Stand Watie as a colonel/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons In 1861, the Civil War erupted, deepening the division among the Cherokees. Some supported the Confederacy to protect their slave ...

Learning about dedicated Indian slaveholders such as Watie tells us that history is a lot more complicated than you’ve been told.

On June 23, 1865, 155 years ago, Stand Watie became the last major Confederate field commander to surrender to the Union, which took place at Doaksville, in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory ...

Isaac Stand Watie Degataga was a prominent Cherokee tribal leader who was elected chief during the Civil War and commissioned brigadier general in the Confederate army. Stand Watie was the last ...

Native Americans and the Civil War in Arkansas: Both Albert Pike and Stand Watie served prominent roles Albert Pike and Stand Watie served prominent roles in the Confederacy April 26, 2025 by ...

Stand Watie was named Degadoga, which means "he stands," when he was born on Dec. 12, 1806, near New Echota, Ga., the son of Oo-wa-tie, who was a full-blooded Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, who was ...

Stand Watie (December 12, 1806 - September 9, 1871) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was known as ...

Stand Watie — he was called that because his first name in Cherokee meant "stand firm" — had seen action in March 1862 at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, where his soldiers, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles ...

Stand Watie (1806-1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie, Tawkertawker, and Isaac S. Watie, was a leader of the Cherokee Nation.

A fountain memorializing confederate soldiers and Confederate Gen. Stand Watie was dedicated in 1913 by the Daughters of the Confederacy. A second monument honored Watie, who was last to surrender ...

Stand Watie, also known as Standhope Uwatie Degataga, was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the ...