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The listed coordinates for the cache will take you near suspected resting place of a Native American who saved the life of General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend
This Native American saved the life of General Andrew Jackson but later after becoming President of the UNited States, Andrew Jackeson forced him and his family to move from his native WNC mountains toward Oklahoma during what is known as “The Trail of Tears” Born in the mid 1700's near what is now Murphy, NC, this Cherokee “Chief” was first known as Gulkalaski. He took a wife and began raising his family in the beautiful Snowbird mountains. Gulkalaski rose in the ranks of the Cherokee to become a leader of the Snowbird Clan.
During the Creek wars of 1812-1814 Gulkalaski took 500 of his Cherokee scouts to help General Andrew Jackson win the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend. Gulkalaski had sworn to his people that they would exterminate the Creeks.
When Gulkalaski returned to the Snowbird Clan he related the events of the battle, according to the Cherokee custom, at the next dance after his return. Explaining that General Jackson and Major Ridge's Cherokee regiment did not carry the battle on to eradicate the whole of the Creek Nation forever as he had promised, Gulkalaski told his story with a single word, detsinulahungu, "I tried, but could not". This was a cue to the song leader, who at once took it as the burden of his song. Thenceforth the disappointed warrior was known as Tsunulahunski, "One who tries, but fails".
“Chief” Tsunulahunski lead one of the seventeen contingents of Cherokee on the "Trail Where They Cried". His wife died on the Trail or shortly thereafter. Chief Tsunulahunski later returned to the Snowbird Mountains, walking all the way back to the land of the Little Tennessee. His old friend Colonel William Thomas plead Chief Tsunulahunski's case to the General Assembly of North Carolina and on 2 January, 1847 they ratified "An Act in Favor of the Cherokee Chief, (opps, can’t tell you)", "who distinguished himself in the service of the United States at the battle of Horse Shoe as commander of a body of Cherokees, as well as divers other occasions during the last war with Great Britain. The Assembly awarded him full citizenship, 337 acres of land in Cherokee county, district 9, tract No. 19, and one hundred dollars.
“Chief” Tsunulahunski took a Cherokee wife, Ni-suh, and raised a family of two boys, Jim-my and Sic-que-yuh, and one girl, Na-lih. He died on 20 October, 1868, at over 100 years of age. His grave is on a hill in the town of Robbinsville and is marked with a memorial stone erected by the General Joseph Winston Chapter of D.A.R. in 1910.
Surrounding this monument, you will be joined by monuments of seven clans; Paint, Bird, Long Hair, Wild Potato, Deer, Wolf, and Blue.
Your GPS should lead you south from the memorial in search of the cache.
Please make sure container is completely colsed and sealed in order to prevent moisture and critters from getting in.
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