ISSN:
0095-182X
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
American Indian quarterly : journal of American Indian studies
Publ. der Quelle:
Berkeley, Calif : University of California
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016), p. 38
DDC:
050
Abstract:
The decades after the American Revolution saw strenuous efforts to both foment and terminate bloodshed between Indians and whites. The key issue was, of course, the disposition of Indian lands. Common white frontiersmen and Indian warriors were quick to kill their opposites in an attempt to hold or seize territory, which often led to cyclical, retaliatory strikes, understood as blood feuds. Native and white chiefs, however, tended to seek more peaceful solutions to cross-cultural murders and warfare. They did so not from high-mindedness but from an understanding that only peaceful councils would bring the land purchases white leaders desperately sought and the trade goods payments that Indian leaders desperately needed. Meanwhile, Thomas Coulter of Madison had written to Tennessee's governor, Willie Blount, with his own account of the affair. Coulter's version made little effort to be diplomatic or objective. He further opined that the Cherokee Indian settlements were "within the chartered lands" of Franklin County.
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1752110018
