Old Tassel

Utsi'dsata, or Corntassel, known to history as Old Tassel, became First Beloved Man, at least of the Overhill and other non-belligerent Cherokee, in 1783 after the elders removed his predecessor, The Raven of Chota. A strong advocate of peace, he strove, only somewhat successfully, to keep the people of the Overhill region out of the Chickamauga wars between the white settlers in what is now East Tennessee and the warriors under Dragging Canoe. He and another pacifist chief, Abraham of Chilhowee, were murdered under a flag of truce during an embassy to the State of Franklin in 1788, an atrocity which brought all the Cherokee, at least briefly, to support the hostile warriors under Dragging Canoe. His brothers were the warriors Pumpkin Boy and Doublehead. Old Tassel's maternal nephew was John Watts, also known as Young Tassel.

Sources

• Alderman, Pat. Dragging Canoe: Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief. (Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 1978)
• Brown, John P. Old Frontiers. (Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938).
• Haywood, W. H. The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from its Earliest Settlement up to the Year 1796. (Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, 1891).
• Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769–1923, Vol. 1. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923).
• Ramsey, James Gettys McGregor. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. (Chattanooga: Judge David Campbell, 1926).

Preceded by Savanukah

First Beloved Man 1783–1788

Succeeded by Little Turkey

Persondata
Name	Old Tassel
Alternative names
Short description	Chief of the Overhill Cherokee
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1788
Place of death

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