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The Bowl (Cherokee chief)
Cherokee chief (ca.1756-1839)
The Bowl (also Chief Bowls); John Watts Bowles (Cherokee: Di'wali) (ca.
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1756 – July 16, 1839) was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars, served as a Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation–West, and was a leader of the Texas Cherokees (Tshalagiyi nvdagi).
Early life
Di'wali was born around 1756 in Little Hiwassee, a Cherokee town in current-day North Carolina near Tomotla.[1] His mother was mixed blood Cherokee, Ghigoneli Boles, and his father was a Scottish trader John Watts.[citation needed] Emmet Starr, an early historian of the Cherokee, describes Bowles as "being decidedly Gaelic in appearance, having light eyes, red hair, and somewhat freckled."[2] At the age of 11, when his maternal Grandfather John Knight Boles was murdered, he tracked down the men and killed them.
In tradition of Indian naming patterns he took the name of Boles b
