Cherokee Nation Is Fighting For a Seat in Congress ...Middle East

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In the years following the 1835 ratification of the Treaty of New Echota, John Ross, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, had to lead a people suffering from the tolls of forced displacement. The treaty, which sold roughly seven-million acres of ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government for $5 million, pushed Cherokee peoples westward from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina, marching along the Trail of Tears between 1837 and 1839. In the fall of 1838, federal troops rounded up and escorted approximately 16,000 Cherokees ahead of a four-month journey to modern day Oklahoma, during which one in four emigres died due to malnutrition, disease, s

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