Motif
Alliance through gifts, arms, and promised plunder
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee ILLUSTRATIONS / MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE / I--INTRODUCTION / II--HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHEROKEE; lines 1871-1962 confidence: medium
British authorities provide goods, hatchets, guns, ammunition, and scalp bounties; a Cherokee talk to Cameron says Cherokee warriors are ready to attack Carolina and Georgia settlements, and royalists are directed to join them.
British authorities encourage Indigenous alliance through goods, weapons, ammunition, promises of plunder, and scalp bounties.
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