. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . 24 REMOVAL OF Till-: CIir^ROKKES 25 west as the United States extended, or to the RockyMountains. Oklahoma without the Panhandle,Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas have sincebeen carved out of it. The Cherokees, an important tribe of theIrociuoian group of Indians, at the time of the firstEnglish settlements, possessed a large countryextending from a short distance west of the Caro-lina and Virginia settlements almost to theMississippi River. By 1830 they had disposedof the larger part of their lands, and what theystill owned was northern G
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . 24 REMOVAL OF Till-: CIir^ROKKES 25 west as the United States extended, or to the RockyMountains. Oklahoma without the Panhandle,Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas have sincebeen carved out of it. The Cherokees, an important tribe of theIrociuoian group of Indians, at the time of the firstEnglish settlements, possessed a large countryextending from a short distance west of the Caro-lina and Virginia settlements almost to theMississippi River. By 1830 they had disposedof the larger part of their lands, and what theystill owned was northern Georgia, northeasternAla])ama, southeastern Tennessee, and westernNorth Carolina. A good many whites had inter-married with them, and alarge number of the tribe hadsettled down to peaceful pur-suits. When the United Statesbecame independent, the stateof Georgia extended to theMississippi River. It was thedesire of the United Statesthat Georgia should give upall her lands west of her present limits. In 1802Georgia ceded her western lands to the United. John Ross 26 OKLAHOMA HISTORY States with the understanding that the Indianswould be removed from the state as soon as itcould be done peaceably. Many of the Cherokees were opening up andimproving farms and it became evident to theGeorgia urges people of Georgia that it would be-removai comc more and more difficult to have them removed. As the Cherokees had a tribalgovernment, it was a case of a state within astate, which is an unsatisfactory , the people of Georgia thought the Cher-okees had more good land than they could use,and the whites wished to dig for gold on thisland. For these reasons the Georgians became veryimpatient to have the Indians removed. While the Federal Government was under prom-ise to move the Indians, it was reluctant to do soby force. The state passed laws against theCherokees and the whites who dwelt among law provided that any white person livingamong the Indians should take an
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