Hills of Tennessee

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This was his homeland, land of his fathers, where they roamed and hunted unmolested for hundreds of years. But now white men were encroaching upon their rights, even fighting with each other for supremacy of portions of Indian land. The conflicts between the French and English had been going on for a long time, he was told. But recently, it was coming nearer, and Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia was begging for the Cherokees to come and help fight the French. White Star admired the English and felt a strong loyalty toward them. Perhaps this was because his father was Occanosta, one of the chiefs along with Attakullkula and others who went to England with Sir Alexander Cumings.