Treaty and supplement with the Cherokee, 1834
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Title
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Treaty and supplement with the Cherokee, 1834
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Date Original
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19 June 1834
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23 June 1834
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Subjects/Keywords
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provide education assistance
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Description
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that ten thousand dollars a year, for twenty years, shall be allowed for common schools within the limits of the nation, and for teachers,
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the further sum of ten thousand dollars, for eighteen years, for the education of their children within the States
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also there shall be advanced to them twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting such school, and other houses, as the nation may desire
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promise to pay
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Description
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To grant to the Cherokee people, so soon as, by removing west of the Mississippi, this treaty takes effect, twenty-five thousand dollars a year for twenty-four years, the same to be paid annually to the chiefs, or the people thereof, as may be requested by the nation in council.
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an annual compensation of twelve hundred dollars for performing this trust
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Indian persons who shall emigrate before the fifteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, of whatever age or sex they may be, shall be entitled, on their arrival west, to be paid sixty dollars each; and twenty-five dollars will be allowed to those who shall remove during the ensuing year thereafter;
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five hundred thousand dollars shall be set apart for that purpose, to be disbursed to the different claimants at their new homes, as their removal takes place
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provide agriculture assistance
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Description
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the furnishing of blacksmith's shops with iron and steel, and for erecting mills, as the nation may desire;
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for ploughs, axes, hoes, looms, and wheels, thirty thousand dollars.
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promise to provide
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Description
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To furnish to those who emigrate, rifles, Mackinaw blankets, and brass kettles, as are stipulated for in the eighth article of the "treaty of the sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight," concluded at the city of Washington; the same to be furnished west of the river, except the blankets.
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Treaty Type
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treaty
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Bibliographic Citation
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Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 1252
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24th Cong., 2d sess., H. Doc. 286: 133
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Last updated in MODX
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2023-10-27
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MODX ID
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3079;treaty-and-supplement-with-the-cherokee-1834-22493
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3079