Chapter XV: Front Matter (15)

[Footnote 602: April 29, 1874. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVIII, p. 41.]

[Footnote 603: February 28, 1877. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 265.]

[Footnote 604: See treaty of April 27, 1868. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 727.]

[Footnote 605: See report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of Interior, March 1, 1867, transmitting the agreement.]

[Footnote 606: October 9, 1867.]

[Footnote 607: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 727.]

[Footnote 608: See Indian Office records.]

[Footnote 609: See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs for 1870, p. 376.]

[Footnote 610: See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs for 1871, p. 671.]

[Footnote 611: August 11, 1871.]

[Footnote 612: 5,019.91 acres.]

[Footnote 613: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 222.]

[Footnote 614: August 27, 1868.]

[Footnote 615: December 23, 1868.]

[Footnote 616: July 6, 1867.]

[Footnote 617: March 3, 1868.]

[Footnote 618: February 26, 1868.]

[Footnote 619: See document "Fortieth Congress, second session--confidential--Executive 3P."]

[Footnote 620: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 311.]

[Footnote 621: Ibid., p. 414.]

[Footnote 622: Ibid., p. 478.]

[Footnote 623: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 871.]

[Footnote 624: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 446.]

[Footnote 625: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 283.]

[Footnote 626: Indian Office records.]

[Footnote 627: December 6, 1867.]

[Footnote 628: July 31, 1868.]

[Footnote 629: Letter of Cherokee delegation to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, April 23, 1868.]

[Footnote 630: Treaty of November 7, 1825, in United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 284.]

[Footnote 631: Treaty of May 10, 1854, in United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 1053.]

[Footnote 632: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 53.]

[Footnote 633: August 14, 1871.]

[Footnote 634: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV, p. 687.]

[Footnote 635: April 10, 1868.]

[Footnote 636: May 27, 1868.]

[Footnote 637: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 362.]

[Footnote 638: Letter of Cherokee delegation to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, February 15, 1871.]

[Footnote 639: May 27, 1871.]

[Footnote 640: Letter of Cherokee delegation to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, June 10, 1871.]

[Footnote 641: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 228.]

[Footnote 642: April 8, 1872.]

[Footnote 643: See surveyors' plats on file in Indian Office.]

[Footnote 644: See report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of the Interior, March 6, 1875.]

[Footnote 645: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 28.]

[Footnote 646: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 190.]

[Footnote 647: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV, p. 717.]

[Footnote 648: Treaty of October 21, 1867, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 581.]

[Footnote 649: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 593.]

[Footnote 650: August 10, 1869.]

[Footnote 651: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 190.]

[Footnote 652: October 24, 1872.]

[Footnote 653: November 18, 1873.]

[Footnote 654: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 120.]

[Footnote 655: January 30, 1877.]

[Footnote 656: September 8, 1877.]

[Footnote 657: Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the President, June 21, 1879.]

[Footnote 658: June 23, 1879.]

[Footnote 659: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 187.]

[Footnote 660: January 27, 1877.]

[Footnote 661: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1877, pp. 21-23.]

[Footnote 662: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1878, p. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 663: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XXI, p. 380.]

[Footnote 664: Act of May 27, 1878, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XX, p. 63.]

[Footnote 665: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1879, p. xl.]

[Footnote 666: Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1881, p. lxiii. The removal was accomplished between October 5 and October 23.]

[Footnote 667: Deeds were executed June 14, 1883, by the Cherokee Nation to the United States in trust for each of the tribes located upon Cherokee country west of 96°, such deeds being in each case for the quantity of land comprised within the tracts respectively selected by or for them for their future use and occupation. See Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for 1883, p. lii.]

[Footnote 668: February 27, 1871.]

[Footnote 669: April 14, 1871.]

[Footnote 670: May 4, 1871.]

[Footnote 671: The survey was approved by the commissioners December 11, 1871.]

[Footnote 672: Acts of July 25, 26, and 27, 1866.]

[Footnote 673: May 13, 1870.]

[Footnote 674: May 21, 1870.]

[Footnote 675: May 23, 1870.]

[Footnote 676: June 13, 1870.]

[Footnote 677: The persons affected by this action were comprised within four classes, viz:

1. White persons who had married into the tribe.

2. Persons with an admixture of Indian blood, through either father or mother.

3. Adopted persons.

4. Persons of African descent who claimed rights under the treaty of 1866.]

[Footnote 678: February 15, 1876.]

[Footnote 679: October ----, 1876.]

[Footnote 680: April 4, 1879.]

[Footnote 681: December 12, 1879.]

[Footnote 682: A bill to this effect was introduced into the Senate by Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, June 3, 1879, and reported from the Committee on Indian Affairs, with amendments, June 4, 1880, by Senator Williams, of Kentucky.]

[Footnote 683: December 6, 1879.]

[Footnote 684: October 16, 1880.]

[Footnote 685: November 23, 1880.]

[Footnote 686: January 26, 1882.]

[Footnote 687: May 9, 1883.]

[Footnote 688: William Bartram, who traveled through their country in 1776, says (Travels in North America, p. 483): "The Cherokees in their dispositions and manners are grave and steady, dignified and circumspect in their deportment; rather slow and reserved in conversation, yet frank, cheerful, and humane; tenacious of the liberties and natural rights of man; secret, deliberate, and determined in their councils; honest, just, and liberal, and always ready to sacrifice every pleasure and gratification, even their blood and life itself, to defend their territory and maintain their rights."]

[Footnote 689: Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under date of March 29, 1824, in a communication addressed to the President to be laid before the United States Senate, alludes to the provision contained in the treaty of 1791 and says: "In conformity to the provisions of this article the various utensils of husbandry have been abundantly and constantly distributed to the Cherokee Nation, which has resulted in creating a taste for farming and the comforts of civilized life."]

[Footnote 690: May 30, 1820.]

[Footnote 691: Letter of Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War, March 29, 1824. In this letter Mr. Calhoun says: "Certain benevolent societies in the year 1816 applied for permission to make establishments among the Cherokees and other southern tribes, for the purpose of educating and instructing them in the arts of civilized life. Their application was favorably received. The experiment proved so favorable, that Congress, by act of March 3, 1819, appropriated $10,000 annually as a civilization fund, which has been applied in such a manner as very considerably to increase the extent and usefulness of the efforts of benevolent individuals and to advance the work of Indian civilization."]

[Footnote 692: The eight districts into which the nation was at this time divided were, Chickamauga, Chatooga, Coosawatee, Amohee, Hickory Log, Etowah, Taquoe, and Aquohee.]

[Footnote 693: The census of the nation east of the Mississippi, taken in 1835, exhibited the following facts:

+-----------------+----------+-------+------------+---------+
| | | | Whites | |
| |Cherokees.|Slaves.|intermarried| Total. |
| | | | with | |
| | | | Cherokees. | |
+-----------------+----------+-------+------------+---------+
|In Georgia | 8,946| 776| 68| 9,790|
|In North Carolina| 3,644| 37| 22| 3,703|
|In Tennessee | 2,528| 480| 79| 3,087|
|In Alabama | 1,424| 299| 32| 1,755|
+-----------------+----------+-------+------------+---------+
| Aggregate | 16,542| 1,592| 201| 18,335|
+-----------------+----------+-------+------------+---------+
]

[Footnote 694: In addition there was ceded by this treaty for the location of other Indian tribes all the Cherokee domain in Indian Territory lying west of 96°, containing by actual survey 8,144,772.35 acres or 12,726 square miles.]

[Footnote 695: And a fractional square mile comprising 374 acres.]

INDEX.

A.

Adair, Andrew, murder of 319
Adair, James, on Cherokee boundaries 141
Adair, John Lynch, commissioner for Cherokee boundary 365
Adair, Washington, murder of 319
Adams, Captain, and acknowledged 130
Adams, John Quincy, on relations of Georgia and Cherokee 239
Alabama, alleges error in surrey of Cherokee boundary 211
Allegan or Allegwi identical with Cherokee 137
American Emigrant Company negotiates for neutral lands 349
Armstrong, F. W., commissioner to extinguish Cherokee title 241
Armstrong, R. H., aid acknowledged 130
Armstrong, William, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 298, 305
plan of, for adjusting Cherokee differences 304
Ashley, James M., commissioner for Cherokee boundary 365

B.

Barbour, James, authorized to treat with Cherokee 229
Barnett, William, Cherokee boundary commissioner 207, 208
Bartram, William, remarks on the Cherokee 135, 372
list of Cherokee towns 143
Batt, Capt. Henry, exploring party under 138
Berkeley, William, exploring expedition by 138
Blair, James, Georgia commissioner in treating with Cherokee 236
Blount, William, protest against Hopewell treaty 155
treats with Cherokee 158
instructed to treat with Cherokee 162
Boudinot, E. C., address on condition of Cherokee 285
murder of 293
compensation to heirs of 299
on Cherokee treaty of April 27, 1868 344
Bridges, J. S., commissioner to appraise Cherokee property 258
Brodie, Paul, aid acknowledged 130
Brown, David, report on Cherokee, with census by 240
Brown, Jacob, purchase from Cherokee 147
Browning, O. H., annuls sale of Cherokee neutral land by Secretary
Harlan 349
Burke, Edmund, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 298, 303
Butler, P. M., Cherokee agent 297
commissioner to examine Cherokee feuds 301
Butler, Thomas, commissioner for Cherokee treaty 174