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l)y the iutiou of the Sliiiwiino, who hud tiikcn rcfugt; witli the Dc hi wares, 

 after havin«- been driven from their old home on Cumberhmd river 

 by the Cherokee. Feelino- secure in their new alliance, the Shawano 

 renewed their raids upon the Cherokee, who retaliated by jiiiisuing 

 them into the Delaware country, where they killed several Dehi wares 

 by mistake. This inflamed the latter people, already excited by the 

 sig'ht of Cherokee scalps and prisoners brought back through their 

 country by the Iroquois, and another war was the result, whit'h lasted 

 until the Cherokee, tired of lighting so many enemies, voluntarily made 

 overtures for peace in 1768. saluting the Delawan^sas Grandfather, an 

 honorary title accorded them by all the Algonquian tribes. The Dela- 

 wares then reprimanded the 8hawano, as the cause of the trou})le, and 

 advised them to keep quiet, which, as the_v were now left to tight their 

 battles alone, they were glad enough to do. At the same time the 

 Cherokee made peace with the Iroquois, and the long war with the 

 northern tribes came to an end. The friendly feeling thus established 

 was emphasized in 1779, when the Cherokee sent a message of con- 

 dolence upon the death of the Delaware chief White-eyes.' 



The Tuscarora, foi'merly the ruling tribe of eastern North Carolina, 

 are still remembered imder the name Ani'-Skala'li. and are thus men- 

 tioned in the Feather dance of the Cherokee, in which some of the 

 actors are supposed to be visiting strangers from other tribes. 



As the majority of the Tuscarora fled from Carolina to the Iroquois 

 country about 1713, in consequence of their disastrous war with the 

 whites, their memory has nearly faded from the recollection of the 

 .southern Indians. From the scanty light which history throws upon 

 their mutual relations, the two tribes seem to have been almost con- 

 stantly at war with each other. When at one time the Cherokee, hav- 

 ing already made peace with some other of their neighbors, were urged 

 by the whites to make peace also with the Tuscarora, they refused, on 

 the ground that, as they could not live without war. it was better to let 

 matters stand as they were than to make peace with the Tuscarora and 

 be obliged immediately to look about for new enemies with whom to 

 tight. For some years before the outbreak of the Tuscarora war in 

 1711 the Cherokee had ceased their inroads upon this tribe, and it was 

 therefore supposed that they were more busily engaged with some 

 other people west of the mountains, these being probablv the Shawano, 

 whom they drove out of Tennessee^ about this time.'' in the war of 

 1711-1713 the Chei-okee assisted the whites against the Tuscarora. In 

 1731 the Cherokee again threatened to make war upon the r(>nu)ant of 

 that tribe still residing in North Carolina and tiie colonial government 

 was compelled to interfere.' 



' Heckewclder, Indinn Nations, pp. 88-89, lR7f.. 



2 See Haywood, Nat. hikI Aborig. Hi.st.of Toniit's.see, pp. 'i-'0,'224,'2:i7, 1823. 



'North Curolina Colonial Ri-c(]rds, in, pp. l.W, 202, 345, 369, 393, 1880. 



