History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . nts of six hundred aud fortyacres each to individual Indians. The policy of the treaty was to encourage the Cherokees toemigrate west of the Mississippi, aud to induce those who remained to abandon their tribal rela-tions, and to become citizens of the United States. This treaty extinguished the title of theCherokees to all lands in Tennessee, except the tract marked 24, and known as the HiwasseeDistrict, to which they retained title tiutil December, 1835. 234. Overtons Treaty.—In 1S23, a treaty was made with the Chickasaws by Judge JohnO
History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . nts of six hundred aud fortyacres each to individual Indians. The policy of the treaty was to encourage the Cherokees toemigrate west of the Mississippi, aud to induce those who remained to abandon their tribal rela-tions, and to become citizens of the United States. This treaty extinguished the title of theCherokees to all lands in Tennessee, except the tract marked 24, and known as the HiwasseeDistrict, to which they retained title tiutil December, 1835. 234. Overtons Treaty.—In 1S23, a treaty was made with the Chickasaws by Judge JohnOverton by which the Chickasaws released claim to the small tracts of land which they hadreserved in former treaties. One tract, four miles square, including the salt lick on Sandy River,is shown on the map, marked 24. Another tract, one mile square, on Tennessee River, at themouth of Duck River, and known as Okoyes Reservation, is marked 25. ^ See two letters of Andrew Jackson in American Historical Magazine, Vol. IV, pp. 99-101(April number, 1899).. 136 History of Tennessee. 235. Attitude of Tennessee and Georgia.— The Cherokees were too weak to engagein war, but were not congenial neighbors. Tliey had learned many of the arts and vices ofcivilized life, and had, to a great extent, abandoned their roving habits. They did not need largeareas of ground, and had gradually sold all their territory in Tennessee except Hiwassee bulk of the nation had been gradually forced down into Georgia. They showed some dispo-sition to become citizens cf the United States, and actually made propositions to that effect. The , - -, people of Tennessee and Georgia, however, were ^.^ bent on their removal across the Mississippi. Both States became involved in controversies with theFederal authorities in reference to the Indian rela-tions. The controversy on the part of Tennessee w^as with reference to the State law directing the sale of disputed reservations. The controversy onthe p
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