John Ross vs. the 1835 Treaty of New Echota (from “Well, OK Then…”)

Blue Cereal — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:12:09 +0000

Chief John Ross was a “mixed-blood” Cherokee who nevertheless became the best-known and arguably the most effective tribal leader of his generation. His supporters tended to lean traditional – they were conservative, and old-school – wanting little or no contact with whites and uninterested in their version of “progress.”

Because he would not agree to voluntary removal, the U.S. found others in the tribe who would. They plied them with land and money and the argument that this was going to happen one way or the other – so they might as well make it as painless as possible. The signers of the Treaty of New Echota (1835) violated the most sacred of Cherokee laws while lacking the status to even speak for the tribe to begin with.

This Land Is Whose Land? (From “Well, OK Then…”)

Blue Cereal — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:33:33 +0000

The first European nation to lay claim to what is now Oklahoma was Spain, via wanderings sent forth from New Spain – what today is Mexico. Other than periodic expeditions hoping perhaps there was more to the Great Plains than met the eye, the Spanish weren’t particularly enamored with the northeastern-most reaches of their claims in … Continue reading

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John Ross vs. the 1835 Treaty of New Echota (from “Well, OK Then…”)

This Land Is Whose Land? (From “Well, OK Then…”)