A Multi-Part Series of Articles
Part 1
No man, people, or country can justify their heinous acts of brutal murder only to be topped by their genocidal behavior of taking women and children as sex slaves, comfort women, girls, and boys, or just to breed the Native out of them and call themselves a civilized Christian people – Jimmie W. Kersh (2021)
Do Not Call Them Settlers, They Were Nothing More Than Illegal Immigrant Squatters
The lie of “settlers” must finally be put to rest. Settlers were nothing more than illegal immigrants temporarily squatting on lands in violation of the treaty rights of Native Americans. The Chickamauga had treaty rights from the 1730 Whitehall Treaty and the 1785 Treaty of Hopewell which gave them explicit rights to kill anyone who ventured upon their lands and refused to leave immediately.
These fine, upstanding Christian men and women were in open rebellion against their government, illegally trespassing in violation of Treaties, bearing false witness against the Indians upon whose lands they were trespassing, and killing the Indians to steal their lands. These illegal immigrants ventured beyond the designated treaty boundaries of the British colonies then had the audacity to complain to the military for protection when their fellow illegal immigrants were being killed because of their illegal activities.
Comfort Women and “Cherokee Princesses”
The Imperial Japanese Army learned the brutal, barbaric, genocidal concept of “Comfort Women” straight out of the playbook of the Colonial illegal immigrants and the military of the United States. Where did such philosophies and beliefs begin? It goes all the way back to the Catholic Church Dogma called “The Doctrine of Discovery” established in the mid to late 1400s and early 1500s by Papal Bulls. What is the Doctrine of Discovery? It gave kings the right, from the Pope and therefore from God, to claim absolute ownership of any newly discovered lands in which the inhabitants were non-white and non-Christian. It gave the kings the “right” to take the lands and enslave or kill any and all non-white, non-Christian residents because they are not human beings.
This is carried out when the governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount, gave the following orders to Brigadier General James Robertson, "You may give orders to all excursive parties, to consider all Creeks and Cherokees found North of the [treaty] line as enemies but women and children on all occasions are to be spared except that they may be made prisoners." Historically, England and the US misidentified the Chickamauga as cherokee because they could speak a Muskogean / Mobillian based southern dialect of the cherokee trade language. These orders extended to all US military, colonial / state militias, and the Native American allies of the US government in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
Today, if you have ever been told your great, great, grandmother was a “Cherokee princess” the term “Cherokee princess” was used in the Southern states as a euphemism for Chickamauga women who were captured and held as captive sex slaves or the other euphemism, “war bride.” I will be covering this in more detail in a later Part of this Series.
Here is the evidence:
Garrison, T. A., & O’Brien, G.; (2017): The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, Tim Alan Garrison & Greg O’Brien, University of Nebraska Press, Page 88 - 89
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The Treaty of Paris awarded a vast swath of eastern North America to the United States, but Native people-who had not been invited to Paris - mostly regarded it as a fraudulent compact. In his memoirs of early Georgia, former governor George Gilmer reflected, "Independence, which secured peace to the other States, gave no peace to Georgia .... The frontiers were too extensive to be defended by its scattered inhabitants." In truth, the same could be said of the entire region. In the absence of a strong state or, in the words of a contemporary, ''any competent authority from the United States," whites living in the borderlands took matters into their own hands, using squatting, intimidation, and violence to acquire Indian land. According to one Georgia woman, "The doctrine in her neighbourhood was, let us kill the Indians, bring on a war, and we shall get land." Thus began another decade of border wars, during which Indian captive-taking became a matter of course. In 1792 governor of the Southwest Territory William Blount advised Brigadier General James Robertson, who was then fighting Native militants, "You may give orders to all excursive parties, to consider all Creeks and Cherokees found North of the [treaty] line as enemies but women and children on all occasions are to be spared except that they may be made prisoners." Similarly, Winthrop Sargent, first territorial governor of Mississippi, threatened the Choctaws, ''If you wage war with the People of our Territories ... we will destroy your Fields, and little Stock, and make Captives your Wives and Children." Creek warrior John Galphin, no stranger to captive taking himself, explained that Creek men were afraid to leave their villages because "the Americans mite take the oportunity of Cuming into our towns& Carry of[f] our Wom[e]n & Children."8
Wherever warfare occurred, captivity followed. In 1792, when Cherokee sub agent John D. Chisholm tried to redeem recently captured Indian slaves held in Kentucky, captors refused and threatened to kill their prisoners if Chisholm tried to take them by force. The following year, in what one American critic described as a typical "sham campaign," a group of Georgia men went to a Creek town on the Chattahoochee where "they killd six warriors, took six prisoners, they being Women & Children, with a good deal of plunder, laid waste the town." During their attacks against the Chickamauga towns of Running Water and Nickajack in 1794, American militiamen killed fifty-five warriors and captured about twenty women and children. At the Tellico Blockhouse treaty in 1795, Chickamaugas clamored to redeem their kin. Militiamen had either taken these captives back to their homes or sold them to others, and the Chickamauga prisoners were now scattered throughout the South, living in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina. One chief, the Crier of Nickajack, brought a young African American girl to negotiations "expressly for the purpose of recovering in exchange his daughter now a Prisonner at Kentuckey." The Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse concluded the post-Revolutionary border wars, but in the next major conflict, the Red Stick War of 1813-1814, whites resumed taking Native captives. At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend alone, American forces and their Indian allies took an astonishing number of captives-353 women and children and 3 warriors. Although federal removal policy had expelled most Indians from the region by 1840, dozens remained enslaved under white masters. A Creek man, Ward Cochamy, at great personal risk, made it his mission to secure freedom for as many as possible. By 1848, he had liberated sixty-five Indian slaves, but reported that at least one hundred Creeks remained enslaved in Alabama alone. Although threatened by their "would-be masters," Cochamy vowed, "I shall get them yet."9
Here are the Notes:
Garrison, T. A., & O’Brien, G.; (2017): The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, Tim Alan Garrison & Greg O’Brien, University of Nebraska Press, Page 102 - 103
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8. George R. Gilmer, Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia, of the Cherokees, and the Author (1855; repr., Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970), 251; Esteban Miro to Don Antonio Valdes, June 15, 1788, Pontalba Papers, Temple Bodley Collection, Filson Historical Society; H. Thomas Foster II, ed., Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1810 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003), 102; William Blount to James Robertson, October 7, 1792, reel 801, James Robertson Papers, Tennessee State Library and Archives, emphasis mine; Winthrop Sargent to Timothy Pickering, February 10, 1800, in The Mississippi Territorial Archives, 1798-1803, ed. Dunbar Rowland (Nashville TN: Brandon Printing Company, 1905), 206; John Galphin to unknown [William Panton?], September 18, 1794, section 29, reel 43, document 59, East Florida Papers, P. K Yonge Library of Florida History, Department of Special and Area Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville.
9. First quotation from William Martin to Joseph Martin, October 27, 1793, 2xx40, Tennessee Papers, Draper Collection; second quotation from Tellico Blockhouse Treaty Negotiations, December 28, 1794 - January 3, 1795, reel 801, Robertson Papers; third quotation from Ward Co-cha-my to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, July, 16, 1848, in Grant Foreman, Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972), 19on35; Henry Knox to William Blount, A11gust 15, 1792, in The Territorial Papers of the United States: The Territory South of the River Ohio, 1790-1796, ed. Clarence Edwin Carter (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1936), 4:162; Knoxville Gazette (TN),September 26, 1794; John Haywood, Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from Its Earliest Settlement up to the Year I796 (1823; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1971), 98; Blount to Secretary of War, September 22, 1794, Territorial Papers, Territory South of the Ohio, 4:356; Journal of the proceedings of the commissioners appointed to treat with the southern Indians, Cuyler Collection; Blount to Robertson, March 8, 1794, reel 801,Robertson Papers; Blount to Robertson, April 15, 1794, Robertson Papers; Blount to Robertson, November 12, 1794, Robertson Papers; Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars (New York: Viking, 2001), 79. Other examples of Indian slaves include an Indian girl aged between ten and twelve supposedly held by William Whiteside in Kentucky (the same man who supported Nancy's case for freedom) and "two young Indian lads or rather yot1ng 1nen held as slaves by a Colonel Davies in the Neighborhood of Knoxville." Benjamin Logan to Governor Randolph, September 24, 1787, folder 515, Benjamin Logan Correspondence, Bullitt Family Papers - Oxmoor Collection, Filson Historical Society; Return J. Meigs to John Sevier, July 14, 1801, Sevier Papers.
The next parts in this series will deal more with the heretical Doctrine of Discovery that was used to steal, kill, enslave, and dehumanize our ancestors.