The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
THE STORY OF JUNALUSKA.
Prepared BY a Fourteen Year Old Boy
and approved BY Educators.

To the Editor: The inclosed is q
paper prepared and read by one Mas
ter VIII Walker, of Robbinsville, N.
c. He has collected the salient facts
i'm the history OF the famous Junalus-
ka, and presented them in his own
language. The paper was read before
the Teachers Association of Graham
county, and upon a motion for the
publication of the essay in the col
umns of your paper, Master viii kind
ly consented to permit his manuscript
to go to the press.
Master Will is a boy of IA He re-
ceived his training in the Robbins
vile High School, under the excellent
tuition of Miss G. A. Hawkins. This
is a demonstration of the work done
in this institution.
Your subscribers, as we'll as the
other citizens of our county, will be
delighted to see the article appear in
your paper. And following the article
this short biography of the writer.
JOHN H. HARDWOOD
j. w. HUGHES,
Committee.
Below is Master Wits paper on the
famous Indian, who was the friend OF
the white man.
Junaluska.
Junaluska was born in the northern
part of Georgia in the latter part of
the eighteenth century. He was an
Indian of the Cherokee tribe. He was
q man of tall stature. with broad
forehead, q Roman nose, his eyes were
black and sunk into his head; he had
a large mouth with large, white teeth;
he had fierce look in his eyes; he
also had an intelligent look, although
he had no education. He was a friend
to the whites; he was also an enemy
to the Greek Indians. When the
Creeks made war upon the whites,
Junaluska took Il leading part against
them. He joined General jackson and
was made scout by the General, and
at the Battle of The Horse Shoe Bend,
where the Tallapoosa River makes a
wind like a horse shoe. Jackson was
on the land to keep the Indians from
going out by land, but the Indians had
some canoes on the river so that they
could cross the river into the woods
and be safe. Junaluslia, without let
ting the Indians know what he was
going to do, went down to the river
and got it and swan to the canoes
and cut them loose. The Indians
found him out and began shooting at
him. He took one of the canoes and
SWAN by the side of it to keep the
Indians arrows off and thus he made
the trip. The next day Jackson as
saulted the breastWorks of the Indians
and defeated them. They not know
ing that all their canoes We're gone,
fell back to the river banks and found
what had happened SO they surren-
dered.
For this great act he was granted a
tract of land by the Government in
Western North Carolina in Graham
county (some of the besD on which
Robbnsvlle is now situated
After the war was over Junaluska
moved to the land which was given to
him for the act which | have related,
and was made chief of the Cherokee
tribe. He had his home in sight of
Robbinsvilo-he had his house in
about four hundred yards from the
court house of Robbinsville.
Junaluska was married twice and
has one child living in the west and
one dead.
Junaluska was sent to Washington
ASA representative of the Indians of
Western North Carolina. The people
there liked him very we'll and would
of this and would dress very fine. He
wore broad cloth. At one time he
got fine overcOat in Washington
orth twenty-siX dollars.
He died in his home on his farm
i'm Graham county at the age of about
one hundred years old. He lived long
and happy life. He always liked war
and took a delight in it.
He died q lifelong friend to the
white. He was buried on his farm
on Junaluska Hill with his last wife
and child. He is still loved by the
Indians and whites alike