212 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE (eth.asn.I9 



Country," written in 1799 and publislied by the Historical Society of (ieorgia in 

 1848, remains a standard. His journal and other manuscripts are in possession of 

 the same society, while a manuscript Cherokee vocabulary is in possession of the 

 American Philosojihical Society in Philadelphia. -I nthoritieii: Hawkins's manuscripts, 

 with Georgia Historical Society; Indian Treaties, 1837; American State Papers: 

 Indian Affairs, i, 1832; ii, 1834; Gatschet, Creek Migration Legend; Appleton, C'yclo- 

 p;edia of American Biography. 



(27) Governor Willi.\m Blount (p. (iS): "William Blount, territorial governor of 

 Tennessee, was born in North Carolina in 1744 and died at Knoxville, Tennessee, 

 in 1800. He held several important offices in his native state, including two terms in 

 the assembly and two others as delegate to the old congress, in which latter capacity 

 he was one of the signers of the Federal constitution in 1787. On the organizatiim 

 of a territorial government for Tennessee in 1790, he was appointed territorial 

 governor and also sujoerintendent for the southern tribes, fixing his headtpiarters 

 at Knoxville. In 1791 he negotiated an important treaty with the Cherokee, and 

 had much to do with directing the operations against the Indians until the close 

 of the Indian war. He was president of the convention which organized the state of 

 Tennessee in 1796, and was elected to the national senate, but was expelled on the 

 charge of having entered into a treasonable conspiracy to assist the British in con- 

 quering Louisiana from Spain. A United States officer was sent to arrest him, but 

 returned without executing his mission on being warned by Blount's friends that 

 tliey would not allow him to be taken from the state. The impeachment jiroceedings 

 against him were afterward dismissed on technical grounds. In tiie meantime the 

 people of his own state had shown their confidence in him by electing him to the 

 state senate, (if which he was chosen president. He died at the early age nf fifty- 

 tliree, tlie most popular man in the state next to Sevier. His younger lirother, 

 AVillie Blount, who had been his secretary, was afterward governor of Tennessee, 

 1809-1815. 



(28) St Clair's defe.vt, 1791 (p. 72): Early in 1791 Major-General Arthur St 

 Clair, a veteran officer in two wars and governor of the Northwestern Territory, was 

 appointed to the chief command of the army operating against the Ohio tribes. ()n 

 November 4 of that year, while advancing upon the Miami villages with an army of 

 1,400 men, he was surprised liy an Indian force of about the same number under 

 little-turtle, the Miami chief, in what is now southwestern ilercer county, Ohio, 

 adji lining the Indiana line. Because of the cowardly conduct of the militia he was 

 totally defeated, with the loss of 632 officers and men killed and missing, anti 263 

 wounded, many of whom afterward died. The artillery was abandoned, not a horse 

 being left alive to draw it off, and so great was the panic that the men threw away 

 their arms and fled for miles, even after the pursuit had ceased. It was afterward 

 learned that the Indians lost 150 killed, besides many wounded. Two years later 

 (Teneral Wayne built Fort Recovery upon the same spot. The detachment sent to 

 do the work fouml within a space of 350 yards 500 skulls, while for several miles 

 along the line of pursuit the woods were strewn with skeletons and muskets. The 

 two cannon lost were found in the adjacent stream. Anthoriticn: St Clair's report 

 and related documents, 1791; American State Pajiers, Indian Affaii's, i, 1832; Drake, 

 Indians 570, 571, 1880; Appleton's C.vclopjedia of American Biography. 



(29) Cherokee cl.^ns, (p. 74): The Cherokee have seven clans, viz: Ani'-Wa'S-a, 

 Wolf; Ani'-Kawl', Deer; Ani'-Tsi'skwa, Bird; Ani'-WA'dl, Paint; Ani'-Saha'nl; 

 Ani'-Ga'tAge'wI; Ani'-Gilil'hl. The names of the last three can not be translated 

 with certainty. The Wolf clan is the largest and most important in the tribe. It. 

 is probable that, in accordance with the general system in other tribes, each clan 

 had formerly certain hereditary duties and privileges, but no trace of these now 

 remains. Children belong to the clan of the mother, and the law forbidding mar- 

 riage between persons of the same chin is still enforced among the conservative 



