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Dragging Canoe, “The Savage Napoleon”(c. 1738 to 1792)Slide2
“We Are Not Yet Conquered”
Dragging Canoe was one of the
Cherokee
tribe’s most devoted chiefs.
He
angrily opposed the terms of the deal
in
which the Cherokee Nation signed away some of their valuable land to the whites and received very little in return. He broke away from the Cherokees in 1776, forming an aggressive wing of the tribe known as the Chickamauga Cherokees.
Dragging
Canoe strongly recommended that the patriotic Cherokees part from the tribe. After this episode, they settled at various places along the main stream in the south known as the Chickamauga Creek. Therefore, it was appropriate to call them
Chickamaugan’s
.
Dragging
Canoe was the son of the famous narrator, Chief
Attakullakulla
.
For
his headquarters, Dragging Canoe chose the site of an ancient Creek village on the Chickamauga near present day northeastern Chattanooga, Tennessee. Slide3
Original Cherokee Territory Slide4Slide5Slide6
Land Boundaries for the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals Slide7
(Tsiyu Gansini
) – “he is dragging his Canoe”Slide8
The Chickamauga Theater of War (Native Trails - yellow routes)Slide9
Pioneer Forts & Stations in Middle TennesseeSlide10
The Battle of the Bluffs at the French Lick 1781 Slide11Slide12
Cherokee Lands by 1783 Slide13
The Battle of Buchanan’s Station 1792Slide14
Buchanans Station Marker at Elm Hill Pike & Massman
Drive in Nashville TNSlide15
The death of Isaac Bledsoe at Bledsoe’s Station in 1793 was a direct result of the Chickamauga presence in Middle Tennessee Slide16
The location of Bledsoe’s Station – Sumner County Tennessee