Smithsonian Magazine5 年
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The treaty, signed at New Echota, Georgia, in December 1835, established a deadline ...
Smithsonian Magazine7 年
The Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809—a treaty that led to war—goes on exhibit
This September, representatives of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi saw the treaty go on view at the National Museum of the American Indian. “It is an honor to come full circle to an article that ...
PBS1 年
Indian removal
They based this on United States policy; in former treaties, Indian nations had been declared sovereign so they would be legally capable of ceding their lands. Now the Cherokee hoped to use this ...