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Tango01  | 24 Nov 2023 4:49 p.m. PST |
"He was a Cherokee leader who signed the Treaty of New Echota, which led to the tribe's removal from its homeland in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). He also fought for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, including at one of the fiercest battles in Arkansas, becoming the only American Indian to achieve a general's rank on either side during the war.
Stand Watie was named Degadoga, which means "he stands," when he was born on Dec. 12, 1806, near New Echota, Ga., the son of Oo-wa-tie, who was a full-blooded Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, who was half Cherokee. When his father took the name David Watie after his baptism in the Moravian Church, he renamed his son Isaac S. Watie. The youth combined his Cherokee and Moravian names to become Stand Watie…"
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