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Dragging Canoe

Cherokee war chief and leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee · Lived 1730 to 1792 · aged 62

Dragging Canoe was a Cherokee red chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors who resisted colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South.

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During the American Revolution and afterward, Dragging Canoe's forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Native Americans from other tribes, along with British Loyalists, and agents of France and Spain. The Cherokee American Wars lasted more than a decade after the end of the American Revolutionary War.

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Lived 1730 to 1792 · aged 62