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We Are Tsigamogi

Attakullakulla's Ghost

February 10, 2025
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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.

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After years of friendship with the Author of Attakullakulla's Ghost, the author has been invited to be a guest author for Talontuskee’s Talking Leaves

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We Are Tiscamogee

 

We are Tsigamogi Eshheeloarchie from Dagunawelohi. We have been immortalized by the muse of history. But what tongue can speak or pen indict a tribute to the documented truth of our origins and still struggling existence?

 

Hostile history or erroneous lore is neither refreshing nor enriching to our youth. The true retrospective view of events must be fully exposed and related so history will not be swayed by fraud or documented genocide.

 

It is imperative to understand that the Chickamauga history has been purged or rewritten to devalue our identity as a separate People.

 

Can one band of People secede from a Nation? For a nation to suppress such an act provides for its own destruction. The use of force against that band is a declaration of war. To attack that band is a dissolution of all previous internal compacts by which it might be bound. When a nation’s abuse of power towards its People is explicitly understood, then the band regains their sovereignty and are no longer under the jurisdiction of that nation. Understand, there is no constitutional law prohibiting secession from an abusive nation, the abusive nation has no right to prevent it, and it certainly has no right to make aggressive action toward or against the seceding band. The nation that uses genocide, for their own benefit, perverts its power for sectional advantage and demands a monopoly of that nation’s race and rights and must be called to answer for their wrongs. The band of separatists must demand this in the name of protection of title to their own identity.

 

The separation of the Chickamauga People from the Cherokee is documented by the US War Department records, September 13, 1792 (John Sevier to Gov. William Blount – notification of divide in Cherokee Nation five Lower Towns declare war), November 6, 1792 (President George Washington’s Fourth Annual Message to Congress identifying Chickamauga), and November 26,1792 (Henry Knox to William Blount and the conflict with Chickamauga) to name a few.

 

The Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1770-1803, recognize the Chickamauga capital at Running Water, TN.  Again, he responds in agreement with the division on January 9, 1809.  (The Writings of Thomas Jefferson XVI,455-58) The Treaty of 1785 was signed by Chickamauga Chiefs. The history of our existence is well documented. The Cherokee Nation’s history claims our Chiefs and is changing history in doing so.

 

My name is Attakullakulla I was born Nipissing from Canada, as documented through the Champlain Society of Canada indicates. My wife, Noinne Ollie, was born Natchez. My grandfather Amatoya Moytoy is also not Cherokee. His father is Thomas Passmere Carpenter, an Englishman from Jamestown, VA and his mother is Chalakatha Shawano Pride, Powhatan. My son Dragging Canoe is not Cherokee. These facts are documented in the Virginia Archives.

 

Why the change of identity? Why did Oconastota banish myself and family in the wilderness and why did Oconastota give TN Militia the Cherokee National Archives? Why did John Ross take those archives to Washington, DC during the Civil War? Why did John Ross choose to not send requested aid to Chief Bowls in Texas in 1839? Why did John Ross collect the national records from the Old Settlers (Chickamauga) in 1840? Will the curious research the answers or go to the ones perpetuating the corruption of history? All these questions come to one conclusion – to eradicate the Chickamauga history.

 

Erroneous lore of Sequoyah’s syllabary being created in the 1820’s leads our youth to false beliefs. The Spanish Treaty and American treaties were signed in syllabary decades before the 1820’s.

 

The systematic destruction of a substantial part of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group used with the intention of destroying the entire identity is a crime of genocide, whether committed during war or peace. Is the expulsion from a country, especially the country of one’s origin or long-time residence, a crime? Cherokee National Law 139-141, passed October 31, 1829, lays out provisions relating to citizens removing to Arkansas (enrolled emigrants shall be treated as non-citizens and enrolled emigrants are intruders).

 

These non-citizens are identified by the Indian Affairs Department, December 31, 1820, by Thomas L. McKenney to Governor Pope (one thousand, thirty Chickamauga are at Dardanelle Rock, Arkansas). These People were banished to destroy their identity. The Chickamauga People had their own government as documented by the Arkansas Preservation Program. In 1838, John Ross outlawed their government and two years later, authorized Alexander Foreman to collect all public papers and records of the Chickamauga People to be delivered to the Cherokee National Council/John Ross. This is an act that eradicated the actions of the 1809 Willstown Compact.  

 

The act of doing something with an intent to give some advantage, inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others, the use of office to procure some benefit, either personally or for someone else, is contrary to the rights of others.

 

The denial of the Chickamauga People corrupts history and violates the fiduciary duty of treaties giving peace to all the Cherokee and receive them into favor and protection of the United States, as stated in the November 28, 1785 Treaty, [ Art.7 Stat 18].

 

The accredited representative of a trust relationship has been abandoned, swayed by documented fraud of history and the acceptance of genocide. Are laws, treaties and history set in stone or are they for sale to the highest bidder? These inherent rights are retained, are for our future generations. These rights are not corporate logos worn by representatives in our state or federal capital. The actual documented history, stated by the People, is for the People. The People cannot dictate the moral conscious of a representative, but the People can remind them of a fiduciary responsibility and expose an incompetence of their knowledge of the US Constitution and law which they are obligated by their oath to enforce, law that binds the judicial system. Who represents the Chickamauga People? We do! The People who have been exiled, massacred, denied, betrayed, and estranged from our rights and identity – a muse of history. Any rebuttal to these facts is a continued and purposefully contrived act of genocide.

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