the chief of Ta'likwa

Family: the Cherokee · Role: chief · First appears: Myth 89 · The Iroquois Wars · Part 2

Life events

• The chief prevented the townsmen from killing the Iroquois messenger and allowed him to bring his companions.(Myth 89 · The Iroquois Wars · Part 2 · 📍 Ta'likwa)
  • “By this time the word had gone out that an Iroquois was in the chief's house, and the men of the town had left their work and seized their guns to kill him, but the chief heard them coming and standing in the doorway kept them off, saying: ‘This man has come here on a peace mission, and before you kill him you must first kill me.’ They finally listened to him, and allowed the messenger to go out and bring his companions to the chief's house, where they were all taken care of.”

Myth 89 · The Iroquois Wars · Part 2

• recipient: the Iroquois messenger (Myth 89) (The chief protects the messenger from the townsmen who intend to kill him.) “This man has come here on a peace mission, and before you kill him you must first kill me.”
• child: his daughter (Myth 89) “As it happened the chief and his family were at work in their cornfield, and his daughter had just gone up to the house for some reason when the Iroquois entered and asked for something to eat.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Cherokee. Made with Rho MD.