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Date Posted: 18:23:40 06/19/01 Tue
Author: vance
Author Host/IP: pm10084.intellisys.net / 64.243.59.84
Subject: Re: Some information about the Chickamauga
In reply to: vance 's message, "Some information about the Chickamauga" on 15:54:24 06/19/01 Tue

More from Dr. Tony McClure's "Cherokee Proud" about the Chickamaugans, continuing where we stopped --

Despite the fact that these agreements were a clear violation of existing Brittish law, they were used later to justify the American takeover of the region. The Shawnee also claimed these lands, but of course, they were never consulted. With the Iriqoois selling the Shawnees lands north of the Ohio, and the Cherokee selling Shawnee lands south, where could they go? Not surprizingly, the Shawnees stayed and fought the Americans for 40 years. Both the Cherokees and the Iriquois were fully aware of the problem they were creating. After he signed, a Cherokee chief reputedly took Daniel Boone aside to say, "We have sold you much fine land, but I am afraid you will have trouble if you try to live there."

Not all of the Cherokee honored these agreements. . . . Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga refused and kept raiding the new settlements. At the outbreak of the revolution, the Cherokee received requests from the Mohawk, the Shawnee, and Ottawa to join them against the Americans, but the majority of the Cherokee decided to remain neutral in the White man's war. The Chickamauga however, were at war with the Americans and formed an alliance with the Shawnee. Both tribes had the support of the Brittish Indian agents who were still living among them (often with native wives) and arrainging trade. During 1775 the Brittish began to supply large ammounts of guns and ammunition and offered bounties for American scalps. In July 1776, 700 Chickamaugans attacked two American forts in North Carolina, Eaton's Station and Fort Watauga. Both assaults failed, but the raids set off a series of attacks by other Cherokee and upper Creek on fronteir settlements in Tennessee and Alabama.

more later about the Chickamauga.

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