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Treaty of New Echota
The treaty of 29 December 1835 by which a Cherokee minority party ceded the Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi; ratified in 1836.
- Dates
- 29 Dec 1835
Connections 4
signed by
- Major Ridge 29 Dec 1835 Primary record 1
- John Ridge 1 Mar 1836 Primary record 1
led to
- Removal of the Cherokees, 1838 Primary record 23
written at
- New Echota 29 Dec 1835 Primary record 1
Timeline 4 dates
- 29 Dec 1835 Treaty of New Echota
- 29 Dec 1835 Major Ridge signed Treaty of New Echota
- 29 Dec 1835 Treaty of New Echota written at New Echota
- 1 Mar 1836 John Ridge signed Treaty of New Echota
Proof 3 sources
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Treaty with the Cherokees, 29 December 1835, United States Statutes at Large, vol. 7, p. 478, 29 Dec 1835.
Primary record
WM. CARROLL, J. F. SCHERMERHORN. Major Ridge, James Foster, Tesa-ta-esky
In compliance with instructions of the council at New Echota we sign this treaty. STAND WATIE, JOHN RIDGE.
Concluded at New Echota in the State of Georgia on the 29th
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The Cherokee Nation Trail of Tears, Cherokee Nation.
Scholarship & press
This event was the forced removal of 16,000 Cherokees pursuant to the Treaty of New Echota of 1835.
More than 4,000 died.
Cherokee people were forced from their homes in Georgia and Tennessee and made to walk to Indian Territory, 800 miles away, in the dead of winter.
This treaty was fraudulent on its face, violated a U. S. Supreme Court decision (Worcester v. Georgia, 1832), and undermined the constitutional government of the Cherokee Nation.
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Analyzing the Petition Against the Treaty of New Echota, National Archives, DocsTeach.
Primary record
The treaty required Cherokees living in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama to leave their land and move to Indian Territory, in what is today eastern Oklahoma.
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