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The Massacre at Ywahoo Falls (or the Great Cherokee Children Massacre) is alleged to have occurred on Friday, August 10, 1810, at Yahoo Falls, now in the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeast Kentucky, in which women and children of the Cherokee were supposedly massacred. The primary source of the story is "The Great Cherokee Children Massacre at Ywahoo Falls", written by Dan Troxell. The story is also mentioned in the 1999 book, ''Hiking the Big South Fork'', which gives Troxell as its source.〔 〕 Eventually the tale caught the attention of Dr. Kenneth Tankersley of the Native American Studies program at Northern Kentucky University who wrote an article called "Yahoo Falls Massacre, McCreary County, Kentucky" in the mid-2000s (apparently part of his upcoming book, ''Kentucky Cherokee: People of the Cave''), though the only references he supplies directly related to the story of the massacre itself are oral interviews with members of the Troxell family.〔Tankersley, Kenneth Barnett, PhD, "Yahoo Falls Massacre, McCreary County, Kentucky", http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brockfamily/YahooFalls-byKTankersley.html〕 ==The alleged massacre== According to the tale, in order that the women and children of the Cumberland River valley might acquire a white-man's education, the Reverend Gideon Blackburn proposed to open a school on Cherokee land 125 miles away near Chattanooga (the story claims the school was in Sequatchie Valley), and on the day in question it was arranged that anybody seeking protection at the school should meet at Yahoo Falls at full moon. According to the story, they were to be led by the supposed "Cornblossom", alleged daughter of the War Chief Doublehead, but were instead massacred by a contingent of soldiers sent by John Sevier, who was from the State of Tennessee not the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Parts of Tennessee were at times called Kentucky. Tradition supports Cherokee Chief Arun or Aaron Brock Redbird as having been somehow connected to the events. Chief Redbird and some Cherokee Chiefs also appear to have fought in the Kings Mountain, NC area with the Colonials in the U.S. Revolutionary War in the Battle of Kings Mountain or other nearby battles. Later, many Cherokee linked to them turned against the Colonials like Shelby who supported removing and killing Indians, including Cherokee. Shelby was Kentucky's first Governor after the state gained independence from Virginia. Many of these peoples, Cherokee and white and others also had Carolina and other southern state connections. The Massacre Story seems to support oral and other stories since Kentucky did support removing the Cherokee and other Indians from the state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Massacre at Ywahoo Falls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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