Dragging Canoe

Tsiyu Gansini, "He is dragging his canoe", known to whites as Dragging Canoe, (c. 1738 – March 1, 1792) is a Cherokee war chief who leads a band of Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers.

Beginning during the American Revolution, his forces are sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes/nations, along with British Loyalists, French and Spanish agents.

The series of conflicts, lasting for a decade after the American Revolutionary War, are known as Chickamauga Wars.

Dragging Canoe becomes the preeminent war leader among the Indians of the Southeast of his time.

He serves as principal chief of the Lower Cherokee from 1777 until his death in 1792, when he is succeeded by his pick, John Watts.

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