Attakullakulla
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Attakullakulla (Cherokee "Tsalagi", (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) Atagukalu and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to around 1775. His son was Dragging Canoe, the first leader of the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee tribes.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- Place of death
- North Carolina
- Occupation
- traditional leader or chief
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- Cherokee Delegations to England, 1730.png
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- date of death
- 1778-01-01
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- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- date of birth
- 1700-00-00
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- Attakullakulla
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- Cherokee
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Attakullakulla (Cherokee "Tsalagi", (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) Atagukalu and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to around 1775. His son was Dragging Canoe, the first leader of the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee tribes.
While Attakullakulla was "a man of remarkably small stature, he was noted for his maturity, wisdom, and graciousness." Attakullakulla knew some English but was not fluent. He was, however, considered the most gifted Cherokee orator from the 1760s to the 1770s. He first appeared in historic records in 1730, noted as accompanying Alexander Cuming, a British treaty commissioner, and six other Cherokee to England. He was one of the signatories of an early Cherokee treaty with Great Britain.
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