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In the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee, most were allied with the British. Nancy allied with the colonists. In July 1775, Dragging Canoe led the Chickamauga Cherokee band to attack the American settlements and forts in the Appalachians and other areas of the region. Militias retaliated, destroying Native villages and crops, and forcing Cherokee bands to give up most of their land by 1777.
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In 1816, Cherokee chiefs signed a treaty that sold part of their existing land in exchange for land in Arkansas.

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- She was known to be "she who walks among the spirits"
- she claimed she saw spirits that helped her find her way home when she was lost.
- she was a member of the wolf clan
- her parents were unknown but her borhters name was longfellow and her cousin name was dragging canoe

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Ward wrote a plea after realizing that everything that her people were being driven from their coexistence.

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Born - 1783, Chota
Died - 1822 or 24, Polk County, Tennessee

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After her death in 1822, she was buried on a hill in Tennessee near an inn of hers that she built

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When her husband was killed in battle against the creek nation, she decided to fight. After she won the war for her nation, they named her head of womans council.

("Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward Helped Lead the Cherokee Nation As a Teenager") - Caroline Klabanoff & Allyson Shettino

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This is the Cherokee Nation symbol. It symbolizes the enternal flame of the cherrokee people.
("Nanyehi “Nancy” Ward Helped Lead the Cherokee Nation As a Teenager") - Caroline Klabanoff & Allyson Shettino

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This is Nancy Ward, she is a mixed-blood Cherokee woman who lived during the eighteenth century, she was one of the Cherokee nation's "Beloved Woman." She believed that women are an important peace with white settlers
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