No.^TZr' ^^^' ^^^ WAHNENAUHI MANUSCRIPT — ^KILPATRICK 195 



Each Tribe was accused of encroaching on the hunting grounds of 

 the other. These disturbances were continued until Cherokee and 

 Creek were names considered antagonistic almost by nature. As late 

 as 1813 the two Nations were yet enemies. The Cherokees and 

 Choctaws assisted the United States, under command of General 

 Jackson, in the famous Creek War. 



The decisive battle was fought at the Horse shoe Bend in the Ten- 

 nessee River, it was the most terrible battle with the Indians, of which 

 we have an account, it is said, that the river for several miles ran red 

 with blood. But it was not until 1821 [^] that a Treaty of Peace was 

 finally made by the Cherokees and Creeks, it was modified in 1822, 

 '23, by which the question of "Boundary Line" was decided, and, 

 "forever hereafter acknowledged by both Nations to be permanent." 



Members of either Tribe living within the boundaries of the other, 

 were permitted to become Citizens of that Nation, if they chose to 

 do so. 



About other matters, the most Hberal provisions were made. 



The obligations of this Treaty have never been broken, and as a 

 consequence these two Nations are still at peace. 



During the time of the Colonization of North America, by the 

 Whites a number of English and Scotchmen came to the Cherokee 

 Nation on trading expeditions, and on becoming acquainted with the 

 people, soon found themselves so much pleased that they persuaded 

 the Cherokees to adopt them and give them wives. 



Most of these men became very much interested in the welfare of 

 the Indians, and tried to make their home-life more pleasant and 

 comfortable 



An EngHshman, named Edward Graves, ["] who had married 

 "Lah-to-tau, yie," p^ sent to England for a spinning wheel, cards and 

 cotton, and taught his wife to card and spin, he then made a loom, 

 and taught her how to weave, and make clothing for herself and 

 children. Lah-to-tau-yie learned the art very easily, for she was 

 interested in the work, and wished to please her husband by dressing 

 herself and children neatly. Edward Graves was a Christian and 

 told his wife and children about God and the Savior, Jesus Christ and 

 taught them to pray. 



Lah-to-tau-yie received this good news of salvation with a glad 

 heart, she said, she knew about the great Being who made every 

 thing, but she had never heard of the Savior, She told the Story to 

 all her neighbors and relatives, and many of them became Christians, 



50 This was the Treaty of Indian Spring, January 8, 1821. 



»i Mooney (1900, p. 214) states: "The anonymous writer [Wahnenauhl] may have confoimded this early 

 civUlzer with a young Englishman who was employed by Agent Hawkins In 1801 to make wheels and looms 

 for the Creeks (Hawkins, 1801, in American State Papers: Indian Affairs, I, p. 647)." 



» We cannot translate this name with certahity. It mightbeit;AJ(i')(iftado.-ft(t) ('Bearer-of-Seeds-on-Top'). 



