The Cherokee used legal means in their attempt ... As in the first war, fugitive slaves fought beside the Seminoles who had taken them in. Thousands of lives were lost in the war, which cost ...

and was given the Cherokee name Degataga, meaning "stand firm." His father - also a slave owner - was baptized, giving his son the Christian name Isaac S Uwatie. Dropping the 'U' and combining it ...

In Cherokee society, “kinship, not freedom” was the opposite of slavery, writes historian Tiya Miles. “In the Cherokee understanding, to be kin meant being human, and to be human meant being ...