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Subject: Re: [IT ROOTS] Ca. 1800 Cherokee Help
Shan,
Nettle Carrier was "A" chief-- of his own small (mostly family) group. But he
was
not
a very important chief in the nation, because he did not live with the tribe.
Primarily, he was a Medicine Man, and that's why he and his family remained
unmolested living that far away from the protection of the Cherokee domain. I have
never heard of any other full-blood Cherokees who did live away from the tribe,
except for him. The Shawnees were bitter enemies of the Cherokee and roamed
not far
from that area. However, as Overton County became overrun by the Rev. War
veterans
with bounty grants from NC, he and his family returned to the Cherokee Nation
and are
shown on the records of the Cherokees by 1835.
The rest of the story is basically true, so don't be embarrassed by stating it as
such. Polygamy WAS practiced in the Cherokee Tribe until about 1820- and even
a few
brought multiple wives when they removed here to Indian Indian Territory.
A trader was more acceptable if he took an Indian wife in most of the tribes at
that time in history. In one example- Trader John Benge (white) had a white wife in
Virginia - a member of the prominent Lewis family. When the family found out that he
had taken an Indian wife in the Cherokee Nation and had a child by her, they went
through the state to obtain a divorce for their sister (well-documented case). The
Indian son, known as "The Benge" never forgave them and wages an enthusiastic
war
against the colonists in Virginia during the Rev War- and even afterward.
As for "the man putting aside a woman and taking another"-- it was usually the
other way around! When a couple got married, the husband moved to HER village. The
house belonged to her- and all that he owned was his hunting gear and clothes. If
they separated, he left and went back to his own village. The reason that the husband
had little to do with raising the children was because the Indians had a much more
practical attitude about the Indian children- "they KNEW who the mother was"
<g>.
For reading material I would suggest "Old Frontiers" by Brown; "Myths and
Sacred
Formulas of the Cherokees" by Mooney; "Cherokees and Missionaries" by Yale;
"The
Colonial Records of South Carolina- Documents Relating to Indian Affairs" (3 vols)
by
McDowell; "History of the Indians" by Adair; and "Cherokee Ghost
Dance" by
McLoughlin.
Jerri Chasteen
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