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There are two prevailing views about Cherokee origins. | ||
History of the Cherokee Indians and their legends and folklore. By Emmet Starr - Published 1921 This humble effort is attempted for the purpose of perpetuating some of the facts relative to the Cherokee tribe, that might otherwise be lost. The object has been to make it as near a personal history and biography of as many Cherokees as possible. Without the assistance of the magnanimous, wholesoul membership of the nation, the work would not have been possible and for that reason I wish to thank each and every member, for their hearty collaboration and express my regret that the work has not the merit with which many others might have invested it. Emmet Starr.
Claremore, Okla.December 12, 1921. | ||
Two years later President Martin Van Buren ordered 7,000 Federal troops and state militia under General Winfield Scott into Cherokee lands to evict the tribe. Over 16,000 Cherokee were forcibly relocated westward to Indian Territory in 1838-1839, a migration known as the Trail of Tears or in Cherokee Nvna Daula Tsvyi (Cherokee: The Trail Where They Cried), although it is described by another word Tlo-va-sa (Cherokee: The Removal). Marched over 800 miles, across Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, as many as 4,000 died of disease, exposure and starvation. As some Cherokees were slaveholders, they took enslaved African-Americans with them west of the Mississippi. Intermarried European-Americans and missionaries also walked the Trail of Tears. John Ross preserved a vestige of independence by negotiating for the Cherokee to conduct their own removal under U.S. supervision. In keeping with the 'blood law' that prescribed the death penalty for Cherokee who sold lands, his son arranged the murder of the leaders of the "Treaty Party". On June 22, 1839, Major Ridge, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot were assassinated by a party of twenty-five Ross supporters that included Daniel Colston, John Vann, Archibald, James and Joseph Spear. Elias Boudinot's brother Stand Watie fought off the attempt on his life that day and escaped to Arkansas. |
1819 Treaty | Treaty of New Echota |
Treaty of 1866 | |
Cherokee Nation Site | Dawes Roll at Archive.gov |
Dawes Roll at Accessgenealogy | |
Oklahoma Cherokee Ancestry Mail List | North Carolina Cherokee Mail List |
Cherokee Freedmen Mail List | Cherokee History and Culture Mail List |
Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead | Ned Christie |
Sequoyah | |
In the 1880's the Cherokee Outlet of Indian Territory was leased from the Cherokee Nation by a group of white cattlemen. The group was known as the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association. While only peripherally of interest to Native American researchers it is a part of Cherokee history. There is material related to the 1880's Cherokee National Council on the site. | |
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