grandfather, Brittain Jefferson Stewart, who married Hannah Hampton. They had 14 children, the 10th of which was my mother, Ida Belle, who married William Eldridge Slagle, my father. My mother and her sister always maintained that we had Native Americanroots, but they had not been able to determine what they were. Thanks to the genealogical work of many whose results are available on the Internet now, I have been able to make the connection to Chief Dragging Canoe, who must have been to the Cherokee and the Southeastern tribes the equal of Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Crazy Horse to the western native peoples. The "progress" of history has been relentlessly cruel to native people the world over since time began, and those who stood up for theirwith how Tilda had Snow and who her Snow brothers might be? Thank you, Anita Snow anitasmason@gmail.com

I am finding all this history of Dragging Canoe vastly interesting! I am descended through Sarah Naky Canoe, his daughter who married Alex Brown. Ales Brown Jr. was born to them, and he married violet Barton. They had 11 children, one of them,Sarah Brown, is my great-great-great grandmother. She married Elijah Hambelton, and they had Zaccharis Sanford Hambelton who married Sarah Greer. Sara Cuba Dell Hambelton was their daughter who married Thomas Nelson Atkins. Their son Lester Virgil Atkins is my paternal grandfather. I too am very proud to call this War Chief my ancestor. His intelligence and persistence should be celebrated!

tk125, i am in the Alexander Brown and Violet Barton family