Tahlonteeskee (Creek chief)
Tahlonteeskee (or "'Talotisky of the Broken Arrow"') was the (possibly Cherokee-given) name of a Creek chieftain killed fighting alongside his allies, the Lower Cherokee during a failed attack against Buchannan's Station, a frontier fort near Nashville, Tennessee (in the Southwest Territory), on September 30, 1792. Also killed in this attack was Pumpkin Boy (brother of Doublehead) and a Shawnee warrior called Siksika (an older brother of Tecumseh). Wounded in the skirmish was John Watts (also known as 'Young Tassel'), a future leader of the Cherokee people.
See also
- Tahlonteeskee (Cherokee chief) (also sometimes written as Talotisky), nephew of John Watts
Sources
- American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol.1, 1789-1813; Congress of the United States; Washington, DC; 1831-1861 archives.
- McLoughlin, William G.; Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic; [sic] Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1992.
- Mooney, James; Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee; Nashville; Charles and Randy Elder-Booksellers; 1982.
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