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Dragging Canoe was the son of Attakullakulla (Tsalagi, or "Little Carpenter")—a Nipissing head-man—and Nionne Ollie ("Tame Doe"). [b] Many members of these two Native American groups then lived with the Cherokee [c] and had adapted to Cherokee society. [d] Attakullakulla, Dragging Canoe's father, was born to the Nipissing near Lake Superior.
When Dragging Canoe made his speech, [21] it can be argued he was not especially opposed to the sale of the lands around what is now Frankfort or Louisville or even Nashville. Dragging Canoe was opposed to selling the lands along the Holston and Watauga and Nolichucky rivers of East Tennessee.
Dragging Canoe, chief of Great Island Town (Amoyeli Egwa) and son of Attakullakulla, refused to accept the deal: "You have bought a fair land, but there is a cloud hanging over it; you will find its settlement dark and bloody". [10] The governors of Virginia and North Carolina repudiated the Watauga treaty, and Henderson fled to avoid arrest.
Dragging Canoe relocated his people west and southwest, into new settlements in Georgia centered on Running Water (now Whiteside) on Running Water Creek. The other towns founded at this time were: Nickajack (near the cave of the same name), Long Island (on the Tennessee River), Crow Town (at the mouth of Crow Creek), and Lookout Mountain Town (at the site of the current Trenton, Georgia).
Dragging Canoe had been correct. On May 9, 1775, Henderson noted in his journal an encounter with Captain Harrod, who had already established his company on the Salt River, well with in the boundaries of the Great Grant. [20] Many others, including both Indians and various politicians, also expressed opposition to the treaty. [21]
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