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To: rustbucket

The treaty of 1791! You should talk to Stand Watie about how his namesake was a party to the sellout of the Cherokee Nation's lands in Georgia that effectively voided that treaty.


500 posted on 07/12/2006 8:02:03 AM PDT by usmcobra (How many ICBM tests does it take before Kim Jung Il is consider a threat? let's find out 1,2,3...)
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To: usmcobra
Interesting history. Thanks.

In the 1830s the US bypassed elected Cherokee officials and negotiated a treaty with a small group of others who were not authorized by Cherokee law to sign away Cherokee land. Seems like the treaty was simply a land grab by the government violating the earlier treaty.

507 posted on 07/12/2006 8:22:52 AM PDT by rustbucket
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