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id: 4241
author: Unknown
title: Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41
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  The fact is, that many of our combinations of consonants in the English written language are artificial, and worse than worthless. It is almost impossible to write Indian words and names correctly in English.


id: 50734
author: Wood, George W. (George Warren)
title: Report of Mr. Wood's Visit to the Choctaw and Cherokee Missions. 1855
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  In view of all the relations, which after full consideration the subject seemed to have, the following resolution, expressing the sentiment of the Deputation and the mission, was cheerfully and unanimously adopted by the mission; one of the older members, however, avowing some difficulty in giving his assent to the latter part of it, viz: _Resolved_, That while we should esteem it our duty to relinquish the female boarding schools at Pine Ridge, Wheelock and Stockbridge, rather than to carry them on under the provisions and restrictions of the late school law, yet regarding it as improbable that the requirement so to do will be enforced, we deem it important, in the present circumstances of the Choctaw Nation and mission, to continue our connection with them _on the original basis_, and carry them forward with new hope and energy. WOOD'S VISIT TO THE CHOCTAW AND CHEROKEE MISSIONS.


id: 29513
author: Marshall, John
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title:
  Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia With a Statement of the Case, Extracted from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States

summary:
  And this defendant saith, that he is a citizen of the State of Vermont, one of the United States of America, and that he entered the aforesaid Cherokee nation in the capacity of a duly authorized missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, under the authority of the President of the United States, and has not since been required by him to leave it: that he was, at the time of his arrest, engaged in preaching the Gospel to the Cherokee Indians, and in translating the sacred Scriptures into their language, with the permission and approval of the said Cherokee nation, and in accordance with the humane policy of the Government of the United States, for the civilization and improvement of the Indians; and that his residence there, for this purpose, is the residence charged in the aforesaid indictment: and this defendant further saith, that this prosecution the State of Georgia ought not to have or maintain, because, he saith, that several treaties have, from time to time, been entered into between the United States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, to wit: at Hopewell, on the 28th day of November, 1785; at Holston, on the 2d day of July, 1791; at Philadelphia, on the 26th day of June, 1794; at Tellico, on the 2d day of October, 1798; at Tellico, on the 24th day of October, 1804; at Tellico, on the 25th day of October, 1805; at Tellico, on the 27th day of October, 1805; at Washington City, on the 7th day of January, 1805; at Washington City, on the 22d day of March, 1816; at the Chickasaw Council House, on the 14th day of September, 1816; at the Cherokee Agency, on the 8th day of July, 1817, and at Washington City, on the 27th day of February, 1819: all which treaties have been duly ratified by the Senate of the United States of America; and, by which treaties, the United States of America acknowledge the said Cherokee nation to be a sovereign nation, authorized to govern themselves, and all persons who have settled within their territory, free from any right of legislative interference by the several States composing the United States of America, in reference to acts done within their own territory; and, by which treaties, the whole of the territory now occupied by the Cherokee nation, on the East of the Mississippi, has been solemnly guarantied to them; all of which treaties are existing treaties at this day, and in full force. And this defendant saith, that the several acts charged in the bill of indictment, were done, or omitted to be done, if at all, within the said territory so recognized as belonging to the said nation, and so, as aforesaid, held by them, under the guaranty of the United States: that, for those acts, the defendant is not amenable to the laws of Georgia, nor to the jurisdiction of the courts of the said State; and that the laws of the State of Georgia, which profess to add the said territory to the several adjacent counties of the said State, and to extend the laws of Georgia over the said territory, and persons inhabiting the same; and, in particular, the act on which this indictment _vs._ this defendant is grounded, to wit: An act entitled an act to prevent the exercise of assumed and arbitrary power, by all persons, under pretext of authority from the Cherokee Indians, and their laws, and to prevent white persons from residing within that part of the chartered limits of Georgia, occupied by the Cherokee Indians, and to provide a guard for the protection of the gold mines, and to enforce the laws of the State within the aforesaid territory, are repugnant to the aforesaid treaties; which, according to the constitution of the United States, compose a part of the supreme law of the land; and that these laws of Georgia are, therefore, unconstitutional, void, and of no effect: that the said laws of Georgia are also unconstitutional and void, because they impair the obligation of the various contracts formed by and between the aforesaid Cherokee nation and the said United States of America, as above recited: also, that the said laws of Georgia are unconstitutional and void, because they interfere with, and attempt to regulate and control, the intercourse with the said Cherokee nation, which, by the said constitution, belongs exclusively to the Congress of the United States; and because the said laws are repugnant to the statute of the United States, passed on the ---- day of March, 1802, entitled An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers: and that, therefore, this Court has no jurisdiction to cause this defendant to make further or other answer to the said bill of indictment, or further to try and punish this defendant for the said supposed offence or offences alleged in the bill of indictment, or any of them: And, therefore, this defendant prays judgment whether he shall be held bound to answer further to said indictment? GEORGIA, _Gwinnett county_:


id: 53375
author: Jarrett, Robert Frank
title: Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic Lake
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  Gu`wisguwi`--The Cherokee name of the chief John Ross, and for the district named in his honor, commonly spelled Cooweescoowee. tsaru--see tsalu. Tsasta`wi--a noted hunter formerly living upon Nantahala river, in Macon county, North Carolina; the meaning of the name is doubtful. Tsatanu`gi (commonly spelled Chattanooga)--the Cherokee name for some point upon the creek entering Tennessee river at the city of Chattanooga, in Hamilton county, Tennessee.


id: 31801
author: Murfree, Mary Noailles
title: The Story of Old Fort Loudon
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  The Cherokee kings had offered Captain Stuart life and practically liberty in exchange for this service. The corporal, a dark-haired, blue-eyed, florid young Irishman, looking very stanch and direct and steady, but not without a twinkle of humor which betokened some histrionic capacity to support the situation, speaking partly in English and partly, glibly enough, in very tolerable Cherokee, although incongruously embellished with an Irish brogue, detailed that Captain Stuart had been apprised that there was a band of Indians on the river who had some white people with them, and he wished to know if these white people were French, in which case, according to the treaty made with the Cherokees, they must be arrested and delivered up to the commandant of the fort, or if English, he wished to be assured that they were at liberty to go where they pleased, and were under no restraint.


id: 46493
author: Royce, Charles C.
title: The Cherokee Nation of Indians. (1887 N 05 / 1883-1884 (pages 121-378))
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  155 Cherokee refuse to cede lands in 260 O. Old Settler Cherokee party 293, 375 payments to 299 propose to remove to Mexico 302 claims of, settled 307 O-poth-le-yo-ho-lo loyal to the United States 330, 331 Osage half breed reserves, purchase of 252 Osage and Cherokee, treaty between 222 difficulties between 242 Osage removed to Indian Territory 359 Otoe removed to Indian Territory 364 P. Parker, E. S., commissioner to treat with Indians 341 Parris, Albion K., commissioner to treat with Cherokee 298, 305 Pawnee removed to Indian Territory 360 Phillips, Wm. A., Cherokee commissioner to appraise neutral lands 351 Pickens, Andrew, commissioner to treat with Cherokee as to boundary 133, 165, 180 Pike, Albert, as to Pin Society 325 Cherokee commissioner for Confederate States 326, 327, 328, 329 Pin Society of Cherokee 325 Ponca removed to Indian Territory 364 Price, Hiram, aid acknowledged 130 R. Rector, William, surveyed Cherokee line in Arkansas 222 Ridge, John, with Cherokee delegation at Washington 278, 279 murder of 293 compensation to heirs of 299 Ridge party of Cherokee 293 Ridge treaty rejected by Cherokee 280 Robertson, James, commissioner of Cherokee treaty 194 Rogers, James, deputized by Cherokee to treat 212 Ross, Andrew, proposition for Cherokee treaty 274, 275 and others, preliminary treaty concluded with 275 Ross, John, applies for injunction against Georgia 262, 272 alleged attempt to bribe 273 protests against the removal of Cherokee 273, 275 opposition to Andrew Ross's proposition 275 heads Cherokee delegation to Washington in 1835 278, 279 arrest of 281 opposition to treaty 282 refusal of, to acquiesce in treaty 283 proposes new Cherokee treaty 291 heads delegation to Washington in 1844 300 advises sale of Fort Gibson in town lots 322 opposes survey and allotment of Cherokee domain 324 relations of, to Southern Confederacy 326-332 not recognized as principal chief of Cherokee 343, 344 death of 347 Ross or Government party of Cherokee 293 Robertson, Charles, deed to, on the Watauga 147 Robertson, General, agent of Tennessee with Cherokee 179 Rutherford, Griffith, march against Cherokee 157 S. Saline or salt plains, treaty provisions regarding 250, 300 Schermerhorn, John F., commissioner to treat with Cherokee 249, 253, 257, 282 commissioner to report on country assigned to Indians of the West 251 appointed to treat with Ridge Cherokee delegation 278, 279 Schoolcraft, H. R., on identity of the Allegan with the Cherokee 137 Scott, Winfield, ordered to command troops in Cherokee country 291 Sells, Elijah, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 334, 341 Sequoyah, or George Guess, death of 302 Shawnee, expelled by Cherokee and Chickasaw 144 join Cherokee 356-358 Smith, Daniel, commissioner for treaty with Cherokee 183, 187, 190 Smith, Thomas E., commissioner to appraise Indian lands 363 South Carolina, endeavors of, to extinguish Cherokee title 204, 205 Southern Confederacy and the Cherokee 326-333, 342 Sprague, Peleg, denounces policy toward Cherokee 288 Steele, John, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 176 Stevens, E. L., aid acknowledged 130 Stokes, Montfort, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 249 commissioner to report on country assigned to Indians of the West 251 Storrs, Henry R., denounces policy toward Cherokee 288 Strum, G. P., aid acknowledged 130 Stuart, James, agent of Tennessee to treat with Cherokee 179 Supreme Court decision, in Cherokee Nation <i>vs.</i> Georgia 264 Sweatland, S. H., census of Cherokee in North Carolina in 1869 by 314 T. Talootiske, Cherokee, grant of 193 Tatnall, E. F., appointed to assist in Cherokee removal 260 Taylor, Nathaniel G., commissioner to treat with Cherokee 340, 352 Tennessee, commissioners from, to treaty council of Cherokee 179 endeavor of, to treat with Cherokee 201 on validity of Cherokee reservations 232 Tennessee Company, purchase of Cherokee land by 162 Thomas, William H., agent for Cherokee 315 Thompson, R. F., aid acknowledged 130 Tompkins, H., census of Cherokee in 1867 by 351 Topping, Enoch H., commissioner to appraise Indian lands 363 Treaties and purchases of 1777 149 Treaties between the State of Franklin and the Cherokee 151, 152 Treaties of March 22, 1816 197, 198 Treaty and purchase of 1721 144 Treaty and purchase of 1755 145 Treaty and purchase of 1768 146 Treaty and purchase of 1770 146 Treaty and purchase of 1772 146 Treaty and purchase of 1773 148 Treaty and purchase of 1783 151 Treaty between Confederate States and Cherokee 328 Treaty Cherokee propose to remove to Mexico 302 Treaty of Hopewell, proceedings at 152 Treaty of 1756 145 Treaty of 1760 145 Treaty of 1761 146 Treaty of 1775 148 Treaty of November 28, 1785 133, 158 Treaty of July 2, 1791 158 Treaty of February 17, 1792 169 Treaty of June 26, 1794 171 Treaty of October 2, 1798 174 Treaty of October 24, 1804 183 Treaty of October 25, 1805 189 Treaty of October 27, 1805 190 Treaty of January 7, 1806 193 Treaty of September 11, 1807 194 Treaty of September 14, 1816 209 Treaty of July 8, 1817 212 Treaty of February 27, 1819 219 Treaty of May 6, 1828 229 Treaty of February 14, 1833 249 Treaty of December 29, 1835 253 Treaty of 1835, adjudication of 305 Treaty of 1835 declared void by Cherokee 294 Treaty of March 1, 1836, supplementary 257 Treaty of August 6, 1846 298 Treaty of July 19, 1866 334 Treaty of April 27, 1868 340 Treaty or Ridge party of Cherokee 293 payments to 299 feuds of 301, 302 Troup, Governor, on relations of Cherokee to Georgia 237 Tyler, John M., promises settlement of difficulties with Cherokee 296 V. Van Buren, Martin, offers a compromise in Cherokee affairs 290 Vashon, George, negotiates a treaty with Cherokee 252 Voorhees, D. W., counsel for Cherokee 345 W. Waddell, Hugh, negotiates treaty of 1756 with Cherokee and Catawba 145 Wafford's settlement 186, 187 Wales, Samuel A., instructed by Governor Forsyth to establish Cherokee boundary line 269 Walton, George, commissioner to treat with Cherokee 174, 176 Washington, George, in relation to Cherokee 161, 173 Watie, Stand, a Confederate leader in the civil war 298, 325, 328, 333 confiscation act against adherents of 343 Webster, Daniel, denounces policy toward Cherokee 288, 290 Wellborn, Johnson, Georgia commissioner in treating with Cherokee 236 Whitner, Joseph, surveyor of Cherokee boundary line 165, 168 Wilkerson, William N., commissioner to appraise Indian lands 363 Wilkinson, James, commissioner for Cherokee treaty 184 Winchester, James, survey of Cherokee boundary line by 154 commissioner for Cherokee boundary 165 Wise, Henry A., denounces policy toward Cherokee 288, 289 Wistar, Thomas, commissioner to treat with Indians 341 Wool, John E., in command of troops in Cherokee Nation 283 report on Cherokee affairs 286 relieved 289 Worcester <i>vs.</i> Georgia, Supreme Court decision in 264 Y. Yellow Creek settlement 183 BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT PL.


id: 45634
author: Mooney, James
title: Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology
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  Other old Cherokee names for western tribes which can not be identified are Tayûñ'ksi, the untranslatable name of a tribe described simply as living in the West; Tsuniya'tiga, Naked people, described as living in the far West; Gûn'-tsuskwa'`li, Short-arrows, who lived in the far West, and were small, but great fighters; Yûñ'wini'giski, Man-eaters, a hostile tribe west or north, possibly the cannibal Atakapa or Tonkawa, of Louisiana or Texas. Gu'wisguwi'--The Cherokee name for the chief John Ross and for the district named in his honor, commonly spelled Cooweescoowee.


