Tennessee historical magazine [serial] . orth of Tennessee Rivernear Chattanooga and McMinn County and some smallminor tracts (not shown on map) were bought by theUnited States for money to be invested in schools for theCherokees. This was the last land in which the Stateowned by Indians, except the Hiwassee District (16 onthe map) and two other little tracts ceded by the OvertonTreaty in 1823. 16 1835 Final Treaty of Removal: Between the United States andthe Cherokees. This treaty confirmed the cessions of alllands east of the Mississippi to the United States for thesum of five million dollar
Tennessee historical magazine [serial] . orth of Tennessee Rivernear Chattanooga and McMinn County and some smallminor tracts (not shown on map) were bought by theUnited States for money to be invested in schools for theCherokees. This was the last land in which the Stateowned by Indians, except the Hiwassee District (16 onthe map) and two other little tracts ceded by the OvertonTreaty in 1823. 16 1835 Final Treaty of Removal: Between the United States andthe Cherokees. This treaty confirmed the cessions of alllands east of the Mississippi to the United States for thesum of five million dollars and 15 million acres of land inthe Indian Territory. These cessions covered a period of sixty years and in-cluded lands in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Ala-bama and Mississippi. The cessions included in the Stateof Tennessee are shown in the map opposite page . Haywood, History of Tennessee, p. 33, seq. 228 ALBERT C. HOLT o< OhH «p HW<! Oh QOOO =3 H « «HH < <i—i Q I—I pqw O h-1 03W w o Q <JI (M Ph <. to oo o GO ooo rH H off 1—( C 3 ou >>+3 aJH O PI =3 o co C3 U ^ C oo eo ^ohoo 02 S3 <Ste f- ^ a 0 cs eg ca c fe 01 SJ J 2 03 C- 00 o £>•> c3 >>-£ & * H N M ^ >C CO M ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BEGINNINGS OF TENNESSEE 229 NUMBERS OF THE INDIANS. It has been hard to determine the exact numbers of theIndians before they were shut up in reservations. The bound-aries of the separate tribes were constantly shifting, andthere were always large numbers of Indians who were moreor less independent of the well-established nations—like theChickamauga, that lawless band of renegades, which wasmade up of the disaffected and irresponsible warriors of theCherokees, Creeks and Chickasaws. These were, like runningwater, difficult to estimate. According to Roosevelt,98 thesouthern Indians were more numerous than those of the North-west, were less nomadic and confined more t
Size: 967px × 2584px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthortennesse, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1915
