The Cherokee Nation

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This volume, presents the succession of treaties between 1785 and 1868 that reduced the holdings of the Cherokee Nation east of the Mississippi and culminated in their removal to Indian territory. Each document is accompanied by a detailed description of its antecedent conditions, the negotiations that led up to it, and its consequences. The events described here ended more than a century ago, but the motives and actions of the participants and the effects of the compromises and decisions they made are sadly familiar. The story presented here needs to be understood by everyone concerned with the survival of diverse ways of life and the quality of the relationships among peoples.

The impersonal style of Royce's presentation enhances the poignancy of the Cherokee experience. Repeated declarations of peace and perpetual friendship contrast with repeated violations of treaties approved by Congress and the impotence of a people to defend their ancestral lands. The Cherokee "trail of broken treaties" has left us with a heritage of guilt and frustration that we have yet to overcome.

The Native American Library, in which this volume appears, has been initiated by the National Anthropological Archives of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, to publish original works by Indians and reprints selected by the tribes involved. Royce's work, which was included in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is republished at the request of the Governing Body of the Cherokee Nation. The original text is prefaced by an evaluation of Royce and his work by Richard Mack Bettis and contains several illustrations not included in the earlier edition.

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Introduction
1
Treaty of November 28 1785
5
Treaty of July 2 1791
30
Treaty of February 17 1792
41
Treaty of June 261794
43
Treaty of October 2 1798
46
Treaty of October 24 1804
55
Treaties of October 25 and 27 1805
61
Treaty of February 27 1819
91
Treaty of May 6 1828
101
Treaty of February 14 1833
121
Treaty of December 291835
125
Photo section
139
Treaty of August 6 1846
176
Treaty of July 19 1866
212
Treaty of April 27 1868
218

Treaty of January 7 1806
65
Treaty of September 11 1807
66
Treaties of March 22 1816
69
Treaty of September 14 1816
81
Treaty of July 8 1817
84
General Remarks
249
Biographical Notes
257
Maps
259
Index
265
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