Wahunsonacock biography of alberta
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Native American Rhetorical Traditions
"The Cherokee People Stand Upon New Ground," Address to the Cherokee National Assembly, delivered at Tahlequah, OK, October 9, 1861 by John Ross. [scroll down to the lower portion of the article to read the ord of the speech]
From John Ross to Abraham Lincoln, September 16, 1862 [manuscript]
John Ross (Cherokee: ᎫᏫᏍᎫᏫ, romanized: guwisguwi)(1790 – 1866), the son of a Cherokee mother and a Scottish father, was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. During the War of 1812, he served as adjutant of a Cherokee regiment under the command of Andrew Jackson. After the War ended, Ross started a tobacco plantation in Tennessee, built a warehouse and trading post on the stat i usa River, and started a ferry service. In 1816, as part of a Cherokee delegation to Washington, DC, and the only delegate fluent in English, he helped negotiate national boundaries, nation ownership and white encroachment. Later, Ross petitioned församling for
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The Powhatan Remnants
melungeons.com
2001
Helen Campbell
Prior to the white man’s arrival in America, a chain of separate but interacting Algonquian communities thrived along the Atlantic coastline. The Indians thrived in communities from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When warm weather arrived, the Indians used the coastline for fishing and hunting. In the southern regions Indians turned to the planting of crops for foodstuff. Some of the Southeastern Indians tribes became extinct almost immediately upon contact with the explorers from the Old World; the contact with the Indians was catastrophic because the foreign ships carried a plague of diseases. The Native Americans didn’t have any immunity to the diseases, which resulted in epidemics and the deaths of millions of Native Americans. The first African slaves were transported to the Americas in 1510 thus transmitting new diseases from Africa to the Native Americans. In 1551, the English voyager • The Bowl (also Chief Bowles); (Cherokee: Di'wali) (ca. 1765 – July 16, 1839) was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars, served as a Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation–West, and was a leader of the Texas Cherokees (Tshalagiyi nvdagi). Di'wali was born around 1765 in Little Hiwassee, a Cherokee town in current-day North Carolina. His mother was Cherokee, and his father was a Scottish trader. Emmet Starr, an early historian of the Cherokee, describes Bowles as "being decidedly Gaelic in appearance, having light eyes, red hair, and somewhat freckled."Di'wali was a follower of Dragging Canoe, one of the founders of the Chickamauga Cherokee who supported the British during the American Revolutionary War, and Di'wali fought under Dragging Canoe and John Watts during the Cherokee-American Wars. During this time, Di'wali had attained the chief of the Running Water Town (present-day Muscle Shoals, Alabama). After the destruction of the Chickamaug