Cherokee

In the record

The United States made 20 treaties and agreements that name Cherokee as a party, from Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee, 1785 to Cherokee at Washington, DC (1868).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 32 cessions of land from Cherokee: about 45 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 25 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Cherokee in Oklahoma, ceded 1893 (area 489), about 7.9 million acres, ceded under Reconstruction Treaty with the Cherokee, 1866.

The atlas records 6 broken treaty promises involving Cherokee: Hopewell 1785 and Holston 1791: settler intrusion onto Cherokee land, Georgia ignores Worcester v. Georgia (1832): the federal government declines to enforce, Treaty of New Echota (1835) and the Trail of Tears (1838-39) and 3 more. 9 court cases turned on their rights: Fletcher v. Peck, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia and 6 more.

Today, Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.