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1806-1871 - Watie was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was a member of the group that signed the Treaty of New Echota. Members of what would later become known as the National Party attempted to execute Stand Watie, his brother Elias Boudinot, Major Ridge, and John Ridge along with several other Treaty Party men and, of the men upon whom attempts were actually made on 22 June 1839, only Stand Watie managed to escape alive with an early warning of what was happening. He spent the rest of his life with body guards. The executions were legal under Cherokee law; which allowed for the execution of any persons who ceded Cherokee lands. Land was held in common.
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