Amouskositte, or Amo-sgiasite, Prince of Chota ("Dreadful Water"), of
Great Tellico
Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in the region, and had a sister town nea ...
was the son of
Moytoy of Tellico
Moytoy of Tellico, (died 1741) was a prominent leader of the Cherokee in the American Southeast.
Titles
Moytoy was given the title of "Emperor of the Cherokee" by Sir Alexander Cumming, a Scots-Anglo trade envoy in what was then the Province of ...
and attempted to succeed him as "Emperor of the Cherokee", a title given his father by Alexander Cuming. Few Cherokee recognized him as their
First Beloved Man
Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee. In the eighteenth ...
, and by 1753 both he and Tellico had become eclipsed by
Kanagatucko (Old Hop) and
Chota.
18th-century Cherokee people
18th-century Native Americans
Native American leaders
Year of death unknown
18th-century births
18th-century deaths
People of pre-statehood Tennessee
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