Sarki Yanabe Yalangway

**Rubutu mai gwaɓi****Sarki Yanabe Yalangway** shi ne *eractasswa* (shugaban) na Catawba kasar Indian, wani lokaci a cikin shekarun 1740. Ba a san abubuwa da yawa game da shi ba sai dai gaskiyar cewa ya riga Sarki Hagler a matsayin shugaban. Horarwarsa a bayyane yake a karkashin jagorancin "sarki" Whitmannetaughehee.

A matsayinsa na jarumi ya yi aiki a lokacin yaƙi na dogon lokaci tare da kabilun arewa, musamman Iroquois Seneca, da Lenape (aka Delaware), mutanen da ke magana da harshen Algonquian waɗanda suka mamaye yankunan bakin teku kuma suka zama magoya bayan Iroquoes bayan sun yi ƙaura zuwa kwarin Ohio. Catawba sun kori jam'iyyun da suka kai hari zuwa arewa a cikin shekarun 1720 da 1730, suna haye Kogin Potomac. A wani lokaci, an ce wata jam'iyya ta Catawba ta bi wata jam'iyyar Lenape wacce ta kai musu hari, kuma ta mamaye su kusa da Leesburg, Virginia. A can ne suka yi yaƙi mai tsanani.

Irin wannan gamuwa a cikin wannan yaƙin da ba ya gajiyawa an ruwaito sun faru a Franklin na yanzu, West Virginia (1725),  Hanging Rocks da bakin Potomac South Branch a West Virginia, da kuma kusa da bakin Antietam Creek (1736) da Conococheague Creek a Maryland.  Mooney ya tabbatar da cewa sunan Catawba Creek a Botetourt ya fito ne daga gamuwa a cikin waɗannan yaƙe-yaƙe tare da kabilun arewa, ba daga Catawba da suka zauna a can ba.

Gwamnatocin mulkin mallaka na Virginia da New York sun gudanar da majalisa a Albany, New York a cikin 1721, wanda wakilai daga Kasashe shida (*Haudenosaunee*) da Catawba suka halarta. Masu mulkin mallaka sun nemi zaman lafiya tsakanin Confederacy da Catawba, duk da haka Kasashe shida sun tanadi ƙasar yammacin Blue Ridge Mountains don kansu, gami da Hanyar Indiya ko Hanyar Great Warriors (daga baya ake kira Great Wagon Road) ta hanyar Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina da Georgia. Wannan hanyar da aka yi tafiya sosai, wanda aka yi amfani da ita har zuwa 1744 ta jam'iyyun yaƙi na Seneca, ya ratsa Kwarin Shenandoah zuwa Kudu.

A cikin 1738, annobar kyanda ta barke a Kudancin Carolina. Ya haifar da mutuwar mutane da Ruwa, ba kawai tsakanin Anglo-Americans ba, amma musamman tsakanin Catawba da sauran kabilun da suka danganci, kamar su Waxhaw, Wateree, Congaree, Sugeree, Santee, Waccamaw, Winyah, Sissipahaw, Shakori, Enoke, Cheraw, Peedee, Dawhee, da dai sauransu. A ƙarshe bayan wannan annobar, Yanabe Yalangway ya zama babban shugaban mutanen Catawba, ba lallai ba ne a matsayin magajin Whitmannetaughee kai tsaye. Sissipahaw, Shakori, Enoke da kuma yiwuwar wasu ƙananan kabilun sun shiga cikin mutanen Catawba don tsira da kansu da kuma karfafa mutanen Yanabe Yalangway.

Yanabe Yalangway ya kasance babban shugaban mutanen Catawba lokacin da, a cikin 1744, Yarjejeniyar Lancaster, da aka yi a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ta sabunta Yarjejeniyar Alkawari tsakanin Iroquois da masu mulkin mallaka da gwamnan Virginia, wanda bai iya hana mazauna shiga yankin Iroquoes ba, ya ba kabilar biyan kuɗin da'awar ƙasarsu. Wataƙila zaman lafiya ya kasance na ƙarshe ga Iroquois, waɗanda suka kafa Kwarin Ohio a matsayin filin farautar da suka fi so ta hanyar haƙƙin cin nasara, amma yawancin kabilun yammacin sun ci gaba da yaƙi da Catawba, waɗanda yanzu sun ragu sosai har zuwa yawan su da za su iya haifar da ƙarancin juriya. A shekara ta 1744 Natchez da Pedee sun kai hari kuma sun kashe mutane da yawa na Catawba kuma Catawba sun kore su zuwa ƙauyukan Turai. A lokacin "King George's War" (1744-1748) Shawnee kuma, a ƙarshe, Cherokee (amma kudancin Shawnee wani lokacin ana kiransu "Cherokee") sun kai hare-hare kan Catawba kuma, lokacin da Catawba suka yi ƙoƙarin neman mafaka a cikin ƙauyukan Carolinian, a kan waɗannan ƙauyuka ma. "Sarki" Yanabe Yalangway dole ne ya magance waɗannan shekaru masu wahala kuma ya jagoranci Catawba a cikin wani lokaci mai mahimmanci.

Wani rukuni na Iroquois ne ya kashe shi a shekara ta 1750, a lokacin rikici da Iroquoes daga Arewa. Yana kan hanyarsa ta komawa gida daga Charleston bayan wani taro tare da Gwamnan mulkin mallaka na Kudancin Carolina James Glen .

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