The Cherokee Nation of Indians. (1887 N 05 / 1883-1884 (pages 121-378))Royce, Charles C.
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The Cherokee Nation of Indians. (1887 N 05 / 1883-1884 (pages 121-378))
Royce, Charles C.
Cherokee Indians -- Government relations; Cherokee Indians -- Treaties
2. The Cherokees relinquish to the United States all claim to all land
ceded or claimed to have been ceded to them by treaty of May 6, 1828,
not embraced within the limits fixed in this present supplementary
treaty.
3. The United States agree to cancel, at the request of the Cherokees,
the sixth article of the treaty of May 6, 1828.
4. The United States agree to furnish the Cherokees, during the
pleasure of the President, four blacksmith's shops, one wagon-maker's
shop, one wheelwright's shop, and necessary tools, implements, and
material for the same; also four blacksmiths, one wagon-maker, and one
wheelwright; also eight patent railway corn-mills, in lieu of those
agreed to be furnished by article 4 of the treaty of May 6, 1828.
5. These articles are supplementary to the treaty of May 6, 1828.
6. One mile square to be set apart for the accommodation of the
Cherokee Agency, to be selected jointly by the Cherokee Nation and
United States agent.
7. This treaty to be obligatory after ratification by the President and
Senate.
HISTORICAL DATA.
CONFLICTING LAND CLAIMS OF CREEKS AND CHEROKEES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
The treaty of January 24, 1826,[336] with the Creek Indians had
provided for the removal of that tribe west of the Mississippi. In
accordance with its provisions, a delegation consisting of five
representative men of the tribe proceeded to the western country and
selected the territory designed for their future occupancy. The year
following this selection a party of Creeks removed to and settled
thereon. The country thus selected and occupied lay along and between
the Verdigris, Arkansas, and Canadian Rivers.[337]
Subsequently, on the 6th day of May, 1828,[338] a treaty was concluded
with the Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi, by the terms of which
they ceded all their lands within the present limits of Arkansas and
accepted a tract of 7,000,000 acres within the present limits of Indian
Territory, in addition to a perpetual outlet extending as far west as
the western limits of the United States at that time, being the one
hundredth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich.
This new assignment of territory to the Cherokees, it was soon found,
included a considerable portion of the lands selected by and already in
the possession of the Creeks.
The discovery of this fact produced much excitement and ill feeling
in the minds of the people of both tribes, and led to many acts of
injustice and violence during the course of several years.
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