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Descendants of Amatoya Moytoy

Generation No. 4

13. DRAGGING⁴ CANOE (ATTAKULLAKULLA³, NANCY² MOYTOY, AMATOYA¹) was born Abt. 1734 in The Overhill Settlements (now Monroe Co), TN, and died March 01, 1792 in Lookout Town, TN. He married LEAF. She was born Abt. 1734.

Notes for DRAGGING CANOE:
Source: John P Brown, Old Frontiers, (Reprint edition, 1971, by Arno Press, Inc), pg 5.)

Dragging Canoe aka Tsi’yi-gunsi’ni, Tsu-gun-sini, Chuconsene, Cheucunsene, Kunnesee, the Savage Napoleon
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Tsi’yi-gunsi’ni :
"He is dragging a canoe," from tsi’yu, canoe (cf. Tsi’yu) otter, and gunsi’ni, "he is dragging it." "Dragging Canoe," a prominent leader of the hostile Cherokee in the Revolution. The name appears in documents as Cheucunsene and Kunnesee. (Starr also lists him as Chuconsene)
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As a 12-14 year old boy he was told he couldn't go with the war party unless he could drag the fully loaded war log canoe on land into the water. His enthusiasm and endeavors earned him the name Tsi'ui-Gunsin'ni "Dragging Canoe". This was circa 1750 when his father Atakullakulla led war parties against the French & their Native allies, including Shawnee, in the Ohio Valley.
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- Chief Dragging Canoe, Chickamauga Tsalagi (Cherokee) 1775
"Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delawares? They have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former greatness. We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have passed the mountains, and have settled upon Tsalagi (Cherokee) land. They wish to have that usurpation sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Tsalagi (Cherokees). New cessions will be asked. Finally the whole country,
which the Tsalagi (Cherokees) and their fathers have so long occupied, will be demanded, and the remnant of the Ani Yvwiya, The Real People, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness. There they will be permitted to stay only a short while, until they again behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to point out any further retreat for the miserable Tsalagi (Cherokees), the extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed. Should we not therefore run all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than to submit to further loss of our country? Such treaties may be alright for men who are too old to hunt or fight. As for me, I have my young warriors about me. We will hold our land."

[The Indigenous Peoples: "Indians" in North America before the European Invasion through the 19th century.] Subsequently the Henderson Purchase was repudiated and negated by both British and American governments. Individuals were not allowed to make land purchases. That right was withheld by centralized European governments dealing with tribes as nation-to-nation.
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1792 February 17; Chickamauga Chief Glass and Dragging Canoe's brother, Turtle At Home, waylaid the John Collingsworth family near Nashville, killing the father, mother, and a daughter, and capturing an eight-year-old girl. Returning to Lookout Town (near Trenton, Georgia), they held a scalp dance, grinding one of the scalps in his teeth as he performed. Dragging Canoe, recently returned from
Mississippi after meeting with Choctaws, celebrated the occasion so strenuously that he died the following morning, age ±54.

John Watts of Will's Town (near Fort Payne, Alabama), became the new Chickamauaga leader of the united war effort. Cherokee resistance continued - led a big campaign against settlements in Nashville (Buchanan Station 1793) and in upper east Tennessee led the combined Cherokee-Creek attack at
Cavett's Station in 1793 in which there were no white survivors.
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Old Frontiers, pg 5
"Tsu-gun-sini, Dragging Canoe, son of Attakullakulla, was chief of Amo-yeli-egwa, Great Island, one of the smaller Cherokee towns." March 1775]
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Old Frontiers, pg 161
[1776, Dragging Canoe] "With his followers, he seceded from the Cherokee Nation and withdrew a hundred miles down the Tennessee River where he organized a new tribe. Those Cherokees who met in treaty with the Americans, he denounced as "rogues," or worse, as "Virginians." His own followers called themselves, proudly, "Ani-Yunwiya," the Real People.

More About DRAGGING CANOE:
Attended: March 1775, Henderson's Treaty, Sycamore Shoals
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Clan: Paint Clan

Children of DRAGGING CANOE and LEAF are:

30.	i.		NAKY⁵ CANOE, b. Abt. 1750.
	ii.		YOUNG DRAGGING CANOE, b. Abt. 1752.

14. TAH-CHEE⁴ (ATTAKULLAKULLA³, NANCY² MOYTOY, AMATOYA¹) was born Abt. 1736, and died Aft. 1828. He married AISLEY. She was born Abt. 1740.

Notes for TAH-CHEE:
Tatsi’ : "Dutch," also written Tahchee, a western Cherokee chief about 1830.
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Cherokees in Texas TSALAGIYI NVDAGI P O Box 492 Troup, Texas 75789 (903)842-3329

A large number of Cherokee refused to move to the Indian Territory and elected to join Duwali in Texas which was under Mexican jurisdiction. Among those moving to Texas was the noted chief Tahchee, or Dutch, who had been one of the earliest emmigrants to Arkansas. Tahchee continued to raid Osage settlements in the area of Cantonment Gibson from his home along the Red River. After several years in Texas, he moved to the Indian Territory where he continued raids against the Osage.
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While the Cherokees were in Mexico, The Imperial Mexican Government of Iturbide was overthrown. In June 1823, the new govemment informed the Cherokees to return to Texas and no more Cherokees would be allowed to migrate to Mexico. To mollify the Indians, Chief Diwali was made a Lieutenant
Colonel in the Mexican Army and appointed as Administrator for all of the Indians in East Texas. Peter Ellis Bean was appointed by the Mexican Government to be Indian Agent for East Texas. Upon Fields' return to Texas, he started making an alliance with all Indian tribes in East Texas, urging those in the United States to join him. This excited the Mexican Government on the intentions of the
Cherokees, and the government tried to counter the Cherokee influence with other Indians. A great Cherokee War Chief Tahchee,also known as Dutch, left the Cherokees in Arkansas and crossed the Red River into Texas in 1827. Tahchee and his warriors lived for fighting - anyone, but preferably the Osage Indians.

More About TAH-CHEE:
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Clan: Paint Clan (Mrs Oconostota)
Emigration: 1828, to Texas from Arkansas

Children of TAH-CHEE and AISLEY are:

31.	i.	OO-LOO-TSA⁵, b. Abt. 1760.
	ii.	GI-YO-STI, b. Abt. 1770.
	iii.	NETTLE CARRIER, b. Abt. 1772.

Notes for NETTLE CARRIER:
Tale'danigi'ski (Hemp-carrier, Nettle-carrier, Flaxtoter) prominent chief on Valley river, Cherokee Co, NC

Clan: Paint Clan (Aisley). .

15. OLLIE⁴ II (ATTAKULLAKULLA³, NANCY² MOYTOY, AMATOYA¹) was born Abt. 1756. She married BLACK FOX. He was born Abt. 1740.

Notes for BLACK FOX:
Black Fox aka Enola of Estanaula
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Black Fox delivered the eulogy for Dragging Canoe on June 26, 1792, at the council at Ustanali.

Child of OLLIE and BLACK FOX is:

32.

ANNIE⁵ CRYINGBEAR, b. Abt. 1805.

16. TURTLE-AT-HOME⁴ (ATTAKULLAKULLA³, NANCY² MOYTOY, AMATOYA¹) was born Abt. 1758. He married AHYAGUE. She was born Abt. 1760.

Notes for TURTLE-AT-HOME:
1818-19 Calhoun Treaty ceding land north of the Hiwassee River and North and West of theTennessee signed by Secretary of War John Calhoun and Cherokee in Washington and ratified by the U.S. Senate. New Eastern Cherokee immigration to Western Cherokee. Numbers now 6,000. The Gloss, John Walker, Path Killer, Going Snake and more signed. ± Treaty signer John Boggs may have
lived at Little Cedar Mountain. His wife was Turtle At Home's daughter.

More About TURTLE-AT-HOME:
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Clan: Paint Clan)

Child of TURTLE-AT-HOME and AHYAGUE is:

DAUGHER OF⁵ TURTLE-AT-HOME, b. Abt. 1780; m. JOHN BOGGS; b. Abt. 1770.

17. NANYE'HI⁴ (TAME³ DOE, NANCY² MOYTOY, AMATOYA¹) was born Abt. 1738 in Chota, City of Refuge, NC, and died Abt. 1824 in Cherokee Nation, Polk Co, TN. She married (1) TSU-LA KINGFISHER Abt. 1752 in NC. He was born Abt. 1720, and died Abt. 1755 in Canton Co, GA. She married (2) BRYAN WARD 1757. He was born Abt. 1720 in Antrim Co, Ireland, and died August 15, 1815 in Franklin Co, GA.

Notes for NANYE'HI:
Nancy Ward aka Nanye'hi -Cherokee form of Nancy
Tsistuna-gis-ke -birth name, "Wild Rose"
Ghigau -title of "Beloved Woman"
Chicouelha [?] Moravian Diary entry
War Woman of Chota

More About NANYE'HI:
Blood: 1/4 Cherokee, 1/4 Algonquin, 1/2 Delaware?
Clan: Wolf Clan (Quatsy)

Notes for TSU-LA KINGFISHER:
Blood: Full Blood Cherokee
Clan: Deer Clan

Children of NANYE'HI and TSU-LA KINGFISHER are:

33.	i.		CATHERINE⁵ KINGFISHER, b. Abt. 1752; d. Abt. 1817, Cherokee Nation, East TN.
34.	ii.		FIVEKILLER KINGFISHER, b. June 1755, Cherokee Nation, East TN.

Child of NANYE'HI and BRYAN WARD is:

35.

iii.

ELIZABETH BETSY⁵ WARD, b. September 18, 1757, Cherokee Nation, East TN; d. TN.

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