Nanyehi fought alongside her husband, reportedly chewing his lead bullets before he loaded them to make them more deadly. She was already married to a man named Tsu-la (“King Fisher”) and the mother of two children when she joined her husband on a Cherokee campaign against the Creek Nation. Nanyehi rose to power in the Cherokee Nation when she was 17 years old. His beliefs had a profound impact on his niece. He believed that the best chance for Cherokee survival was for the two peoples to learn to peacefully co-exist. Throughout Nanyehi’s childhood, Attakullakulla pursued a path of cooperation with the British colonists who continually encroached on his people’s land. Through her mother, Nanyehi was the niece of Attakullakulla, an important chief in the Cherokee Nation.
Cherokee society is matrilineal, so Nanyehi was born into her mother’s clan, the Wolf Clan. Nanyehi (“She who walks among the spirits”) was born in 1738 in the Cherokee town of Chota, in what is now eastern Tennessee.
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