of truce at Abraham's house. He allowed Kirk to murder them by tomahawk for revenge in June 1788. The Maryland Gazette harshly condemned the murders of the chiefs, saying that the flag of truce was "a protection inviolable even amongst the most barbarous people, sacred by the law and custom of nations..." The Cherokee considered these murders to be atrocities, and many gave new support to Dragging Canoe and his warriors afterward. Ultimately this resulted in the Cherokee Massacre at Cavett's Station on September 25, 1793. References Bibliography Alderman, Pat. Dragging Canoe: Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief. (Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 1978) Brown, John P. Old Frontiers. (Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938). Haywood, W. H. The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from its Earliest Settlement up to the Year 1796. (Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, 1891). Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769–1923, Vol. 1. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923). Ramsey, James Gettys McGregor. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. (Chattanooga: Judge David Campbell, 1926). Brian Gene Corntassel, Descendant, Master Cherokee Nation Genealogist External links http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/che0008.htm 1788 deaths 18th-century Cherokee people People of pre-statehood Tennessee Year of birth unknown 18th-century Native Americans Native American people from Tennessee Murdered Native American people People murdered in Tennessee