146 MYTHS OF THE CHKROKEE [eth.ann.19 



Texas land, which Bowl had carrietl ai)out with him .since the treaty 

 with Ilou.stoii and which he had upon his person when shot. It is 

 still kept in the Nation.' Others, with the Kickapoo, Delawares, 

 and (Jaddo, .scattered in small ])ands alont;- the we.stern Texas frontier, 

 where they were occasionally heard from afterward. On Chri-stmas 

 day of the same year a fight occurred on Cherokee creek, San Saba 

 county, in which .several Indians W(n-t> killed and a number of women 

 and children captured, including- the wife and family of the dead chief 

 Bowl." Those of the Cherokee who did not retui'nto Indian territory 

 g'radually drifted down into Mexico, where .some hundreds of them 

 are now permanently and prosperously domiciled far south in the 

 neighborhood of Guadalajara and Lake Chapala. communication being- 

 still kept up through occasional visits from their kinsmen in the terri- 

 tory.' 



THE CHEROKEE NATIOX IX THE WEST — l.S-iO-l!t( K) 



With the tinal removal of the Cherokee from their native country 

 and their reunion and reorganization under new conditions in Indian 

 Territory in 184<> their aboriginal period properly comes to a close 

 and the rest may be dismissed in a few paragraphs as of concern rather 

 to the local historian than to the ethnologist. Having traced for three 

 full centuries their gradual evolution from a savage trilje to a civilized 

 Christian nation, with a national constitution and national press printed 

 in their own national alphabet, we can afford to leave the rest to 

 others, the principal materials ])eing readily accessible in the Cherokee 

 national archives at Tahlecjuah, in the tiles of the Chcrohfe Admcate 

 and other newspapers published in the Nation, and in the annual 

 reports and other documents of the Indian ofiice. 



For many years the hunter and warrior had been giving place to the 

 farmer and mechanic, and the forced expatriation made the chang-e 

 complete and final. Torn from their native streams and mountains, 

 their council tires extinguished and their townhouses burned behind 

 them, and transported bodily to a far distant country where every- 

 thing Avas new and strange, they were obliged pi>rforce to forego the 

 old life and adjust themselves to changed surroundings. The ballplay 

 was neglected and the green-c'orn dance pro.scribed, while the heroic 

 tradition of former days became a fading memory or a tale to amuse a 

 child. Instead of ceremonials and peace councils we hear now of rail- 

 I'oad deals and contracts with cattle syndicates, and instead of the old 

 warrior chiefs who had made the Cherokee name a terror — Oconostota, 

 Hanging-maw, Doublehead, and Pathkiller — we tind the destinies of the 



^ Author's personal information from .T. D. WafEord ami otlier old western Cherokee, and recent 

 Cherokee delegates; by some this is snid to hjive been a Mexiean patent, lint it is probably the one 

 given by Texas. See ante, p. 143. 



-Thrall, Texas, p. 120, ].S7i;. 



3 Author's personal information fnmi Mexican and Cherokee sources. 



