Re: Special Invite - Notoweega Gathering
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Special Invite - Notoweega Gathering
Marshall 5/08/07
excerpts from Genealogy section at
http://notoweega.org/powwow/2007forms/2007gathering.htmhttp://notoweega.org/powwow/2007forms/2007gathering.htm
In 1705, there were complaints from North Carolina that the South Carolina governor's trade in Native American slaves had so angered the tribes that an Indian war was inevitable. Several tribes, including the Cherokee, assisted colonists in driving out their mutual enemy, the Tuscarora, in a war that lasted from 1711-1713.
However, with the Tuscarora out of the way, the tribes begin to address their grievances with the colonists -- primarily the sale of Native Americans into slavery despite agreements to discontinue this practice. The result was the Yamasse War, in 1715, in which the combined tribes of the old Cafitachiqui Confederacy (Chicorana/Yupaha) in the region threatened to wipe-out the South Carolina Colony. Ultimately, the colonists were able to mass their forces and after achieving several victories the tribes began to sue for peace. Peace was made with the Cherokee who were given a large quantity of guns and ammunition in exchange for their alliance with the colony.
In 1721, a treaty was signed with South Carolina to systematize trade but the most significant condition was the establishment of a fixed boundary between the Cherokee and the colony which was the first land cession made by the Cherokee to the Europeans. The population of the Cherokee Nation was probably 16,000-17,000 including 6,000 warriors. Although allied with the English, the Cherokee began to favor the French who had established Fort Toulouse near present Montgomery AL. The French showed greater respect for the Indians than the British who considered them an inferior race. (It should be noted that the English also considered non-English whites as inferior).
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Like many mestizos who had remained in the East, the Bates family members were eventually enumerated as White on the census reports of South Carolina. In the early years the Bates family members married often into other families of Indian descent i.e. the Wyndhams (Coosa Indians), Hills, Bings,Chavis (this family married into the Reeds), Bush, Buzby, Scotts, Simmons, Springs (Chickasaw), Welch (Chickamauga Seminole), Morris (Cherokee), Combee, etc.
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To inquire of the possibility Cummings is a derivative of Combee, I've attempts several methods of contacting this assumed tribal group without success.Can anyone supply accurate contact information?
Lester Knough Cummings
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