Little Dragging Canoe
"Young Dragging Canoe"
Cherokee
Born about in Cherokee Nation (East)
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Dragging Canoe Cherokee
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died about
at about age 76
in Cherokee Nation (East) [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Chief Dragging Canoe had one known child, a son known as Little or Young Dragging Canoe. Very little is known about this son; despite what is linked to on this profile, there is no documentation of any marriage or children.[1]
He is mentioned in a 1792 account by a man named Richard Finnelson included in a report to Secretary of War Blount, "Panton … expected that John Watts, the Young Dragging Canoe and the Little Turkey were then at his house, in Pensacola... "[2]
Although he joined John Watts in his attacks on American settlers after their return from Pensacola, he apparently became reconciled to the Americans. He is believed to be one of the men named "Dragging Canoe" who fought in a Cherokee unit at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812.[3]
- The son's birth year has been estimated from his father's age.
Disputed Relations
A previous version of this profile claimed, without adequate sources, that his spouse was Rutha Rowland and that they had a child Martha Tilde Snow Allen. They've been detached. If you have a strong source for these claims, please provide it. (The sources previously listed on this profile were insufficient.) Thank
Another version of this profile claimed, without sources, a spouse Pin Yin Consene, and children: Sarah Consene and John Consene Tucker. They have been detached.
Sources
- ↑ A scholarly biography of Dragging Canoe can be found in The Journal of Cherokee Studies, Winter 1977, pp 176-189.
- ↑ American State Papers, 2nd Congress, 2nd Session. Indian Affairs, Vol. 1, p. 289. image here
- ↑ muster roll, Gideon Morgan's Cherokee Regiment image here
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Consene-3
edited by Maurice Allison Jr
Almost all of the Native American nations on the East Coast were wiped out by disease and warfare before the middle of the 18th century. The Cherokee lived across the Appalachian Mountains and were not reached by Europeans until the 1670's but even so 30-50% of the Cherokee were killed by smallpox in the early 1700's. White traders began fathering Cherokee children in the 1720's. We know more about the genealogy of mixed families because white people kept written records and followed patrilineal descent, which was meaningless to the Cherokee. White traders needed Cherokee wives to have any status with the tribe - without a wife they were a non-person - but the relationships benefitted both parties giving the wife and her family better access to trade goods. These intermarriages involved a small proportion of the tribe - in 1835 75% of Cherokee were full-blood, and there were only 200 intermarried whites.
Yates' claims are Eurocentric and colonizer ideas that somehow Indian tribes benefitted from the arrival of Europeans. None of his claims are accepted by any recognized tribe.
edited by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
Who determined that 75% of the Cherokee were full blood in 1835? Just curious given the circumstances.
Do you have any knowledge of the Rickahocken (sp)? Recently saw something about them.