Treaty Between the United States and the Western Cherokee Indians Signed at Washington, DC on May 6, 1828 (page 1, signature page).
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government
Series: Indian Treaties
File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 152: Western Cherokee - Washington, DC, May 6, 1828
Transcription:
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Articles of a Convention concluded at the City of
Washington this Sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, between James Barbour
Secretary of War, being specially authorized therefor by the
President of the United States, and the undersigned Chiefs
and head men of the Cherokee nation of Indians, west of
the Mississippi, they being duly authorized and empowered
by their Nation.
Whereas it being the anxious desire of the Government
of the United States to secure to the Cherokee Nation of Indians,
as well those now living within the limits of the Territory of
Arkansas, as those of their friends and Brothers who reside
in States east of the Mississippi, and who may wish to join
their Brothers of the West, [underlined] a permanent [/underlined home, and which
shall, under the most solemn guarantee 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; and
Whereas the present location of the Cherokees in Arkansas, being
unfavorable to their present repose, and tending, as the past
demonstrates, to their future degradation and misery; and
the Cherokees being anxious to avoid such consequences, and
yet not questioning their right to their lands in Arkansas,
as secured to them by Treaty, and resting also upon the
pledges given them by the President of the United States,
and the Secretary of War, of March 1818, and 8th October
1821, in regard to the outlet to the West, and as may be
seen on referring to the records of the War Department,
Still, being anxious to secure a permanent home, and
to free themselves, and their posterity from an embarrassing
connexion with the Territory of Arkansas, and guard
themselves from such connexions in future; and
whereas it being important, not to the Cherokees only,
but also to the Choctaws, and in regard also to the
question which may be agitated, in the future, respect
-ing the location of the latter, as well as the former,
within the limits of the Territory or States of Arkansas,
as the case may be, and their removal therefrom; and
to avoid the cost which may attend negotiations to rid
the Territory or State of Arkansas whenever it may
become a State, of either, or both of those Tribes, the
parties hereto, do hereby conclude the following articles:
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Article 11. This Treaty to be binding on the contracting
parties so soon as it is ratified by the President of the
United States, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate.
Done at the place, and on the
day of year above written. ~
[signed] James Barbour [SEAL]
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Black Fox, his x mark [SEAL]
Thomas Graves, his x mark [SEAL]
+ [signature in characters] Geo: Guess [SEAL]
+ [signature in characters] Thos. Maw [SEAL]
+ [signature in characters] Geo: Marvis [SEAL]
+ [signature in characters] John Looney [SEAL]
[signed] JJohn Rogers [SEAL]
[signed] JJ. W. Flawey [SEAL]
Counsel Men of Del.
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Witnesses. -
[signed] Thos. L. McKenney
[signed] James Rogers Interpreter
[signed] D. Kurtz
[signed] H. Miller
[signed] Thomas Murray
[signed] D. Brown Secy Ch. Delegation
[signed] Pierye Pierya,
[signed] E.W. Duval
U. S. Agt. &c.
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+ Written by the signers in their language, & in the characters
now in use among them, as discovered by Geo: Guess.
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