Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, c. 1738 – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors who...

were extended periods with little or no action. The Cherokee leader Dragging Canoe, whom some historians call "the Savage Napoleon", and his warriors,...

the winter of 1776–77, the followers of the skiagusta (war chief), Dragging Canoe, moved with him down the Tennessee River away from their historic Overhill...

chief of the Cherokee Nation), The Badger (Dragging Canoe's brother), and Rising Fawn. In 1792, Dragging Canoe died suddenly on March 1, 1792, but he had...

forces in the Overmountain region of the American frontier. In mid-July, Dragging Canoe, Oconostota , and The Raven led a surprise attack on the Overmountain...

offered his war belt, and Dragging Canoe (Tsiyugunisini) and Abraham of Chilhowee (Tsulawiyi) accepted it. Dragging Canoe also accepted belts from the...

forces of John Sevier's Washington District Regiment and those of Chief Dragging Canoe of the Chickamauga Cherokee, may have taken place on Lookout Mountain...

surviving Cherokee town leaders signed treaties with the new states. Dragging Canoe and his band settled along Chickamauga Creek near present-day Chattanooga...

including Cherokee leaders such as Attacullaculla, Oconostota, and Dragging Canoe. In the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (also known as the Treaty of Watauga)...

Treaty was disavowed by some of the chiefs. A dissident Cherokee chief, Dragging Canoe, refused to sign, endorse, or obey the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, declaring...

present-day Chattanooga). The warriors were mostly Cherokee men, led by Dragging Canoe. Small groups of Shawnee and Creek lived and fought with them, in addition...

Americans referred to as the Chickamauga Cherokee; they were led by Dragging Canoe. Many other tribes were similarly divided. When the British made peace...

The break-away Chickamauga band (or Lower Cherokee), under War Chief Dragging Canoe (Tsiyugunsini, 1738–1792), had retreated to and inhabited a mountainous...

in the growing contest between the colonists and Britain, but Chief Dragging Canoe considered the war an opportunity to resist the continual encroachment...

with Dragging Canoe marching north to attack the Holston settlements and Old Abraham marching east to attack Fort Watauga. As Dragging Canoe approached...

tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to around 1775. His son was Dragging Canoe, the first leader of the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee tribes...

continued to demand that the settlers leave. A band of Cherokee led by Dragging Canoe disagreed with the tribe's sale of communal lands, and began making...

European-American frontiersmen and the Chickamauga band warriors led by Dragging Canoe. He was murdered in 1788 along with another chief at Chilhowee by white...

encroaching Americans and moved further south. Under the war chiefs Dragging Canoe, Black Fox, and Little Turkey, they settled many additional locations...

was a Cherokee warrior and leader, brother and chief lieutenant of Dragging Canoe, a war-chief in the Cherokee–American wars. In the beginning and the...

European-American settlers from their lands. Ward's cousin, the war chief, Dragging Canoe, wanted to ally with the British against the settlers, but Nanyehi wanted...

who prepared their defenses. The first prong of the attack, led by Dragging Canoe, was defeated by colonists at Heaton's Station. The second and third...

the settlers, whom they regarded as trespassers. The Cherokee, led by Dragging Canoe, frequently attacked isolated settlers and hunters, convincing many...

Jersey Canoe Creek State Park, a state park in Pennsylvania Canoe Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania Canoe.com, a Canadian web portal Dragging Canoe, a...

1788–1794 opposed by Hanging Maw (or Scolaguta), served 1788–1794 In 1777, Dragging Canoe and a large body of Cherokee, primarily from Tennessee, separated from...

1776, in what is now eastern Tennessee but was Cherokee territory. Dragging Canoe of Great Island led the attack on the settlements along the Holston...

expedition to the Overhill Cherokee. Ostenaco later was allied with Dragging Canoe, another Cherokee leader. Cherokee military history Ghigau, First Beloved...

Little Tennessee River, he sporadically took part in the campaigns of Dragging Canoe as they were under a flag of truce during an embassy to the State of...

the signing, Dragging Canoe pointed to the west and said " A dark cloud hangs over that land known as the bloody grounds" Dragging Canoe did not accept...

of Kentucky from the Cherokee in 1775. The renegade Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe did not agree to the sale, nor did the Royal Government in London, which...