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Angry and disgusted with his father Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter") for selling more land to whites, and wanting his people to be able to live away and apart from whites, Dragging Canoe led a band out of the Cherokee nation down to Chickamauga Creek in the Chattanooga area. This location gave his group their name, the Chickamauga. Living above the Suck at the mouth of Suck Creek several miles downriver, the Chickamauga were exposed to many American attacks. He and his group subsequently moved to "Lower Towns" below the Suck: Running Water (now Whiteside) and Nickajack. From Running Water, Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the Southeast. He died in 1792, from exhaustion or an apparent heart attack after dancing all night celebrating an attack on Nashville. He is considered by many to be the most significant leader of the Southeast. For other uses, see White (disambiguation). ... Chattanooga is a city located in United States of America. ... The Chickamauga are a Native American people related to the Cherokee people. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ...
The Settlement of the Appalachian Frontier: DraggingCanoe
DraggingCanoe was said to be a few years older than his cousin Nancy Ward (born 1738), daughter of Tame Doe who was the sister of Attakullakulla.
His name, "Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini)" or DraggingCanoe, was given him because of the persistence and determination he displayed; character traits that would later serve to keep him and his loyal followers fighting the white settlers under most adverse conditions.
Those that followed DraggingCanoe were of the opinion that the Civil Chiefs were selling out to the white man and they were becoming more and more angry at the continued requests of the white man for Cherokees to sell their lands by the trading of mere trinkets for quality real estate.
DraggingCanoe told the white man that the land they wished to settle would prove to be to them a Dark and Bloody Ground, and it indeed did become known as an area in which many bloody battles were fought where many settlers and Indians both lost their lives.
DraggingCanoe in the meantime was now aware that he had been betrayed, yet he still attacked the Holston River settlements including Eton Station with 700 warriors, and Raven of Chota then follwed in an attack on Carter's Valley, and Old Abram then attacked Ft. Watauga.
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