Chief John Jolly Traditional Cache
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John Jolly, Cherokee name Ahuludegi, also known as Oolooteka, means "he who puts away the drum,” was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation West upon the death of his brother Tahlonteeskee in 1819.
Prior to emigrating to the west, he had served as headman of Cayuga town on Hiwassee Island in the later Hamilton County, Tennessee after his brother's departure for the west in 1809. When Sam Houston [later President of the Republic of Texas] ran away as a teenager to Hiwassee Island, he lived with John Jolly for three years, and he became John Jolly’s adopted son.
A treaty in 1817 gave the Cherokees land between the Arkansas and White Rivers. Soon after this treaty, John Jolly came to the area.
Sept. 11, 1824, while still in Arkansas, the Cherokees formally organized their government along democratic lines. Executive power was vested in a - first, second, and third chief. John Jolly was elected first chief, Black Coat was second chief, and Walter Webber was third chief. War with the Osages necessitated having three leaders. In May, 1828, they were forced to give up land in Arkansas for land in what is now Oklahoma.
After emigration of the western Cherokees to Indian Territory, Chief Jolly lived on the Illinois River, a short distance from the present town of Gore, Oklahoma.
When Houston resigned as Governor of Tennessee, he went to John Jolly’s home in Indian Territory, where he was again received as a son, and where he married John Jolly’s niece, Tiana Rogers.
John Jolly died in December 1838.
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