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To: stand watie
The book I read did not say that the Cherokees did not fight for the South in NC, only that they did so out of loyalty to their chief, rather than from convictions regarding secession or other issues under dispute.
196 posted on 01/08/2004 3:25:55 PM PST by Tax-chick (I reserve the right to disclaim all January 2004 posts after the BABY is born!)
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To: Tax-chick
sorry, but given our family/clan/tribal affiliations & traditional culture, it amounts to the same thing/reasoning. there was also a lot of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", too i suspect.

as the "filth that flowed down from the north" raged through the southland, like a pack of rabid swine,committing robberies, looting,burning & "running off stock", as well as assaulting,raping,torturing,sodomizing & MURDERING the blacks,browns,reds,jews,roman catholics,recent immigrants & the poorest of the poor of the southland on a wholesale basis, much of the Cherokee's (and other tribe's) warlike response to the invasion and avalance of WAR CRIMES was SELF-PRESERVATION!

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200 posted on 01/08/2004 3:54:07 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ,T. Jefferson)
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