The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12
CHEROKEE INDIANS
rULL-BLooDs ARE NOW IN
 LARGE MINORITY.
Bright Men are Among Them-Fam- lilies of. Boudinot, Ross, Adair,
 Payne and Foreman Famous
 In the Annals of the Once {. Powerful People.
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 As tribe of Indians. the Chsrokees are Thsir constant amaigamation with whites for more than & century has he the result of obliterating the ull-bloods, who are now in the great minority. and very many of the half-breeds, black. haired, black-eyed and dark in color, are mistaken for full-bloods
 The Cberokees of the Indian Territory have many bright and intelligent men among them. who have hgured es states men, lawyers and students, suoh as the Boudinots, William Shorey Coody, WI Ham Penn Adair, James Madison Payns, According to the traditions of the oli Cheroxees who coull not speak English. the Cherokses came from the East, or, as they expressed 1t, from towards the rising sun.
 Came From the East.
 Tn the year lsss there lived near New Ech ota, the then capital of the Chero- kee nation, & Cherokee 90 years old. MT. Worcester, d missionary, and Elias Bou- dinot. father of the Cherokee Boudinots. made a visit to the old man to learn some of the traditions of the Cherokees The old man told them that from his earliest recollection the Cherokees had been coming from the rising sun; that The first white people they ever saw were in Virginia.
 The names of the streams in Tennes- see. North and South Carolina, Georgia and a part of Alabama were originally Cherokee, but the pronunciation at this day is so corrupted 1t is hard to reconcile them with the Cherokee. Huwassee, tributary of the Tenne5- sec in Cherokee, is called Aguwasi. Tel lco, a town there should be called Tahle- quah. The Unicoy Mountains in North / Carolina should be called Unake Noun taias. Unake is a Cherokee word mean ing White. The fact that most Of the streams in the mountains in the above named States have Cherokee names proves that they owned a very large ter
 warlike People.
 They were a warlike people and car ried on a predatory war for many years with the Mohawks. Senecas. Delawares and other Northern tribes. Tn tneir do. 10. on foot. and silently, so as to faI upo, their enemies unawares. and slay all wnt fell into their hands, sparing neither ag' They would then flee. and. perhaps, bt pursued to their homes, or the Northern Indians would visit them, who at tha time lived in villages, and netaliate nS killing all who fell into tneir hanos.
 Among the Mohawks. fire, stone ane pipe are identical with the names ol these things in Cherokee.
 The Mohawks, Oneidas and Onandago' wares in Pennsylvania and were all no mads The first white men they knew were Virginians. It Is not an improo able conjecture that the Cherokees were { the powerful tribe governed by Powhat tan in Virginia. A, During the Revolutionary War th' CYerokee3 were the allies of Great Brit ain. and fought nobly. The agent for tht Cherokees under George I'll. was by nam, McDonaldN He was a Scotchman, ane inc grandfather of the celebrated Jonr Ross. who. was the chief o1 the Cnero kees for over thirty years.
 During Wasmngton's administration Il was deemed expedient to secure tht friendship of the Cherokeee. and dete gat,on of chiefs were invited to visi Philadelphia, the seat of Government .t' the time. at which Washington presided and as 6 mark of distinction the Cherokee del j. gates were seated next to the President, on his right at the table.
 An old Cherokee named George Miller, who was then a boy, was with the dele gation. It would animate the old man ,ntsrview with General Washington.
 First Peace Treaty.
 A treaty of peace and friendship vas made with the delegates. and since then inc Cherokees have been friends to the neople of the United States.
 Tn the early part of 17O0 Cherokee went to England on visit His name