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The Great Childrens Massacre at Yahoo Falls The Cherokee inhabited what is now known as modern day southeast Kentucky. The area from Cumberland Plateau (Knoxville, Tennessee) to Cumberland River (Kentucky) was lead by Doublehead and his daughter Cornblossom. Cornblossom was arranging all the women and children from Southeast Kentucky to Northern Tennessee to come seek refuge at the Yahoo Falls. They then would make the journey to the Presbertearian Indian School at Sequatchie Valley outside of Chattanooga Tennessee. This is the only way that the cherokee children will survive, the children of all ages would go as one group southward to the school and escape to saftey from Indian fighters gathering in the neighboring counties of Wayne and Pulaski (Tankersley, 2002).
 * An indian fighter named Hiram "Big Tooth" Gregory who came from Sullivan County Tennessee. He fought many Franklinite campaigns under John Seveir to eliminate all cherokee within the region altogether. The campaign came up with a concept called "nits make lice", it explained that nits (baby lice) refering to cherokee childern would grow up and create bigger problems (lice). Franklinite phiolosphy was killing the cherokee children would eliminate the cherokee nation, then there would be no reason to not continue with expansion of white settlements ("Cherokee In Kentucky").
 * Franklinites were ordered to split open the bellies of pregnant Cherokee in order to eliminate the potential problem of more Cherokee.
 * Breaking the 1807 peace treaty between War Chief Peter Troxell and the Governor of Kentucky, Big Tooth Gregory crossed onto Cherokee land. The indian fighters split into two group to attack the women and children. One group entered through Wayne County and the other entered from neighboring Pulaski county in southeast Kentucky (Tankersley, 2002).
 * Over a hundered woman and childern were killed waiting to escape to saftey, along with many other Cherokee leaders on August 10, 1810 ("Cherokee In Kentucky")





References: "Reflections." //The Cherokee In Kentucky//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr 2012. <http://silverreflection.tripod.com/reflections/id21.html Tankersley, K. (2002). //Yahoo falls massacre, mccreary county, kentucky//. Retrieved from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brockfamily/YahooFalls-byKTankersley.html Images: [] []