sentences:  Dr. Kenneth Tankersley of the University of Cincinnati reports that Chief Red Bird ("Dotsuwa", literally "Cardinal") spent considerable time hunting and trapping in the vicinity of two rock shelters on opposite banks of the river.In 1796 or early 1797, he and his Cherokee friend Will Emory were brutally murdered for their furs by two white men near the Red Bird River Petroglyphs on the east bank.They are thought to have been buried in the Red Bird River Shelter Petroglyphs site on the west bank.