May 26, 1838, was the start of what we know today as the Trail of Tears, the forced deportation of 16,000 members of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARK HILL – Descendants of the Ross family gathered on Aug. 31 at the Park ... Daniel died in 1830 and Mary in 1808. John was principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866 and died at the ...

JOHN ROSS A PRISONER. A THIRD REGIMENT OF INDIAN HOME GUARDS CONTRABAND SOLDIERS. POLITICAL. Share full article Aug. 4, 1862 Credit... The New York Times Archives See the article in its original ...

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, ...

She was born in 1908 in Park Hill, Oklahoma to a family with a proud Cherokee Heritage. Her great, great grandfather John Ross was chief of the Cherokee Nation during the turbulent and traumatic ...

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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 ...

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 ...

PARK HILL – An eloquent leader in turbulent times, William Potter Ross had the distinction of becoming Cherokee Nation Principal Chief twice before Oklahoma statehood, though never by a popular vote ...