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status
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Needs further review
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Responses received from some, but not all tribes
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Description
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Sara E. Hill, Attorney General, Cherokee Nation, 918.207.3836 (work), 918.822.2304 (mobile) sara-hill@cherokee.org
Expressed concern about the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of OK being a successor in interest to general Cherokee treaties. She will send an opinion letter on the topic.
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Title
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Treaty with the Cherokee, 1866
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Date Original
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1866
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19 July 1866
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Date Proclaimed
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11 August 1866
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Date Ratified
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27 July 1866
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Subjects/Keywords
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See all items with this valueTreaties
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See all items with this valueStatutes
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See all items with this valueIndians of North America
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See all items with this valueUnited States
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railroads
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Description
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The Cherokee Nation hereby grant a right of way not exceeding two hundred feet wide, except at stations, switches, waterstations, or crossing of rivers, where more may be indispensable to the full enjoyment of the franchise herein granted, and then only two hundred additional feet shall be taken, and only for such length as may be absolutely necessary, through all their lands, to any company or corporation which shall be duly authorized by Congress to construct a railroad
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right of way
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Description
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The Cherokee Nation hereby grant a right of way not exceeding two hundred feet wide, except at stations, switches, waterstations, or crossing of rivers, where more may be indispensable to the full enjoyment of the franchise herein granted, and then only two hundred additional feet shall be taken, and only for such length as may be absolutely necessary, through all their lands, to any company or corporation which shall be duly authorized by Congress to construct a railroad
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provide agriculture assistance
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Description
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Every Cherokee and freed person resident in the Cherokee Nation shall have the right to sell any products of his farm, including his or her live stock, or any merchandise or manufactured products
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provide education assistance
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Description
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the interest on all said funds shall be paid semi-annually on the order of the Cherokee Nation, and shall be applied to the following purposes, to wit: Thirty-five per cent. shall be applied for the support of the common-schools of the nation and educational purposes; fifteen per cent
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support of an asylum for the education of orphan children
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crimes against Indian country
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Description
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United States district court, the nearest to the Cherokee Nation, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all causes, civil and criminal, wherein an inhabitant of the district hereinbefore described shall be a party, and where an inhabitant outside of said district, in the Cherokee Nation, shall be the other party
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MODX ID
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372;treaty-with-the-cherokee-1866-0942
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Last Updated in MODX
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2023-10-27
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Compiler and Editor
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Kappler, Charles J.
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Description
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Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is a historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes.
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Publisher
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Government Printing Office
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Temporal Coverage
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1788-1883
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Treaty Type
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treaty
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Bibliographic Citation
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 2, Treaties, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1904), 942.
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Identifier
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oksd_kap_v2_355
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RIT_358
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NAI_179015384
14 Stat. 799