[Donald Meaker]

I would ask you not to refer to Stand Watie as your tribe's hero. Rather, you should refer to President Ross as a person of that Stature.

[stand watie]

Chief Ross was a GOOD MAN but a miserable excuse for a war leader and/or a diplomat. (in his defense, by the time the WBTS broke out, he was "too tired & sick" to do much of anything.) age/infirmity comes to us all if we live long enough, but Ross should have resigned his post & retired, leaving the BIG job to a more forceful man.

i suggest that you desist from giving advice on what should have been done, as you seem to know almost nothing about the tribal politics of that time.

our GENERAL remains, with Sequoia, our TWO principal heroes.

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