found: Lloyd, L.L. If the Chief Vann House could speak, c1980:p. iii (principal chief of the Cherokees, John Ross)
found: LC data base, 1/14/84(hdg.: Ross, John, Cherokee Chief, 1790-1866)
found: 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)
found: NUCMC data from Oklahoma Hist. Soc. for His Letters, 1829-1865(John Ross, Chief of Eastern Cherokee)
found: 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)
found: 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)