Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . tection to the lives and propertyof all citizens and residents thereof. In vain did the Cherokees call attention to that provision intheir treatv of 1828, which recited: That the United States anxiously desires to secure to theCherokees a permanent home which shall, under the solemn guar-antee of the United States, be and remain theirs forever—a homethat shall never, in all future time, be embarrassed by havingext
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . tection to the lives and propertyof all citizens and residents thereof. In vain did the Cherokees call attention to that provision intheir treatv of 1828, which recited: That the United States anxiously desires to secure to theCherokees a permanent home which shall, under the solemn guar-antee of the United States, be and remain theirs forever—a homethat shall never, in all future time, be embarrassed by havingextended around it the lines, or placed over it the jurisdiction of aTerritory or a State, nor be pressed upon by the extension, in anyway, of any of the limits of any existing Territory or State. During the year 1897 the Dawes Commission held numerousconferences with the Five Tribes at various places in the Terri-tory for the purpose of trying to induce them to agree to the disso-lution of their tribal governments and the allotment of their triballands in severalty. At one of these conferences held in Tahlequahduring the month of August, 1897, the first day was spent in hear-. THLOBTHLOCCOA Creek Town Cl)ief, 1880
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