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Tennessee visited Washington and in an interview with Jeffer¬ 
son represented to him that a part of their tribe was anxions to 
move to lands west of the Mississippi in order to continue their 
hunting life. The President gave them permission to send a 
party to explore the territory and afterwards to move to the 
lands of their choice, and by 1817 one-third of the Cherokees 
had crossed the river. 1 By two treaties in 1817 and 1819 (7 
Stats., 156, 195) the United States conveyed to the Cherokees 
a large tract of land between the Arkansas and White rivers, 
mostly in the present state of Arkansas. 2 
In order to make room for the advancing settlement, a new 
treaty was entered into with the Cherokees in 1829 (9 Stats., 
311), by which they gave up all claim to the lands in Arkan¬ 
sas granted to them in 1817 and 1819, and the United States 
agreed to guarantee to them forever seven million acres and a 
perpetual outlet west with free and unmolested use of all that 
country west of the western boundary of the seven million acres 
as far as the United States extended. 3 By treaties of 1833 and 
1835 (7 Stats., 414, 478), this Cherokee land was defined so as 
to include Tract 1, Plate IX, together with other land in 
what is now the state of Kansas', and in 1838 a single patent ; was 
issued to the Cherokees conveying all of this land. 4 Meanwhile 
the Indian Territory, as such, had been created by an act of 
Congress of 1834, setting it apart for the permanent occupa¬ 
tion of all the five tribes from the southern states. 5 The dis¬ 
covery of gold in Georgia and Alabama had led to trouble with 
the Indians remaining there and to a demand for their re¬ 
moval, so that the Cherokees east of the Mississippi were by 
the treaty of 1835, mentioned above, forced to cede all their in¬ 
herited lands and to join their tribesmen in Indian Territory. 6 
The first steps toward the removal of the Creek Indians 
were taken in 1824, in which year a treaty was made (7 Stats., 
1 Congressional Record, vol. 18, p. 334. 
2 Senate Executive Doc., 78, 51 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 3. 
3 Ibid. 
4 Ibid., p. 4. 
s United States Census, 1900, Indians, p. 529. 
e Congressional Record, vol. 18, p. 334. 
