Takatoka (Degadoga, Tatoka; c. 1755 – 1824) was the second Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation—West (1813–1817) established in the old Arkansaw Territory.
The Bowl had been a past Chickamauga leader who had led Takatoka and several hundred followers into 'the west' to escape the influence and constant frontier encroachment of the rapidly expanding United States.
[2][3] In summer 1822, Chief Takatoka merged his forces with the Cherokee outlaw, William Dutch, and joined him in raiding the Osage.
[4] Later that same summer, Takatoka proposed a plan to Shawnee headman, John Lewis, to create a Native American confederacy of tribes in Arkansas and the southern Missouri Territory area.
He enlisted support for his plan from Lewis, who brought the idea to Indian Agents William Clark and Pierre Menard.