People of Oklahoma in the American Civil War - Stand Watie, Opothleyahola, Douglas H. Cooper, Halleck Tustestand Watie, Opothleyahola, Douglas H. Cooper, Halleck Tustenuggee, Sonuk Mikko, Sam Sixkiller Nuggee, Sonuk Mikko, Sam Sixkiller (Paperback)

Chapters: Stand Watie, Opothleyahola, Douglas H. Cooper, Halleck Tustenuggee, Sonuk Mikko, Sam Sixkiller, George Washington Grayson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: State of Georgia Stand Watie (December 12, 1806 September 9, 1871) (also known as Standhope Oowatie, Degataga "stand firm" and Isaac S. Watie) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Confederate Indian cavalry of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi made up mostly of Cherokee, Muskogee and Seminole. He also served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1862-1866. Watie was born in Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation (now Calhoun, Georgia) on December 12, 1806, the son of Uwatie (Cherokee for "the ancient one"), who went by his Christian name of David Uwatie, and Susanna Reese, who was of Cherokee and European heritage. He was the brother of Galagina "Buck" Watie (Elias Boudinot). The brothers were nephews of Major Ridge, and cousins to John Ridge. By 1827, David Uwatie had become a wealthy slave-owning planter. Stand Watie, who was also a Christian, was given the name of Isaac Uwatie; however, he preferred the English translation of his Cherokee name Degataga ("Stand Firm"). Later, the "U" was dropped from "Uwatie" and the family name became Watie. Stand Watie learned to read and write English at the Moravian mission school in Spring Place, Cherokee Nation (now Georgia), and occasionally helped write for the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, which led him into the dispute over the Georgia state repressive anti-Indian laws. Later, when gold was discovered on Cherokee lands in northern Georgia, thousands of white settlers encroached on Indian lands. In spite of federal treaties protecting Indians from...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=54922