White Owl was related to the family from which many Cherokee leaders were drawn and was thus destined for greatness if he showed the mettle to grasp the opportunity which circumstances presented to him. He was robbed and harassed by angry frontiersmen on his journey home. Blackfox is the witness to many of the documents for the Seabolt family. Attakullakulla is my 8th great-grandfather. Bartram describes him as "A man of remarkably small stature, slender and of a delicate frame, the only instance I saw in the Nation; but he is a man of superior abilities. Attakullakulla's son Dragging Canoe led a resistance to the United States in the 1780s. Onacona "White Owl" Attakullkulla or Attacullaculla Wolf Clan Peace Chief AKA: "Leaning Wood" * Birth: 1695 in Sevier's Island, Tennessee * Death: 1797 in Nacheztown, North Carolina (now Tennessee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Attakullakulla, Supreme Chief of the Cherokee 1760 --1775. Ata'-gul kalu' Chief 1/2 Algonquin, 1/2 Cherokee Clan: Wolf Clan (Chief Ata'gulkalu' Onacona Little Carpenter "Cherokee") Born in 1708 - Seveiers Island, Tennessee Deceased in 1777 - Nachestown, North Carolina,aged 69 years old Parents White Owl Raven ca 1680- Nancy Moytoy, Full Blood Cherokee of the Holy Clan Spouses and children Chief Attakullakullafamily tree Parents Amadohiyi Pidgeon Moytoy Of Tellico 1687- 1761 Swan Wapehti Hop Turkey Cornstalk 1686- 1754 Wrong Chief Attakullakulla? View Site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacullaculla, from Don Chesnut's web page; www.users.mis.net/~chesnut/pages/cherokee.htm, a noted Cherokee chief, recognized by the British government as the head chief or "emperor" of the Nation, about 1760 and later, and commonly known to the whites as the Little Carpenter (Little Cornplanter, by mistake, in Haywood). Major settlement began after as the northern half of the British colony of Carolina attracted frontiersmen from Pennsylvania and Virginia, while the southern parts were populated by wealthy English people who set up large plantations dependent . FATHER:White Owl Raven, was an Algonquin chief. Henderson's purchase was in violation of North Carolina and Virginia law, as well as the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited private purchase of American Indian land. D: 1695 3 Akulusska Ben Hokolesqua: B: 1662. Amatoya was taught by his father to witch for water with a willow stick. He was probably born between 1700 and 1710 on the Big Island of the French Broad River (later known as Sevier's Island) and was a member of the Wolf (Ani-wa-ya) Clan. [19], In the Treaty of Broad River (1756), Attakullakulla agreed to a Cherokee land cession to the English, in exchange for their promise to build forts in Cherokee territory to protect their women and children while the men were fighting with the British in the French and Indian War. During times of Peace the Chiefs wore white. He was a member of the Cherokee delegation that traveled to England in 1730. One of three men was Oukanaekah, who was later given the name Attakullakulla, or Little Carpenter, which means "one who fits things together nicely." This describes an effective style of leadership, and not necessarily his occupation. The Cherokee recalled Attakullakulla to the council to negotiate peace with the British. Worse, the cession was denounced during the negotiations by Dragging Canoe, leader of the militant Cherokee faction and the son of Attakullaculla, one of the chiefs who signed the treaty with Henderson. Later, he resided at Tellico, and Chota, E. Indian Nation, TN. Research genealogy for Chief Attakullakulla of Seviers Island, Tennessee, United States, as well as other members of the Attakullakulla family, on Ancestry. Children of ATTAKULLAKULLA CARPENTER and WOMAN CLAN are: 10. i. TSI-YU-GANSI-NI "DRAGGING CANOE"3 MOYTOY, b. Abt. He was the youngest of the seven who went. In 1736, he rejected the advances of the French, who sent emissaries to the Overhill Cherokees. Attakullakulla had a daughter named Rebecca "Nikiti" Carpenter with his first wife Nionnee Ollie and another known as "Weena" with one of the survivors of the Loudon battle.[26][27][28]. More About C HIEF O CONOSTOTA: Suggested Reading(s): David Cockran, The Cherokee Frontier: Conflict and Survival, 1740-1762 (1962); James C. Kelly, "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Attakullakulla," Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (1): 2-34. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=A045. He passed away on May 1777 in Nachestown, North Carolina Now, Tennessee, United States. In the 1750s and 1760s Attakullakulla dominated Cherokee diplomacy. Oconostota was ever afterward the faithful ally of the English. A child of White Owl 1 Raven and Nancy Li Wildrose 1 Moytoy Visualize another relationship By this time, whites knew Attakullakulla as Little Carpenter. 4. D: 1675 + Pride Chalakahatha : B: ABT 1615. Select Page. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Attakulla also influenced the selection of John Stuart as Superintendent of Southern Indian Affairs. * Kelly, James C. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Attakullakulla." Attakullakulla worked to prevent an escalation of violence. In addition, all of the men who went to England in 1730, except Attakullakulla, were dead by 1756 and Willenawah was most certainly alive then. He was captured as an infant during a raid in which his parents were killed, and brought back to Tennessee to be adopted by a Cherokee family, where he was raised as Cherokee. Has Children Olli - 2 - of the Paint Clan 4. Attakullakulla (A-da-gul-ka-lu) CHIPPEWA aka Little Carpenter White Owl - 1/4th Shawnee-Cherokee Metis - He married NayO nay (is how we said it) Ollie Nionee OCONASTOTA of the Paint Clan in 1730, Overhills, Great Tellico, Tennessee b. Cherokee warrior Main article: AngloCherokee War In the 1750s, Attakullakulla worked to provide a steady supply of trade goods for his people. Cherokee Militrgeschichte. Chief was born in 1734, in Overhill Settlements, Monroe, Tennessee, US(Aka Natchey Town Indian Territory). It is stated that he was made second in authority under Oconostota in 1738. Many Cherokees blamed Attakullakulla for the death of the hostages. Journal of Cherokee Studies 3:1 (Winter 1978), 2-34. In order to save Stuart, Attakullakulla purchased him from the Cherokee who had taken him. [1] He married Nionne Ollie, who was the daughter of his cousin Oconostota The marriage was permissible because they were of different clans; he was Wolf Clan and she was Paint Clan. Attakullakulla signed peace terms in Charles Town on December 18, 1761. The Cherokee killed many of the garrison as they retreated to the East. In June 1761 a British expedition dispatched by General Jeffery Amherst and commanded by Colonel James Grant destroyed several Cherokee Lower and Middle towns in the Carolinas. (could have been as late as 1712), Big Island of the French Broad River, later called Sevier's Island, TN. He will be a descendent to many. The Cherokee Indians delighted the English residents and had their own eyes broadly opened to the attributes and strengths of white civilization. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=158643364&pi Geni requires JavaScript! He was robbed and harassed by angry frontiersmen on his journey home. From about 1743 to 1748 Attakullakulla resided as captive among the Ottawas of eastern Canada, where he was afforded considerable freedom and became well regarded among the French. This ancestry also makes the Cherokee Moytoys cousins to the Carpenter Earl of Tyrconnell, and thus related to the current British royal family. Attakullakulla, or the Little Carpenter, was one of the most important Cherokee chiefs of the 18th century. Has Children Tai-ya-gansi-ni (he is) Dragging (the) Canoe b: 1730 9. When American Revolutionary forces under the command of William Christian occupied the Overhill villages in 1776, Attakullakulla arranged for their withdrawal and played a leading role in the 1777 peace negotiated at Long Island on the Holston. Attakullakulla journeyed to Pennsylvania, to Williamsburg, and then to Charles Town, securing the promise of British trade goods as compensation for participation in fighting. [12] He was succeeded as First Beloved Man by Oconostota. ", {{ asCtrl.bannerRights.content|translate }}, The Geneanet family trees are powered by Geneweb 7.0. His name is also spelled Attakullakulla. He ruled the town of Chota sometime between the beginning of the eighteenth century and 1730. Attakullakulla was a powerful eighteenth-century Overhill Cherokee leader who played a critical and decisive role in shaping diplomatic, trade, and military relationships with the British Colonial governments of South Carolina and Virginia for over fifty years. Attakullakulla is believed to have died in 1777. the receipt whereof the said Oconistoto and his whole nation do for themselves and the whole tribe of people, have granted, bargained, and sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, and confirmed, and by presents do grant, bargain, and sell, alien, enfeoff, release, and confirm to the said Richard Henderson, Thomas Hart, Nathaniel Hart, John Williams, John Lutterell, William Johnston, James Hogg, David Hart, and Leonard Hendly Bullock, their heirs and assigns forever, all the tract, territory, or parcel of land beginning on the Holston River where the courses of Powels Mountain strikes the same, thence up the said river as it meanders to where the Virginia line crosses the same, thence along the line run by Donelson & Co. to a point six English miles eastward of the Long Islands in said Holston River; thence a direct course toward the mouth of the Great Canaway until it reaches the top of Powels Mountain, thence westward along the said ridge to the beginning [Path Deed*], (End of Page 147). Upon his return, he became one of the Cherokees' leading diplomats and an adviser to the Beloved Man of Chota. In late 1759, some Cherokee leaders went to Charleston to try to negotiate with South Carolina authorities for peace. The Name Sawney or Shawnee or Sawnee, Ancester blood line name in honor of Little Carpenter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attakullakulla ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Attakullaculla "Leaning Wood" Little Carpenter Oukanaekah "the White Owl" The Wise Councillor ******************************************* Ata -gul kalu : a noted Cherokee chief, recognized by the British government as the head chief or "emperor" of the Nation, about 1760 and later, and commonly known to the whites as the Little Carpenter (Little Cornplanter, by mistake, in Haywood). Robert Addington (in A History of Scott County, Virginia, 1932) reports that Daniel Boone negotiated the treaty with the Cherokee on Henderson's behalf, and that more than 1200 Indians attended the meeting, and that the Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee, excepting Dragging Canoe, accepted and signed the treaty. The Cherokees gave up two individuals and negotiated the release of a few hostages including Oconostota, who soon after lured Lt. Richard Coytmore out of the fort, waving a bridle over his head, and incited Cherokee warriors hiding in the woods to fire upon and kill Coytmore; white soldiers inside the fort then proceeded to murder all the Cherokees inside, and hostilities continued between the Cherokees and Anglo-Americans. I think this is because some people are not aware that there were two Chief Moytoy's. . The land thus delineated, 20 million acres (81,000 km), encompassed an area half the size of present-day Kentucky.