EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles.
A Yakama council overruled the chief, however, siding with Shumaway's older brother, Kamiakin, who called for war preparations. Meanwhile, district commander Gabriel Rains had received Shumaway's ambassador and, in response to the news of Bolon's death, ordered Major Granville O. Haller to move out with an expeditionary column from Fort Dalles.
Eventually, militia leaders Brice and Colonel John Barnwell managed to organize several hundred white militia and hundreds of Catawba, Cherokee and South Carolina Yamasee warriors. In 1715, the Yamasee War began as members of the Yamasee tribe attacked English settlers in colonial South Carolina.