Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent ...

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress John Ross made an unlikely looking Cherokee chief. Born in 1790 to a Scottish trader and a woman of Indian and European ...

The Annual Message of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, is published in The Cherokee Advocate of the 14th ult. It has one great merit--brevity. We extract a few paragraphs: View Full Articl ...

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 Chief John Ross Bridge, unaware that the span was named for the longest serving (1828-1866) principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. The Ross Bridge was built after it became evident that the ...

First cover of the Cherokee Phoenix/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons ... Opposing them were the purists who rejected slavery, joined by Chief John Ross, advocating a policy of neutrality, ...

Chief John Ross Chapter, NSDAR had their March meeting on the 13th, and the meeting theme was Women’s History Month. Officials said, "Chapter member, Kay Sencabaugh, presented an entertaining ...

by General William Carroll and John F. Schermerhorn, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen, and people of the Cherokee tribes of Indians." A spurious Delegation ...

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