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in the natural course of events, the remainder of the nation were forced 
to remove to the Arkansas country and join the earlier emigrants, the 
old hatreds and dissensions broke out afresh, and to this day they find 
lodgment in some degree in the breasts of their descendants. 
Dissatisfaction with the treaty of 1817.—The dissatisfaction with the 
treaty of 1817 took shape in the assemblage of a council at Amoha, in 
the Cherokee Nation, in September of the same year, at which six of 
the principal men were selected as a deputation to visit the President 
at Washington and present to him in person a detailed statement of 
the grievances and indignities to which they had been subjected in 
greater or less degree for many years and to ask relief and redress. 
They were to present, with special particularity, to the President's 
notice a statement of the improper methods and influences that had 
been used to secure the apparent consent of the nation to the treaty of 
1817. They were authorized to enter into a new treaty with the United 
States, in lieu of the recent one, in which an alteration might be made in 
certain articles of it, and some additional article inserted relative to 
the mode of payment of their annuity as between the Eastern and 
Arkansas Cherokees.! 
The delegation was received and interviews were accorded them by 
the President and Secretary of War, but they secured nothing but gen- 
eral expressions of good will and promises of protection in their rights 
and property. 
TREATY CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 27, 1819; PROCLAIMED MARCH 10, 
1819.7 
Held at Washington City, D. C., between John C. Calhoun, Secretary of 
War, specially authorized therefor by the President of the United States, 
and the chiefs and headmen of the Cherokee Nation of Indians. 
MATERIAL PROVISIONS. 
1. The Cherokee Nation cedes to the United States all of their lands 
lying north and east of the following line, viz: Beginning on the Ten- 
nessee River at the point where the Cherokee boundary with Madison 
County, in the Alabama Territory, joins the same ; thence along the 
main channel of said river to the mouth of the Highwassee; thence 
along its main channel to the first hill which closes in on said river, 
about two miles above Highwassee Old Town; thence along the ridge 
which divides the waters of the Highwassee and Little Tellico to the 
Tennessee River at Talassee; thence along the main channel to the 
junction of the-Cowee and Nanteyslee; thence along the ridge in the 


1 The instructions of the Amoha eel to ae cee of six bear. Satie of Fort- 
ville, Cherokee Nation, September 19, 1817. 
2United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 195. 
