Cunne Shote
(active 1762), Cherokee chiefSitter in 1 portrait
Succeeding his uncle, Kanagatucko ('Old Hop'), Cunne Shote ('Standing Turkey') was a Cherokee warrior and Chief of the Cherokee tribe from 1760. Following the imprisonment and subsequent execution of several Cherokee leaders at Fort Prince George, the original site of which is now under the man-made reservoir of Lake Keowee in South Carolina, Shote fought back by bravely leading attacks on the British colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. The Anglo-Cherokee War lasted until 1761. When hostilities abated, he was amongst three Cherokee leaders to accompany Virginian-born Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, a colonial Anglo-American officer, to London in 1762. The trip was to reaffirm a peace treaty between the Cherokee and the British Crown, ending three years of wars.
by James Macardell, printed for Robert Sayer, after Francis Parsons
mezzotint, 1762 or after
NPG D2240
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