Dragging Canoe

Defender of Cherokee Lands and Traditions

Biography

Lithograph showing Dragging Canoe addressing Daniel Boone with others from both sides watching — “The Sycamore Shoals Treaty: From the painting by T. Gilbert White, in the Kentucky State Capitol.”

The boy who became Tsiyu Gansi-ni or “Dragging Canoe” was born around 1732 to the wife of the most prominent Cherokee leader of the time, Attakullakul