Dragging Canoe

Dragging Canoe
ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ
Pronunciation	Tsiyu Gansini
Born	1738 The over-mountain region
Died	February 29, 1792(1792-02-29) (aged 53–54) Running Water Town
Nationality	Cherokee
Era	Revolutionary War period in America
Known for	War chief of the Chickamauga
Successor	John Watts
Movement	Chickamauga tribe of the Cherokee
Relatives	son of Attakullakulla
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Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini,^[a] c. 1738 – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors who resisted colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South. During the American Revolution and afterward, Dragging Canoe's forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes, along with British Loyalists, and agents of France and Spain. The Cherokee American Wars lasted more than a decade after the end of the American Revolutionary War.

During that time, Dragging Canoe became the preeminent war leader among the Indians of the southeast. He served as war chief, or skiagusta, of the group known as the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee"), from 1777 until his death in 1792.
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