Charles Thompson ( Utselata , or Oochelata also ᎤᏤᎴᏛ in Cherokee ) was born to a full-blood Cherokee father and a European-American mother in the Southeastern United States . According to one writer , the mother had been kidnapped at a young age and raised by Cherokees . She never learned the identities of her real parents nor when or where she was born . As a result , she did not speak English and could communicate only in Cherokee . The family migrated west to Indian Territory during the Trail of Tears , and settled near the present-day site of Lake Spavinaw , in what is now Delaware County , Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Charles Thompson (Cherokee chief)