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Description and Holding Information
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1835-12-29, Cherokee Tribe-U.S.
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Articles of a Treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Tribe of Indians, December 29, 1835, 7 Stat. 478-489. ( Articles of a Treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Tribe of Indians. The Cherokees ceded all their land east of the Mississippi River. The treaty established the terms under which the entire Cherokee Nation ceded its territory in the southeast and agreed to move west to the Indian Territory. Although the treaty was not approved by the Cherokee National Council it was amended and ratified by the U.S. Senate in March 1836, and became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears. The treaty was concluded at New Echota in the State of Georgia on December 29, 1835.)
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Title:
Articles of a treaty concluded at New Echota in the state of Georgia on the 29th day of Decr. 1835 / by General William Carroll and John F. Schermerhorn commissioners on the part of the United States and the chiefs head men and people of the Cherokee tribe of Indians.
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OCLC Number:
1285722897
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