Cherokee, biography, Bushyhead, Jesse.

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Cherokee, biography, Bushyhead, Jesse.

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Contains biographical information the subject of the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, first Supreme Court Justice of the Cherokee Nation.

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Northeastern State University, Tahlequah Campus, John Vaughan Library

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Northeastern State University, Tahlequah Campus, John Vaughan Library

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Bushyhead, Jesse, 1804-1844

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Jesse Bushyhead (Cherokee ᎤᎾᏚᏘ, romanized Unaduti; 1804–1844) was a Cherokee religious and political leader, and a Baptist minister. He was born near the present-day town of Cleveland, Tennessee. As a young man, he was ordained a Baptist minister. A member of the John Ross faction of the Cherokee, he was dispatched by Ross in 1837 on a mission to the Seminole. Although Bushyhead opposed the federal policy forcing Indian Removal to west of the Mississippi River, he led a party of about 1,000 peo...