Dragging Canoe led his people further down the Tennessee River.

In addition, the Cherokee leader Dragging Canoe sent a contingent of warriors for a specific action.

Dragging Canoe survived smallpox at a young age, which left his face marked.

Dragging Canoe is considered by many to be the most significant Native Americans leader of the Southeast.

They were a precursor of the alliances of Dragging Canoe.

Dragging Canoe took a party of 80 warriors to provide security for the packtrain.

Dragging Canoe and his Cherokee were full members of the Confederacy.

Both men had been among those who originally followed Dragging Canoe into the southwest of the nation.

By morning, March 1, 1792, Dragging Canoe was dead.

This action enraged the Cherokee, and many of them threw their support behind Dragging Canoe.