USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was a Cherokee Chief that was killed when Lamar ordered all Cherokee out of Texas?
A
Jose Antonio Navarro
B
Chief Bowles
C
Vicente Cordova
D
Matilda Lockhart
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chief John Bowles (Duwali) died on July 16, 1839. His body was left on the battlefield. In 1936, a marker to Chief Bowles’ memory was placed on a plain above the Neches River about 13 miles west of Tyler, Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American Indian Cultural Society maintains the land outside of Tyler where Chief Bowl was killed on July 16, 1839.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chief Bowl (also known as Duwali, Diwal’li, Chief Bowles, Colonel Bowles, Bold Hunter, and the Bowl), the principal chief of the Cherokees in Texas, was born in North Carolina around 1756. He was the son of a Scottish father and a full-blooded Cherokee mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Bowl (also Chief Bowls); John Watts Bowles (Cherokee: Di’wali) (ca. 1756 – July 16, 1839) was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars, served as a Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation–West, and was a leader of the Texas Cherokees (Tshalagiyi nvdagi).

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