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Treaty with the Cherokee (1835) [pdf] (si.edu)
1 point by divbzero on Nov 18, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Renewed efforts to seat a Cherokee Nation delegate to Congress [1] are based on the following part of the treaty:

ARTICLE 7. The Cherokee nation having already made great progress in civilization and deeming it important that every proper and laudable inducement should be offered to their people to improve their condition as well as to guard and secure in the most effectual manner the rights guarantied to them in this treaty, and with a view to illustrate the liberal and enlarged policy of the Government of the United States towards the Indians in their removal beyond the territorial limits of the States, it is stipulated that they shall be entitled to a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States whenever Congress shall make provision for the same.

[1]: https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/house-rules-committee-h...




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