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Date Posted: 10:06:50 06/21/01 Thu
Author: vance
Author Host/IP: pm07145.intellisys.net / 64.243.58.145
Subject: Re: Some information about the Chickamauga
In reply to: vance 's message, "Re: Some information about the Chickamauga" on 06:13:45 06/20/01 Wed

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

Dragging Canoe died in 1792, but a new round of violence exploded that year with the American settlements in Central Tennessee and Northern Alabama. After two years of fighting with Tennessee Militia, support from other Cherokee declined, and the Chickamaugans resolve to fight began to weaken. Following the American victory at Fallen Timbers (1794), the last groups of the Ohio Chickamauga returned to Tennessee. Meanwhile, the Spanish government had decided to settle its border disputes with the United States by diplomatic means and ended its covert aid to the Cherokees. After a final battle near Muscle Shoals in Alabama, the Chickamauga realized it was impossible to stop the Americans by themselves. By 1794 large groups of Chickamauga had started to cross the Mississippi and settled with Western Cherokee in Spanish Arkansas. The migration was complete by 1799, and open warfare between the Cherokee and the Americans ended.

The Western Cherokee or "Old Settlers" had their origin with a small group of pro-French Cherokee that moved to Northern Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri after the French defeat by the Brittish in 1763. The Spanish welcomed them and granted land. Toward the end of the American Revolution in 1782, they were joined by a group of pro-Brittish Cherokee. With the migration of the Chickamauga (1794-1799), The Western Cherokee became formidable and a threat to the Osage who originally claimed the territory. Cherokee and Osage warfare was fairly common in 1803 when the United States gained control of the area through the Louisiana Purchase. With continued migration, the Western Cherokee steadily gained at the expense of the Osage.

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Well, that's about all Dr. McClure says about the Chickamauga . . .

vance hawkins

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