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Tahchee — Cherokee word for Dutch. Born at Turkeytown, on the 

 Coosa Eiver, now Alabama, about 1790. 



He was five feet eleven inches in height, of admirable proportions, 

 flexible and graceful in his movements, and possessed great muscular 

 power and activity, while his countenance expressed a coolness, cour- 

 age, and decision which accord well with his distinguished reputation 

 as a warrior. 



The treaty made by the United States with the Cherokees in the year 

 1828 gave great dissatisfaction to many of that tribe, and was so offen- 

 sive to Dutch that he determined to abandon the country. He removed 

 to Eed Eiver, and thence, after three years, to Bowler settlement, in 

 Texas. Here he became so violent a partisan in the Indian wars that 

 Colonel Arbuckle, the commander of the American forces, offered a re- 

 ward of $500 for his capture. 



Intelligence of this was carried to Dutch, who received it with con- 

 tempt. To show his daring, he set out toward the fort, reaching a 

 trading-house on the river Neosho, wherein were some friendly Osage 

 Indians. Just alongside of the fort he attacked the Indians, and killed 

 and scalped one. With his rifle in one hand and the scalp in the other, 

 he escaped by jumping down a precipice, amidst a shower of balls. He 

 escaped to Eed Eiver. 



Shortly after this the offer of reward for him was withdrawn by Col- 

 onel Arbuckle, and Dutch became a friend of the whites. He was a 

 great hunter and guide, and was employed by the United States author- 

 ities in this capacity for years. 



He built a home on the Canadian Eiver, where he had large herds 

 of cattle and horses. 



He was a man of sound character, and one to be relied upon. As a 

 warrior none stood higher amongst the Indians. He was engaged in 

 more than thirty battles with the Osage and other Indians, and killed 

 with his own hands twenty-six of his adversaries. He died about 1843. 



285. Col-lee (Jol-lee?), chief of a band of the Cherokees. (Since dead.) Painted 



in 1836. 



(Plate No. 217, page 119, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Six or seven thousand of the tribe (Cherokees) have several years since removed to 

 the Arkansas, under the guidance and control of an aged and dignified chief by the 

 name of Jol-lee. 



This man, like most of the chiefs, as well as a very great proportion of the Chero- 

 kee population, has a mixture of white and red blood in his veins, of which, in this 

 instance, the first seems decidedly to predominate. — G. C. 



286. Teh-ke-neh-kee, The Black Coat, a chief also of considerable standing. 



Painted in 1836. (No plate.) 

 Another chief, and second to this, amongst this portion of the Cherokees, by the 

 name of Teh-ke-neh-kee (The Black Coat), I have also painted and placed in my col- 

 lection. — G. C. 



