27 Facts About Attakullakulla

Attakullakulla's son was Dragging Canoe, the first leader of the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee tribes.

Attakullakulla was considered the most gifted Cherokee orator from the 1760s to the 1770s.

Attakullakulla first appeared in historic records in 1730, noted as accompanying Alexander Cuming, a British treaty commissioner, and six other Cherokee to England.

Attakullakulla was one of the signatories of an early Cherokee treaty with Great Britain.

Attakullakulla is believed to have been born in the territory of the Overhill Cherokee, in what is East Tennessee, sometime in the early 1700s, although it is not known exactly when.

Attakullakulla's son, Turtle-at-Home, said that he was born to a sub-tribe of the Algonquian-speaking Nipissing in the North near Lake Superior.

Attakullakulla was captured as an infant during a raid in which his parents were killed, and brought south to Overhill territory, where he was adopted by a Cherokee family, and raised as Cherokee.

Attakullakulla married Nionne Ollie, the daughter of his cousin, Oconostota.

Attakullakulla was said to have been a Black, French speaking Natchez captive adopted by his cousin's wife.

In 1730, Attakullakulla was a member of a delegation of Cherokee leaders who traveled to England.

Attakullakulla journeyed to Pennsylvania, to Williamsburg, and then to Charles Town, securing the promise of British trade goods as compensation for participation in fighting.

Attakullakulla was forced to sign a treaty agreeing that the Cherokee would deliver suspected "murderers" in exchange for the nearly two dozen hostages confined at Fort Prince George.

Attakullakulla returned to Fort Prince George in early 1760 to negotiate for the release of the hostages, but to no avail.

Attakullakulla incited Cherokee warriors hiding in the woods to shoot and kill Coytmore.

Attakullakulla again attempted to negotiate a peace, but this was not achieved until 1761, when the British and South Carolina military conducted a punitive expedition against the Middle and Lower Towns.

Attakullakulla was robbed and harassed by angry frontiersmen on his journey home.

Attakullakulla honored treaty promises to the English but was opposed by fellow Cherokee for doing so.

Attakullakulla played the colonies of South Carolina and Virginia against each other in order to secure fair trading practices for his people.

Attakullakulla moved into the woods, finding it impolitic to be among either the ones who lost or the victors of the 1760 Cherokee War.

In 1772 Attakullakulla leased lands to the Watauga Association, an organization formed by Anglo-American settlers who wanted to create an independent community in what is the upper eastern corner of Tennessee.

Attakullakulla's son Dragging Canoe led a resistance to the United States in the 1780s.

Attakullakulla's son, Dragging Canoe, the Chickamauga Cherokee leader during the Cherokee-American wars, split with his father during this time.

Attakullakulla gave his rifle, clothes and all he could command to purchase Stuart.

Attakullakulla told his fellow Cherokee that he intended to go hunting and take his prisoner with him to eat venison.

Attakullakulla had a daughter named Rebecca "Nikiti" Carpenter with his first wife Nionne Ollie and another known as "Weena" with one of the survivors of the Loudon battle.

Attakullakulla is believed to have died between 1777 and 1780 in North Carolina, in territory that would later become Tennessee.

Attakullakulla was succeeded as First Beloved Man of Chota by Oconostota.