Timeline story

Native · 1776 – 1794

Chickamauga Cherokee hold the southern flank

After the 1775 Treaty of Sycamore Shoals sold Cherokee claims to Kentucky hunting ground, Dragging Canoe (Tsiyu Gansini) broke with the accommodationist chiefs, warning of a “dark and bloody ground.” From new towns on Chickamauga Creek (and later the Five Lower Towns), his Chickamauga faction — Cherokees plus allied Creek, Shawnee, and others — raided Cumberland and Kentucky settlements through the Revolution and into the 1790s.