THE BIRD BEINGS- OR THE FALSE GOVERNMENT

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When the original people of the Chickamaugans left the ancestral homelands they wandered

for a long time searching for the 'promised land'. When they tried to enter the lands that

were the promised ones, they were met by 'gatekeepers'- the Bird Beings. To enter these

lands they had to pass certain tests, which they did. Their 'passport' was a golden eagle

feather. It was to be carried by all their people as proof they had earned the right be on

these lands. When Dragging Canoe and others denounced the US Government part of it ws

based on the symbol the government had adopted- the bald eagle. To our people the bald

eagle is a false symbol of the right to be here. The ones before seeing this recognized

that the present government did not have permission from the Bird Beings to be here. Thus,

they denounced the US Government as a false one and resisted it to the end.