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Why Did the Cherokee Warrior
Try to Kill Himself?

James Adair, a white trader among the Cherokee, recorded a powerful account of the physical and mental anguish of a great warrior in 1738:

...he chose to die, that he might end his shame. When his relatives knew his desperate design, they watched him, and took away every sharp instrument. He fretted and said the worse things their language could express, and showed all the symptoms of a desperate person forced to live and see his ignominy; he then darted himself against the wall, with all his remaining vigor.

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