Today in Chickamauga History - May 6
1817, May 6: Laws: The Cherokee Nation, & C. – Article 3rd – “The authority and claim of our common property shall cease with the person or persons who shall think proper to remove themselves without the limits of the Cherokee Nation”
1828, May 6: A delegation from the Cherokee Nation West (Chickamauga), including Sequoyah, travels to Washington City where they are pressured into signing the Treaty of Washington giving up their lands in Arkansas Territory for lands in Indian Territory that essentially became the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, after the property was taken from the CHICKAMAUGA NATION through genocide.
1828, May 6: 7 Stat 311 - Tribal Treaties Database – Handwritten Copy of Treaty – Transcription of Treaty - Hosted by Oklahoma State University, Partners: USDA, Department of Interior, Department of Defense -https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-western-cherokee-1828-0288
1828, May 6: 7 Stat 311 - All Signatories Are Lower Town Chickamauga -
Chief Black Fox – Died in 1811;
Thomas Graves not a Chickamauga Chief at this time, Signature on the Treaty is 4 syllables not 3;
George Guess – Sequoyah not a Chickamauga Chief;
Thomas Maw not a Chickamauga Chief – Paid by the United States to promote the Treaty to the Eastern Cherokee;
George Marvis not a Chickamauga Chief at this time – Claims to have been made Chief in 1830;
John Looney not a Chickamauga Chief at this time – Voted as the last “Western Cherokee” Chief in 1838 after John Jolly, who did not sign;
John Rogers Jr. not a Chickamauga Chief at this time, but became a Chief in 1839 and was deposed by John Ross in 1839.