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Dragging Canoe, “The Savage Napoleon” (c. 1738 to 1792)

Dragging Canoe, the son of Chief Attakullakulla, fiercely opposed the Cherokee Nation's land deals with the whites and founded the aggressive Chickamauga Cherokee. Learn about the Cherokee wars and settlements in Tennessee.

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Dragging Canoe, “The Savage Napoleon” (c. 1738 to 1792)

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  1. Dragging Canoe, “The Savage Napoleon”(c. 1738 to 1792)

  2. “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.

  3. Original Cherokee Territory

  4. Land Boundaries for the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals

  5. (TsiyuGansini) – “he is dragging his Canoe”

  6. The Chickamauga Theater of War (Native Trails - yellow routes)

  7. Pioneer Forts & Stations in Middle Tennessee

  8. The Battle of the Bluffs at the French Lick 1781

  9. Cherokee Lands by 1783

  10. The Battle of Buchanan’s Station 1792

  11. Buchanans Station Marker at Elm Hill Pike & Massman Drive in Nashville TN

  12. The death of Isaac Bledsoe at Bledsoe’s Station in 1793 was a direct result of the Chickamauga presence in Middle Tennessee

  13. The location of Bledsoe’s Station – Sumner County Tennessee

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