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Chief Doublehead: Warrior In The Cherokee Indians

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The person that I picked to talk about is Chief Doublehead. My grandma told me that Doublehead was my ancestor. Chief Doublehead was born in 1744. Doublehead was a warrior in the Cherokee Indian Tribe. He had a brother that was named Pumpkin Boy. The Indians and the Americans were at war with each other. It was in 1791 when Doublehead, Dragging Canoe, Bloody Fellow, Lying Fawn, John Watts, and Little Turkey signed a treaty to end the battles. Something very important happened in 1793 that was horrible. Doublehead, Pumpkin Boy, and Bench ambushed two Americans in Kentucky. They all scalped them. After they were done scalping them, they stripped the flesh off their bones, roasted it and ate it.
Something else that happened later that year was

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