a "known" Indian Justice
Alot of questions about some of the Justus/Justice being Indian. Came across this. Sorry that it is so long.
This is some history about some people and things that I admire. Again this is not part of the Northern Tsalagi Nation Page.
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Tsiyu-gunsi-ni (Dragging Canoe)
In March, 1775, the council was negotiating with the Transylvania Company for the sale of land which is today Kentucky and middle Tennessee. This sale was violently opposed by Dragging Canoe, Chief of Big Island Town and the son of Attakullaculla. Dragging Canoe never attended another Cherokee- American Treaty and pledged to make the settlements of the sold lands "dark and bloody".
Dragging Canoe embarked on a war trail against settlements in Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas that would last for seventeen years. The militia of these states retaliated by destroying Indian towns and crops. Most of the Cherokee inhabitants escaped into the hills.
During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee, like most other Indian tribes, formed an alliance with the British with the hope of protecting themselves from further white encroachment. The British also provided hatchets. rifles, ammunition, and bounties for rebel scalps.
In June, 1776, whites dressed as Indians destroyed crops and cattle and slaughtered men, women, and children. Once again the whites retaliated sending 6500 men to strike the Nation from four directions during August and September of 1776. More than fifty Cherokee towns were destroyed…livestock was killed, captives were tortured , and women and children were made slaves.
The old chiefs wanted peace but Dragging Canoe wanted to vacate the old towns, move south, and continue to fight. During the winter of 1776-77, Dragging Canoe and his followers built new settlements in the Chickamauga Creek area of Georgia, thus they became known as Chickamaugans.
Most of the Nation lay ravaged and helpless in 1777. An uneasy peace was made with the separate American states, at the cost of five million acres of land.
The band of die-hard Chickamaugan Cherokee, under the leadership of Dragging Canoe and his lieutenants, Bob Benge, John Watts, The Glass, Turtle at Home, Richard Justice, The Bench, Doublehead, And Black Fox, held out against the enemy. Their guerrilla raids, from their camps near present-day Chattanooga, left a trail of scalps, murdered victims, and ruined crops.
On March 1, 1792, Dragging Canoe died, having devoted his life to saving Cherokee culture and the belief that "We are not yet conquered". The reason for his death is unknown. Some attributed his death to past wounds; others, to the exertion of all night dancing.
John Watts became War Chief of the Chickamaugans at Dragging Canoes death and continued to lead the fight against the whites until 1794, at which time he decided to try diplomatic efforts.
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