Big Tiger

Big Tiger was Principal Chief of the council of a dissident group of Cherokee who followed the teachings of Whitepath, a full-blood traditionalist leader and member of the Cherokee National Council who lived at Turnip Town, on the Large Ellijay.

Background

Influenced by the teachings of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, Whitepath began a rebellion against the acculturation then taking place in the Cherokee Nation, proposing the rejection of Christianity and the new Cherokee national constitution, and a return to the old tribal laws. The "rebellion" ended with the submission of Whitepath to the more progressive members of the Cherokee National Council.