M.HiNEv] INVITATION FROM WESTERN HANI) ISSI 175 



the ;ii;'oiK'V \v;is (liscoiitiiiiU'd and the cilucatioiial iiiU> rests of the hand 

 turned over to tlu> state sehool .superintondeut.' 



In the ni(>antinie Ka'lalnV had been succee(U>d as chief t)y Lloyd R. 

 Welch (Da'.si'i>'iya'>;i). an educated mixed-))lood of C'heowa. who served 

 about live years, dyino^ shortly after his reelection to a .second term 

 (48). He niad(> a jjood record by his work in reconciliu";' the \arious 

 faetion.s which had spruni;- up after the withdrawal of the jjuidinii- inllu- 

 ence of Thomas, and in defeating the intrigues of fraudulent white 

 claimants and misciiief makers. Shortly l)efore his death the (xoverii- 

 ment, through Special Agent -lohn A. Silibuld. recognized liis authority 

 as principal chief, together with the constitution winch had been 

 adopted by the l)and under liis auspices in 1875. N. J. Smith (Tsa'- 

 ladihi'). who had previously served as clerk of the council, was electtnl 

 to his unexpired term and continued to serve until the fall of 18^*0.~ 



AVe tind no further official notice of the East C'hei-okee until 1881, 

 when Comini.ssioner Price reported that they were still without agent 

 or superintendent, and that so far as the Indian Office was concerned 

 their atiairs were in an anomalous and unsatisfactoi'v condition. \vliil(> 

 factional feuds were adding to the difficulties and retarding the i)rog- 

 ress of the band. In the spring of that year a visiting delegation from 

 the Cherokee Nation west had extended to them an urgent invitation 

 to remove to Indian Territory and the Indian Office had encouraged 

 the project, with the result that 161 persons of the band removed dur- 

 ing the year to Indian Territory, the expense being borne l)y the 

 (Jovernment. Others were represented as being desirous to remove, 

 and the Commissioner recommended an appropriation for the purpose, 

 but as Congress failed to act the matter was dropped.' 



The neglected condition of the East Cherokee having been brought 

 to the attention of those old-time friends of the Indian, the Quakers, 

 through an appeal made in theii- behalf by members of that society 

 residing in North Carolina, the Western Yearly Meeting, of Indiana, 

 volunteered to undertake the work of civilization and education. On 

 May 31, 1881, representatives of the Friends entered into a contract 

 with the Indians, subject to approval by the Government, to establish 

 and continue among them for ten j-ears an industrial school and other 

 connnon schools, to l)e supported in part from the annutil interest of 

 the trust fund held by the (iovernment to the credit of the East Chero- 

 kee and in part by funds furnished by the Friends themselves. Through 

 the efforts of Barnabas C. Hobbs, of the Western Yearly Meeting, a 

 vearly contract to the .same effect was entered into with the Commi.s- 



' Rejiort of Agent W. C. JloCarthy, Report of Indian Commissioner, pp. 343-344, 1875; anri Report of 

 Indian r(»inmi.»*sione, pp. 118-11'.). 187t). 



-.\nthor's personal infonnatiiin; wee also Carrington, Ea.stern Band of Cherokees; Zei^der ami 

 Grosseup, Heart of the .^llegtiaiiies. pp. 3.5-36, 188;!. 



•'Commissioner H. Priee. Report of Indian Commissioner, pp. l.xiv-l.xv, l.^xi, and Report of Indian 

 Commissioner, pp. Ixix-lxx, 18.S2; see also ante, p. 151. 



