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AN UNEASY PEACE

26" x 30"edition of one hundred

The treaty of Hopewell, which was signed on Nov. 28, 1785, was the first treaty between the Americans and the Cherokee. The treaty was signed by Old Corn Tassle and boycotted by Dragging Canoe, this is depicted by the opposing faces wearing the markings of the Peregrine Falcon, the bird of war. Dragging Canoe and the Chickamaugas continued to raid and terrorize the Americans with arms supplied by the Spanish Traders in Florida.

After the death of Dragging Canoe in 1792 leadership fell to Doublehead who was even more aggressive than Dragging Canoe had been. Under Doublehead, Chief Bowl ambushed an American party on the Tennessee River near muscle Shoals in 1794, ostracized by the Cherokee and hated by the Americans, he and his followers crossed the Mississippi and settled along the St. Francis River in what is now Arkansas.

The Bowl and the Chickamaugas followed Sam Houston to Texas hoping for an ally. After Texas gained its independence the Texas legislature voted to expel all Indians from Texas. The two Chickamauga villages were raided, and The Bowl was killed. The remnants of the Chickamauga rejoined the Cherokee who were rebuilding the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory after the forced removal known now as the Trail of Tears, completing the circle.

Treaty with the Cherokee, 1785 close-up

An Uneasy Peace $385 + $35 shipping

Cherokee Dragon: A Novel (Robert J. Conley's Real People Series)

Cherokee Dragon
Three-time Spur Award-winning Cherokee storyteller Conley (The Peace Chief) dramatizes the life and exploits of Tsiyu Gansini, the last of the great Cherokee war chiefs, in this stark historical novel. Conley spans more than 100 years in describing his protagonist's life and legacy, beginning with the birth of Gansini, better known as Dragging Canoe, in 1737 and ending when his people endured the infamous Trail of Tears in 1838, nearly five decades after his death. Surviving smallpox as an infant and named, at age 11, when he tries to drag a war canoe into the river to join his father's war party, Dragging Canoe grows to manhood amid the turmoil of the American Revolution as the English, French and American colonists take every opportunity to exploit the Cherokee by making and breaking duplicitous treaties. From his teen years on, Dragging Canoe spends his life fighting to stop the British and Americans from violently reneging on their solemn pledges not to steal his ancestors' lands. After the 1730 Articles of Agreement, the narrative chronicles treaty after treaty, infamy upon infamy and battle after battle, through the heartbreaking dissolution of the proud Cherokee nation. Central to the story is Dragging Canoe's disagreement with his famous cousin, Nancy Ward, whose life Conley chronicled in War Woman.