Black Fox (c. 1746-1811) was a principal chief of the Cherokee who lived near Fox's Creek west of Decatur and east of Courtland. Listed as a lieutenant of Chief Dragging Canoe from 1788 to 1790, he signed the Holston Treaty on July 2, 1791, though not the stipulation of February 7, 1792, and delivered the funeral oration for Dragging Canoe, his brother-in-law. Black Fox was chief of the lower town of Ustanali and became principal chief of the Cherokee after the death of Little Turkey in 1802. As principal chief, he signed the October 20, 1803, agreement opening a road through the Cherokee Nation and, under the treaty of Jan. 7, 1806, by which the Cherokee ceded nearly 7,000 square miles of land in Tennessee and Alabama, received a life annuity of $100. During the rebellion of 1806-1810 he sided with Chief Doublehead and was deposed, with Pathkiller taking his place, but after signing an April 18, 1810, act of the Cherokee Nation abolishing clan revenge, he was reinstated as principal chief in a compromise between regional Cherokee factions. He last received his $100 stipend by proxy on July 11, 1810, when agent Return J. Meigs referred to him as "Black Fox Cherokee King." Younger chiefs later forged his name to certain treaties and acts. He died in 1811 and was buried in an ancient tomb on the boundary between Cherokee and Creek lands in Blount Co., Ala. His name was later carried by another Black Fox who signed the treaty of 1828 and emigrated west, while some descendants who remained in the East apparently shortened the name to Black.