of the prin-
i Indian Treaties, pp. 34-38, 1837; Secretary of War, report, January 5, 1798, in American State
Papers, I, pp. 628-631, 1832; Ramsey, Tennessee, pp. 554-560, 1853; Etoyee, Cherokee Nation, Fifth
Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 158-170. with full discussion and map, 1888.
'- Indian Treaties, pp. 37, 38, 1837.
Til MTTH8 OF THE CHEROKEE [bth.akn.19
cipal raiders on the Tennessee frontier, the new name may have been
symbolicof bis change of bear! at the prospectof a return of peace.
The treaty seems to have bad little effect in preventing Indian hos-
tilities, probabrj because the intruders still remained upon the Indian
lands, and raiding still continued. The Creeks were known to be
responsible for someof the mischief, and the hostile Chickamaugas
were supposed to be the chief authors of the rest. 1 Even while the
Cherokee delegateswere negotiating the treaty in Philadelphia a boat
which had accidentally run aground on the Muscle shoals was attacked
by a party of Indians under the pretense of offering assistance, one
man being killed and another severely wounded with a hatchet.'
While these negotiations had been pending at Philadelphia a young-
man named Leonard D. Shaw, a student at Princeton college, had
expressed to the Secretary of War an earnest desire lor a commission
which would enable him to accompany the returning Cherokee dele-
gates to their southern home, there to study Indian life and charac-
teristics. As the purpose seemed a useful one. and he appeared well
qualified tor such a work, he was accordingly commissioned as deputy
agent to reside among- the Cherokee to observe and report upon their
movements, to aid in the annuity distributions, and to