John Ross – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png John Ross – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 John Ross vs. the 1835 Treaty of New Echota (from “Well, OK Then…”) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/john-ross-vs-treaty-new-echota-1835/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:12:09 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/john-ross-vs-treaty-new-echota-1835/ 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.

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