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The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma—came together at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., for the installation of the Treaty of New Echota in the ...
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Thinking about the Indian Removal Act, at the National Archives Museum and National Museum of the American Indian
The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the ... against ratification of the Treaty of New Echota, ceding Cherokee lands to the United States ...
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Where They Cried
A historic trail marks the paths of thousands of Native Americans who endured a forced march in ... a federal delegation met a rogue faction of Cherokees at their capital in New Echota, Georgia, and ...
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Cherokee letter protesting the Treaty of New Echota
Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent ...