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 ...

All Five Large Tribes (Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole) practiced European-style chattel slavery in what is now considered present-day Oklahoma. The Freedmen of these ...

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 ...