Showing posts with label Dragging Canoe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dragging Canoe. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Dragging Canoe's Famous Speech Upon His Refusal To Surrender Like Attakullakulla

"Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our People except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. Where are the Delaware? They have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former greatness.

We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond mountains. Now that hope is gone. They have passed the mountains and have settled upon Tslalagi land. They wish to have the usurpation sanctioned by treaty. When that is gained, the same encroaching spirit will lead them upon other land of the Tsalagi. New concessions will be asked.

Finally the whole country, which the Tsalagi and their fathers have so long occupied will be demanded and the remnant of the Ani Yuwiya, The Real People, once so great and formidable will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness. There they will be permitted to stay only a short while until they again behold the advancing banners of the same greedy host. Not being able to point out any further retreat for the miserable Tsalagi, the extinction of the whole race will be proclaimed.

Should we not therefore run all risks and incur all consequences rather than to submit to further loss of our country? Such treaties may be all right for men who are too old to hunt or fight.

As for me, I have my young warriors about me. WE WILL HOLD OUR LAND!

Chief Dragging Canoe, Chickamauga Tsalagi 1775

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Time Is Near - Prepare

Many of us have been watching and waiting for the fulfillment of the prophesies passed down to us from numerous tribes and visionary Chiefs and Medicine People. Many brave Men and Women gave their lives so that we might survive to witness these times.

Dragging Canoe still holds his land. Geronimo's spirit fights on. The great Chiefs hold council in the Spirit World and make medicine to help us. If you listen, you can hear them.

Tecumseh's organized a Pan American Indian Nation in order to drive all the white man back from where they came. He foretold a great shaking of the earth preceded by the streaking of a comet. He sent his message to the tribes carved on cedar sticks.


The signs came, but our People panicked. The chance was lost. But he was not wrong. Tecumseh's vision came 200 years too early.

But the time is at hand. Get yourselves ready. Rid your lives of habits that make you foolish and weak. They serve only the white man's purpose.

Know in your heart who you are. You cannot be both white and red. Learn your own Creation Stories. Follow your own Prophets...

Be always ready for when it comes, it will come quickly.

Aho!