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delegation of 1S16 the six sig-iiers are iiu'iitioncd as Colonel |.l()hn| 

 Lowrcy, ^lujorl.rohnj \\'alkcr. Major liidnc Captain |Kieliar(l| Taylnr, 

 Atljutunt [.lohnj Ross, and Kuiinesee (Tsi'yu-gunsi'ni. Clieueunseiie) and 

 are deserihed as men ot eidtivation, nearly all of whom had serv'ed as 

 odieers of the Cherokee forces with Jackson and distinguished themselves 

 as well by their bravery as by their attai'hnient to the I'nited States.^ 

 Among the East Cherokee in Carolina the only name still remembered 

 is that of their old chief, .(unaluska (Tsunii'iaiuin'ski). who said after- 

 ward: ■■ If I had known that .Jackson would drive us from our homes 

 I would have killed him that day at the Horseshoe." 



The Cherokee returned to their homes to find them despoiled and 

 ravaged in their absence by disoi'derly white troops. Two years after- 

 ward, l)y treaty at Washington, the Government agreed to reimburse 

 them for the damage. Interested parties denied that they had sutfei'ed 

 any damage or rendered any services, to which their agent indignantly 

 replied: "It may he answered that thousands witnessed both; that iti 

 nearly all the battles with the Creeks the Cherokees rendered th(> most 

 efficient service, and at the expense of the lives of many line mcTi, 

 whose wives- and children and brothers and sisters are mourning their 

 fall."- 



In the spring of ISlti a delegation of seven principal men, accom- 

 panied by Agent Meigs, visited Washington, and the result was the 

 negotiation of two treaties at that place on the same date, March '22, 

 ISltj. By the first of these the Cherokee ceded for live thousand dollars 

 their last remaining territory in South Carolina, a small strip in the 

 extreme northwestern corner, adjoining Chattooga river. By the sec- 

 ond tri^aty a boundary was established between the lands claimed by the 

 Cherokee and Creeks in northern Alabama. This action was made 

 necessary in order to determine the boundaries of the great tract 

 which the Creeks had been compelled to surrender in punishment for 

 their late uprising. The line was run from a point on Little Bear 

 creek in northwestern Alabama direct to the Ten islands of the 

 Coosa at old Fort Strother, southeast of the present Asheville. Gen- 

 eral .lackson protested strongly against this line, on the ground that 

 all the territory south of Tennessee river and west of the Coosa 

 belonged to the Creeks and was a part of their cession. The Chicka- 

 saw also protested against considering this tract as Cherokee terri- 

 tory. The treaty also granted free and unrestricted road ])rivileges 

 throughout the Cherokee country, this concession being the result of 

 years of persistent eflort on the part of the Government; and an 

 appropriation of twenty -five thousand five hundred dollars was made 



1 Dmku, Iniiians, p. 401, 1880. 



•Indian Treaties, p. 187, 1837; Meigs' letter to Secretary of War, August I'J, l.sUi, in American Slnte 

 Papers: Indian Affairs, ii, pp. 113, 114, 1834. 



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