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468:(aka Charley) and his sons killed soldiers who had rounded them up for removal, Will Thomas acted as an intermediary between the Qualla Cherokees and the U.S. Army and helped find Tsali's hiding place. After the Cherokees executed Tsali, the Qualla Cherokee were granted the right to remain on their ancestral lands. The state of North Carolina, however, would continue to try and remove them, and Thomas represented the tribe in resisting those efforts. While it was his adopted father, Yonaguska, who planned and prepared the way for the Qualla Cherokees to remain east, Will Thomas worked in support of his adopted father's plan for decades after Yonaguska's death. With his own funds and those provided by the Cherokee, he bought land in North Carolina to be used by the Cherokee. Much of this property is now included in 568:. Although technically the New Echota Treaty should not have applied to them, the Qualla Cherokee were justly apprehensive. While most Cherokee opposed ceding their lands in the Southeast, the men negotiating the New Echota Treaty believed that removal was inevitable, and hoped to make the best deal possible for their people. Will Thomas, already their agent/attorney, worked to secure their safety both on the state level and on the Federal level in Washington, D.C. 113: 25: 248: 66: 678:
warwhoops" and "hideous yells," according to a Union report, firing occasional shots to improve the effect. The next morning Thomas and about 20 Cherokee entered Waynesville under a flag of truce to demand the surrender of the garrison. The Union troops did so. On May 9, 1865, however, a Union officer told Thomas that General
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Colonel Thomas and his Legion guarded the mountains surrounding Waynesville. During the night of May 5, 1865, they built hundreds of campfires to make the Union garrison think that thousands of Cherokee and Confederates were about to attack them. The Cherokee punctuated the nights with "chilling
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In April 1839, Thomas was picked by Yonaguska as successor Principal Chief of the Qualla Cherokee, this is also recognized officially by the EBCI. However, Salonitah also laid claim as Principal Chief because of his distrust of Thomas, though he never had full support of all the Qualla Cherokee.
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Thomas became a successful merchant and was a lifelong ally of the Eastern Cherokee. In 1819, Yonaguska had made the prescient decision to separate his group from the authority of the Cherokee Nation. The Qualla Cherokee became "citizenized" (they were under the authority of the state of North
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Thomas's mental condition began to deteriorate. Many historians have speculated about the causes of his insanity, but it is not yet known. He fell hopelessly into debt. Compounding his worries was his responsibilities among and with the Cherokee, who suffered a devastating
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Thomas married Sarah Jane Burney Love (1832–1877), the daughter of James Robert Love and Maria Coman Love. She was the fourth of their eight children. James Robert Love was the son of Robert Love, known as the founder of Waynesville, North Carolina.
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In about 1820 Felix Walker was forced to close his stores. The story is told that, unable to pay Thomas what he owed him, he gave the youth a set of law books. At the time states did not have bar exams. Men prepared to practice law by
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During the 1840s and 1850s, Thomas worked to gain recognition of the Cherokee as citizens of North Carolina and continued to purchase land for them in his name. At the time, Cherokee were prohibited from owning land outside the
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In 1819, Yonaguska and other North Carolina Cherokees made the decision to become "citizenized" residents of North Carolina. They received land reserves of 640 acres (2.6 km) and were no longer part of the
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Carolina, but without the full rights of white citizens). In 1830, Will Thomas became the agent/attorney for the Qualla Cherokee. As the U.S., under President Andrew Jackson, pushed for full
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had surrendered his army one month earlier, and the colonel agreed to lay down his arms. The Civil War was over, and the last shots in North Carolina were those fired in Waynesville.
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by telling him of Cherokee history and lifeways. Mooney was doing research and field studies on the Cherokee in western North Carolina.
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Thomas opened his own trading post for the Qualla Town Cherokee. Later he opened several other trading posts in Western North Carolina.
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of the Southeast, Will Thomas helped the North Carolina Cherokees resist removal by buying land for them. After a Cherokee man named
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After the war, Thomas went back to Stecoah, where he lived with his wife and three children. In 1866, he received a
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while deployed in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. By May 1865, the main Confederate armies has surrendered and
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On May 6, 1865, Thomas' Legion fired "The Last Shot" of the Civil War east of the Mississippi River in
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When the Civil War broke out, Thomas organized a Legion of local Cherokees and whites to support the
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Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers
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and was befriended and later adopted by the chief/headman of the local Cherokees,
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soldiers controlled Waynesville and the rest of Western North Carolina.
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Correspondences of William Holmes Thomas during the American Civil War
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Rebel Chief: The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas, C.S.A
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Yonaguska's citizenized Cherokees became the core of what is now
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American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law
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Official History for Thomas' Legion of Indians and Highlanders
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who frequented the post and learned their language. Chief
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United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (1939–present)
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Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
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Sara Thomas Avery (May 1899). "William Holland Thomas".
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During the Civil War, Thomas served as a colonel in the
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Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
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Thomas, Elizabeth Avery; Savage, Kirk (May 19, 2020).
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Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
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Guide to the William Holland Thomas Papers, 1814-1898
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based his main character, Will Cooper, in his novel
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Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War
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