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Ned was a famous Cherokee Statesman (back in the days when Oklahoma wasn't part of the U.S. but a foreign land owned, ruled and administrated according to Cherokee Law), an actual senator and advisor to chief BushyHead of the Cherokee Nation.
Perhaps his most moving fiction adaptation (as fair an adaptation in fiction as can be imagined, the Cherokee Nation depiction is very interesting) is the "Zeke & Ned" novel by Larry McMurtry.
Said to have been an exceptional shot (shooting tree branches under the squirrels picking them up as they fell to save meat), this giant of a man (6'7''), after having been wrongfully accused of murdering a marshall, stood up, during what would be remembered as 'Ned Christie's war', in the fort that he built for his home, for 7 long years, against wave after wave of "law" posses bent on capturing him.
He lost an eye in the fights.
The authorities even resorted to bringing an actual war canon all the way through Cherokee Nation and up the mountain to blow him out (but they couldn't shoot it with accuracy) so that they had to dynamite the whole house to finally get him to try and make for an exit.
At which point, they did shoot him down.
He was found innocent of his charges in a 1918 review of the case.
He embodies the rightful, pure struggle of old ways (bravery, honor, self awareness and pride) against the blurred morals of new virtueless moneyminded invaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Christie
