| LC control no. | n 82214557 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ross, John, 1790-1866 |
| Variant(s) | Ross, John, Cherokee Chief, 1790-1866 Coweescoowe, 1790-1866 Kooweskowe, 1790-1866 Tsan-usdí, 1790-1866 Little John, 1790-1866 Guwisguwi, 1790-1866 Cooweescoowee, 1790-1866 Mysterious Little White Bird, 1790-1866 Koo-wi-s-gu-wi, 1790-1866 |
| See also | Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. Principal Chief (1828-1866 : Ross) |
| Associated country | Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma United States |
| Located | Oklahoma |
| Birth date | 1790-10-03 |
| Death date | 1866-08-01 |
| Place of birth | Tennessee |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Found in | Lloyd, L.L. If the Chief Vann House could speak, c1980: p. iii (principal chief of the Cherokees, John Ross) LC data base, 1/14/84 (hdg.: Ross, John, Cherokee Chief, 1790-1866) DAB, 1935 (Ross, John; Oct. 3, 1790-Aug. 1, 1866; Cherokee chief; b. near Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; s. David and Mary (McDonald) R.; his Indian name was Cooweescoowe or Kooweskowe; father was Scotch; mother was 1/4th Cherokee blood; became leader of Cherokee party opposed to westward removal; led his people to new home what is now Oklahoma; chosen chief of united Cherokee Nation, 1839; held this office until his death; m. Cherokee woman, Quatie (d. 1813); m. Mary Bryan Stapler of Wilmington, Del., a white woman, 1845) NUCMC data from Oklahoma Hist. Soc. for His Letters, 1829-1865 (John Ross, Chief of Eastern Cherokee) Handbook of Am. Indians, 1910 (Ross, John; his boyhood name of Tsan-usdí, 'Little John', was exchanged when he reached man's estate for that of Guwisguwi or Cooweescoowee) Wikipedia, October 16, 2021 (John Ross (Cherokee chief); John Ross [romanized Cherokee name: Guwisguwi] (October 3, 1790-August 1, 1866) (meaning in Cherokee: "Mysterious Little White Bird"); John Ross, Koo-wi-s-gu-wi); he made yet another trip to Washington, where he died on August 1, 1866) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)> |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 84191501 |
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