EDITORIAL: The reason Little Turkey had no authority over the Young Chickamauga Warriors is that the Chickamauga warriors were not cherokee and did not care what Little Turkey said. The lands on the Cumberland was the traditional hunting grounds of the Mound Building Culture Tribes from time in memorial, which is inclusive of the Chickamauga. It never included the cherokee because the cherokee are not of the Mound Building Culture and never hunted the lands of the Cumberland until they entered the Cumberland valley in the late 1770s and early 1780s. The reason the cherokee were so eager to give away the land is because it was not theirs, they had no ancestral, religious, or hunting ties to the lands. This sounds just like how the cherokees acted historically as well as today, taking what is not theirs and living on lands that are not theirs.
Complaints & Threats Of The Cherokee Nation
Blount disputes the Cherokee claims to the land of the Cumberland settlements upon which they are threatening war against the inhabitants. He charges the Cherokee young warriors with stirring up the antagonism against the settlers and defends his summons of the militia to protect the settlers against Indian depredations.
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notable phrase - There is ever among [the Cherokees] young warriors wishing to rise into consequence and nothing so like to effect it as complaining against Chiefs for having sold their hunting grounds...I declare that I have never heard or been informed of any complaints from the Cherokee nation or any part or member thereof against the Cumberland settlers except the speech of the Little Turkey may be so understood.
notable phrase - There is ever among [the Cherokees] young warriors wishing to rise into consequence and nothing so like to effect it as complaining against Chiefs for having sold their hunting grounds...I declare that I have never heard or been informed of any complaints from the Cherokee nation or any part or member thereof against the Cumberland settlers except the speech of the Little Turkey may be so understood.
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