EDITORIAL: This letter is from 1792 and the 1785 Hopewell Treaty is the supreme law of the land. The 1785 Treaty gave the Chickamauga the right and authority to execute any and all squatters who came into their lands and refused to leave. There were no innocent "whites" who were executed within the Treaty boundaries because they were guilty of numerous violations of the laws of the United States and the Hopewell Treaty.
Blount Warning To The Cherokees
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The address of Governor Blount to the chiefs and others of the Cherokees in which he cites a long list of depredations by the Indians on innocent whites, including women and children. He warns the chiefs that the violence must stop and the terms of the Treaty of Holston followed or the whites will retaliate with no regard for the age or sex of their victims.
notable phrase - What has happened since the treaty has appeared in a very bad light to the white people. With difficulty I have restrained those whose relations have been killed or scalped or made prisoners, and those whose horses have been stolen, from falling on the Indians, without regard to age or sex, and taking instantly what they termed satisfaction.
notable phrase - What has happened since the treaty has appeared in a very bad light to the white people. With difficulty I have restrained those whose relations have been killed or scalped or made prisoners, and those whose horses have been stolen, from falling on the Indians, without regard to age or sex, and taking instantly what they termed satisfaction.
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(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.