Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies. James Mooney

221. Report of Commissioners Jackson and Merriwether to Secretary of War, October 4, 1816.

222. January 7, 1828.

223. February 25, 1828.

224. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.

225. Confidential message of President Jefferson to Congress, January 18, 1803.

226. The letter of President Jefferson authorizing a delegation of Cherokees to visit the Arkansas and White River country was dated January 9, 1809, and will be found in the American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. II, p. 125, as well as among the records of the Indian Office.

227. January 9, 1817.

228. Letter of Secretary of War to General Jackson, May 14, 1817.

229. In a letter to Return J. Meigs, under date of September 18, 1816, the Secretary of War says that "the difficulties which have arisen between the Cherokees and the Osages, on the north of the Arkansas, and with the Quapaws, on the south, cannot be finally settled until the line of the cession shall be run and the rights of the Quapaws shall be ascertained. Commissioners appointed by the President are now sitting at Saint Louis for the adjustment of those differences; but should the line of the Osage treaty prove that they are settled upon the Osage lands, nothing can be done for the Cherokees. It is known to you and to that nation that the condition upon which the emigration was permitted by the President was that a cession of Cherokee lands should be made equal to the proportion which the emigrants should bear to the whole nation. This condition has never been complied with on the part of the nation, and of course all obligation on the part of the United States to secure the emigrants in their new possessions has ceased. When the subject was mentioned to the Cherokee deputation last winter, so far were they from acknowledging its force, that they declared the emigrants should be compelled to return."

230. May 14, 1817.

231. On the 17th of May, 1817, these commissioners were advised that the lands proposed to be given the Cherokees on the west of the Mississippi River, in exchange for those then occupied by them, were the lands on the Arkansas and immediately adjoining the Osage boundary line.

232. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.

233. These tracts are designated on the accompanying map as Nos. 23 and 24.

234. These tracts are designated on the accompanying map as Nos. 25 and 26.

235. August 1, 1817, the Secretary of War advised the governor of North Carolina that a treaty with the Cherokees had been concluded, by which the Indian claim was relinquished to a tract of country including the whole of the land claimed by them in North Carolina.

236. This memorial bore date of July 2, 1817.

237. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.

238. Letter of Secretary of War to Treaty Commissioners August 1, 1817.

239. Letters of Secretary of War to General Jackson and Colonel Meigs, August 9, 1817.

240. Letter of Governor McMinn to Secretary of War, November 29, 1818, and subsequent correspondence during 1819. Governor McMinn's letter of November 29, 1818, states that 718 families had enrolled for emigration since December 20, 1817, and 146 families had taken reservations, which made in all, including those who had already emigrated, about one-half of the Cherokee Nation as committed to the support of the policy involved in the treaty of 1817.

      February 17, 1819, a Cherokee delegation advised the Secretary of War that, while Governor McMinn's enrollment showed the number of Cherokees who had removed or enrolled to go prior to November 15, 1818, to be 5,291, by their calculation the number did not exceed 3,500, and that they estimated the number of Cherokees remaining east of the Mississippi at about 12,544.

241. The instructions of the Amoha council to the delegation of six bear date of Fortville, Cherokee Nation, September 19, 1817.

242. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 195.

243. May 8, 1818.

244. Secretary of War to Reuben Lewis, United States Indian agent, May 16, 1818.

245. May 16 to 24, inclusive.

246. July 22.

247. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 156.

248. Letter of Secretary of War to Capt. William Bradford, September 9, 1818.

249. Secretary of War to Agent Lewis, July 22, 1819.

250. Field notes and diagram on file in Indian Office.

251. October 6, 1818.

252. July 29, 1818.

253. November 13, 1818.

254. December 29, 1818.

255. November 29, 1818.

256. December 19, 1818.

257. February, 1819.

258.