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Many Cherokee, resentful of the white settlers who were moving into Cherokee lands, and sympathetic to the Chickamauga cause, joined the ranks of Dragging Canoe's followers. In addition, the Cherokee towns and villages of Hiwassie, Tennessee, Chestowee, Ocoee, and Amohee in the vicinity of Hiwassie River joined in several operations, as did the Lower Cherokee in North Georgia who'd been forced there from their previous homes in South Carolina by the Treaty of Dewitts' Corner. The [[Yuchi]] living on Pinelog, Conasauga, and Chickamauga creeks likely provided support as well.

The main targets of Chickamauga attacks were the [[Watauga River|Watauga]] and [[Holston River]] settlements in upper [[East Tennessee]] (as well as the later [[State of Franklin]]), those Cumberland, and isolated stations in between, along with ambushes of parties travelling along the Tennessee or the local sections of the many ancient trails that served as "highways" such as the Great Indian Warpath (from [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] to northeasternnortheast [[Canada]]), the Cisca and St. Augustine Trail (from [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] to the French Salt Lick at [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], the Cumberland Trail (from the Upper Creek Path thru Lookout Valley to the Ohio Valley and [[Great Lakes]] thru [[Cumberland Gap]]), and the Nickajack Trail (from Nickajack, Tennessee to [[Athens, Georgia]]). However, this did not preclude their attacking targets in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

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