 Death of Sister Abigail CHEROKEE Caneo Bryant 5GGM(1750–1820) 1820 • Ashe, North Carolina, United States

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1736 28 Birth of Daughter Ghi Yo Sti Kolte "Bird"(1736–1780) 1736 • Bird, Conway, Arkansas, United States

1736 28 Birth of Son Tah Chee Tarchee Atta Kullakulla Oganstota(1737–1783) 1737 • Cherokee, Georgia, United States

1737 29 Birth of Daughter Ghi Go Ne Li Atta Kullakulla(1737–1810) 1737

1737 29 Birth of Son Badger Ocunna Ocuma Attakullakulla Ookuhmuh Hop(1738–1804) 1738 • Cherokee, Alabama, United States

1738 30 Birth of Son Little Owl Badger Moytoy Carpenter(1738–1793) 1738 • Overhill Settlements, Monroe, Tennessee, United States

1738 30 Birth of Child Little Owl Attakullakulla(1740–) 1740 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1740 32 Birth of Son Little White Raven(1740–1792) 1740 • Cherokee, Alabama, United States

1740 32 Birth of Child Ollie Mollie(1744–) 1744 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1744 36 Birth of Child Ooskiah Ooskuah Oskuah Attakullakulla(1746–) 1746 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1746 38 Birth of Son Black Fox Atta Kullakulla(1746–1792) 1746 • Eustanali, Cherokee, Alabama, United States

1746 38 Birth of Child Tahchee Attakullakulla(1748–) 1748 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1748 40 Birth of Child Lila Concene Attakullakulla(1755–) 1755 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1755 47 Birth of Child Teaskiyargi Tuskingo Attakullakulla(1755–1829) 1755 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1755 47 Birth of Child Wurtagua Paintclan Watts(1756–) 1756 • Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

1756 48 Birth of Daughter Ollie Polly Doysti Attakullakulla Moytoy Carpenter(1756–1818) 1756 • Cherokee, Washington, Tennessee, United States

1756 48 Birth of Son Turtle At Home(1758–1809) 1758 • Cherokee, Alabama, United States

1758 50 Birth of Daughter Wurtagua MoytoyCarpenter(1760–) 1760

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38782478/dragging_canoe-attakul...

Chief Dragging Canoe Tsiyu Gansini ( Known as the Great Warrior ) He was the adopted son of Attakullakulla & Nione Ollie Spouse Ailsey U'ga'lo'gv Nelly Pathkiller Daughter of Chief Nunna'hi-dihi Samuel Pathkiller & Sukey Martin Dragging Canoe. Chief Dragging Canoe, Cherokee War Chief born 1733 Over hill Settlements (Otari), Monroe Co. TN died 1 March 1792 Lookout Town, Tennessee. It was said that Dragging Canoe danced all night in a spiritual dance called the Ghost Dance and that he had a high fever and had been ill for sometime and 1792 he entered into the great spirit world... Dragging Canoe grew up around the Cherokee leaders but he also lived near Fort Loudon where he became friends with Captain John Stuart, he was a soldier at Fort Loudon who was adopted by Attakullakulla and who later became Superintendent of Indian Affairs. John Stuart left for Keowee ,SC and took Dragging Canoe with him on his journey to Ft. Prince George. John Stuart was also given the name aka Bushyhead by the Native Americans for his thick blond hair. Chief Dragging Canoe died the 1st of March 1792 at Running Water where he was buried, this village was near the present Hale's Bar below Chattanooga Running Water, the mountain stream, which continues to bear it,s old name.

Nellie Pathkiller (U Ga Lo Gv Leaf) is the daughter of Chief I Pathkiller and Cherokee Indian Peggy, She was born 1734 in Alabama.She died 1790 in , Cherokee, Georgia, USA

Chief Dragging Canoe and Nellie Pathkiller (U Ga Lo Gv Leaf). Their 6 children

1. Little Dragging Canoe, He was born 1745 in , , Tennessee, USA, He died 1836 in Span, Johnson, Georgia, USA 2. Talotiskee Canoe,He was born 1782 3. Gi Yo Sti Canoe,She was born 1770 4. Eyoostee Canoe 5. Crying Snake Canoe 6. Little Owl Doe,He was born 1753 ................................................................................................................................. Dragging Canoe born abt 1734, The Overhill Settlements (now Monroe Co., TN); died 1 MAR 1792, Lookout Town, TN

Father: Attakullakulla or Attacullaculla Mother: Ollie Ani'-Wa'Ya Spouse: Leaf Children noted above 1. Little Young Dragging Canoe 2. Little Young Owl Doe 3. +Sarah Canoe

Links: Dragging Canoe History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragging_Canoe

http://grundycountyhistory.org/05_Res/Native/OUR%20CHEROKEE%20HERIT...

Special note by the biographer Firefox Captain John Stuart aka indian name "Bushyhead" my direct 5th great grandfather.

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Family Members Parents Photo Little Carpenter Attakullakulla 1708–1778

Spouse Nelly Ugalogv Pathkiller Attakullakulla 1735–1792

Children Photo Nettle Carrier

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Chief Dragging Canoe Tsiyu Gansini ( Known as the Great Warrior ) Adopted son of Attakullakulla & Nione Ollie Spouse Ailsey U'ga'lo'gv Nelly Pathkiller Daughter of Chief Nunna'hi-dihi Samuel Pathkiller & Sukey Martin Dragging Canoe.Chief Dragging Canoe, Cherokee War Chief born 1733 Over hill Settlements (Otari),Monroe Co. TN died March 1,1792 Lookout Town, Tennessee.It was said that Dragging Canoe danced all night in a spiritual dance called the Ghost Dance and that he had a high fever and had been ill for sometime and on March 1, 1792 he entered into the great spirit world... Dragging Canoe grew up around the Cherokee leaders but he also lived near Fort Loudon where he became friends with Captain John Stuart,he was a soldier at Fort Loudon who was adopted by Attakullakulla and who later became Superintendent of Indian Affairs.John Stuart left for Keowee and took Dragging Canoe with him on his journey to Ft. Prince George.John Stuart was also given the name aka Bushyhead by the Indians for his thick blond hair.

Chief Dragging Canoe was born 1734 in Over-hill Settlements, Monroe, Tennessee, USA He died in Lookout Town, Tennessee, USA Dragging Canoe died in March 1792 at Running Water where he was buried. This village was near the present Hale's Bar below Chattanooga Running Water, the mountain stream, which continues to bear its old name.

Nellie Pathkiller (U Ga Lo Gv Leaf) is the daughter of Chief I Pathkiller and Cherokee Indian Peggy,She was born 1734 in Alabama.She died 1790 in , Cherokee, Georgia, USA

Chief Dragging Canoe and Nellie Pathkiller (U Ga Lo Gv Leaf). Their 6 children

1. Little Dragging Canoe, He was born 1745 in , , Tennessee, USA,He died 1836 in Span, Johnson, Georgia, USA 2. Talotiskee Canoe,He was born 1782 3. Gi Yo Sti Canoe,She was born 1770 4. Eyoostee Canoe 5. Crying Snake Canoe 6. Little Owl Doe,He was born 1753 ................................................................................................................................. Dragging Canoe born abt 1734, The Overhill Settlements (now Monroe Co., TN); died 1 MAR 1792, Lookout Town, TN

Father: Attakullakulla or Attacullaculla Mother: Ollie Ani'-Wa'Ya Spouse: Leaf Children noted above 1. Little Young Dragging Canoe 2. Little Young Owl Doe 3. +Sarah Canoe

Links: Dragging Canoe History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragging_Canoe

http://grundycountyhistory.org/05_Res/Native/OUR%20CHEROKEE%20HERIT...

Special note by the biographer Firefox Captain John Stuart aka indian name "Bushyhead" my direct 5th great grandfather.

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Daniel Nesbit 1/2/2018 at 11:27 AM Report My name is Daniel Nesbit of Portsmouth Ohio, I don' know about the Trail of Tears part but her husband Thomas Chandler was one of the man and captain from Revolution area the help maped out Cabell and Wayne County West Virginia. that's how they came to live and die there! They were my 5th great grand parents.She was the daughter of a Nipissing idain raised Cherokee chief named Attakullakulla. and he has a lot of history being one of 7 Cherokees to be invited by the king of England to come over, he was about 16/17 years of age at the time, the youngest of the 7. Daniel.