This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...it being the anxious desire of the Government of the United States to secure to the Cherokee nation of Indians... a permanent 2 home, and which shall, under the most solemn guarantees of the United States, be, and remain, theirs forever--a home that shall never, in all future time, be embarrassed by having extended ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...it being the anxious desire of the Government of the United States to secure to the Cherokee nation of Indians... a permanent 2 home, and which shall, under the most solemn guarantees of the United States, be, and remain, theirs forever--a home that shall never, in all future time, be embarrassed by having extended around it the lines, or placed over it the jurisdiction of a Territory or State, nor be pressed upon by the extension, in any way, of any of the limits of any existing Territory or State;... the parties hereto do hereby conclude the following articles, viz.: "Article 2. The United States agree to possess the Cherokees, and to guarantee it to them forever, and that guarantee is hereby solemnly pledged, of seven millions of acres of land, to be bounded as 1 Dated May 6, 1828. 1 "Permanent" is emphasized in official government texts. J sa--Two enva.ngs illustrating the alterscion in the shape of the ndage-coach betw'n 1815 and 1828, as the vehicle approached its final form cased the "Ccncord Coach." The flattening of the top gave more room inisde, and, after railinIn were inrsased, permitted the cfficfaesng of.ggage on the roof. follows.... In addition to the seven millions of acres thus provided for, and bounded, the United States further guarantee to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet, West, and a free and unmolested use of all the country lying West of the Western boundary of the above described limits, and as far west as the sovereignty of the United States, and their right of soil extend." Those Cherokees who had removed to Arkansas in 1817 and 1819 thereupon gave up the Arkansas lands secured to them at that time and accepted the pledges and territory above recited,1 but there was then no general exodus of the...
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