. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . LAHOMA HISTORY own in 1830? What agreement did the United Statesmake with Georgia in 1802? Why did not the UnitedStates keep its promise? Why was Georgia not wilUngfor the Cherokees to stay where they were ? What lawdid Georgia make to apply to white men among theIndians? Why was that law made? Who was JohnMarshall? Written Work. Write on Georgias treatment of theCherokees. The New Echota Treaty. Readings. Read about De Soto among the Cher-okees in Border Fights and Fighters, Part I, byBrady. LESSON 6REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES (Concluded) Th
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . LAHOMA HISTORY own in 1830? What agreement did the United Statesmake with Georgia in 1802? Why did not the UnitedStates keep its promise? Why was Georgia not wilUngfor the Cherokees to stay where they were ? What lawdid Georgia make to apply to white men among theIndians? Why was that law made? Who was JohnMarshall? Written Work. Write on Georgias treatment of theCherokees. The New Echota Treaty. Readings. Read about De Soto among the Cher-okees in Border Fights and Fighters, Part I, byBrady. LESSON 6REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES (Concluded) The Cherokees refused to go, and remained intheir homes until removed in 1838 by GeneralWinfield Scott with an army of two thousand is one of the saddest chapters in Americanhistory. Some sixteen thousand men, women,and children were forcibly ejected from theirhomes and escorted to the West. About fourthousand perished on the way. It may be implied from a statement alreadymade, that there was at this time a Cherokee REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES 29. WiNFiELD Scott Nation West. Before the American Revolutiona good many Scotch and EngHsh had intermar-ried with the Cherokees. Being loyal to GreatBritain, they had helped toinfluence the Cherokees to takesides with the English duringthe Revolution. After the closeof the war the United Statesmade a treaty wdth the Chero-kees, at which time many pres-ents were distributed amongthe Indians. A small party ofthe Indians departed for theirhome and on the w^ay fell in with some white traderswho were going down the Tennessee River. Thetraders sold whisky to the Indians, and while thelatter were under the influence of the licjuor, se-cured about everything the Government had giventhe Indians, giving in return nothing of muchvalue. When the Indians had recovered from theeffects of the liquor, they wanted to trade whites refusing, a number of shots wereexchanged, and as a result the white men werekilled. Bowl, the leader of the part
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