MooxEY] FIRST KAILKOAU^— LITKKAKY REVIVAL ]S7(t 151 



iind ho died, as he had lived for nearly forty years, the otlieially reeoir- 

 nized ehief of the Nation, ^^'itil re])eated opportiuiiti<'s to eiirieh 

 himself at the expense of his tribe, he died a poor man. Mis l)ody 

 was brought baek and interred in the tei'ritory of tln^ Nation. In 

 remembrance of the great ehief one of the nine districts of the (.'hei-o- 

 kee Nation has been called by his Indian name, Cooweescoowee (-iti). 



Under the provisions of the late treaty the Delawares in Kansas, to 

 the number of 985, removed to Indian teri-itory in IstiT and became 

 incorporated as citizens of the Cherokee Nation. 'I'hey were followed 

 in 1870 bj' the Shawano, chiefly also from Kansas, to the miml)ei- of 

 770.' These immigrants settled chiefly along- the Verdigris, in the 

 northwestern pai't of the Nation. Under the same treaty the Osage, 

 Kaw. Pawnee, Ponca, Oto and Missouri, and Tonkawa were aft(>r\vard 

 settled on the western extension known then as the Cherokee striji. 

 The captive Nez Perces of Joseph's band were also temporarily located 

 there, but have since been removed to the states of Washington and 

 Idaho. 



In 1870 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway, a branch of the 

 Union Pacific system, was constructed through the lands of the C'hei'o- 

 kee Nation under an agi-eement ratifled l)y the (Tovermneut, it being 

 the first railroad to enter that country." Several othei's iiave since 

 l)een constructed or projected. 



The same A'ear saw a Cherokee literary I'evivai. 'Ilic publication of 

 the Advocate^ which had been suspended since some 3'ears before the 

 war. was resumed, and by authority of the Nation .lohn B. Jones 

 began the preparation of a seri(>s of sclioolbooks in the Cherokee 

 language and alphabet for the benefit of those children w liu knew no 

 English.' 



In the spring of issl ;i delegation fioui tli(> Cliei'oke(> .Nation \ isitcd 

 the East Cherokee still remaining in the mountains of North CJaioiina 

 and extended to them a cordial and urgent invitation to remove and 

 incorporate upon equal terms with the Cherokee Nation in the Indian 

 territory. In consequpnce several parties of East Cherokee. nunil)er- 

 ing in all 161 persons, removed during the year to th(> west(>rn Nation, 

 the expense being paid l>y the Federal govermuent. Others afterwards 

 applied for assistance to remove, but as no further appro[)riati<)n was 

 made for the purpose nothing more was done.' In 18S;> the East 

 Cherokee l)rought suit for a proportionate division of the Ciierokee 

 funds and other intei'ests under previous treaties.' but their riaini was 



• Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Uep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 35(i-3.TS. IXSS; Constitulicm and 

 Law.s of the Cherokee Nation, pp. 277-iS-l: St. Louis, IST.'j. 



2 Royce, op. cit., p. 367. 



^Foster, Sequoyah, pp. 147, 148,1885; Pillinj;, IriKiuniun liil>li<)Kraphy, IJvSS, articles" Ciierokee .\ilvo- 

 ente" and ".Tolin B. Jones." Theschoolbook .series seems to have ended with the arithnietie— emise, 

 a.s the Cherokee national superintendent of schools e.xjilained to the author. '■ loo much white man." 



< Commissioner H. Price, Report of Indian Commissioner, j). l.w, issi.and p. l.\x, ls.*<*J; see also p. 175. 



^Report 01 Indian Commissioner, i>. l,\v, lss:i. 



