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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What you probably don’t picture are Cherokee slaveholders, foremost among them Cherokee chief John Ross. What you probably don’t picture are the numerous African-American slaves, Cherokee ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief John Ross is among the singers of the treaty, along with a delegation that included “old ...

and in February 1836 the Cherokee National Council voted to reject it. Led by Principal Chief John Ross, opponents submitted a petition, signed by thousands of Cherokee citizens, urging Congress ...

Hoping to placate members of that faction, John Ross, the nation’s principal chief, told Jackson the Cherokee would only part with their lands for the then-astronomical sum of $20 million.

Dramatization of the events leading up to the Cherokee Nation's terror-filled journey from their Southeastern homeland to the Oklahoma Territory in 1838-39; the journey itself, on which thousands ...

The direct descendant of Principal Chief John Ross said words cannot describe how grateful she is to be given the opportunity to learn more about her Cherokee heritage. “I have always wanted to ...

The John Ross Museum, 22366 S. 530 Road in Park Hill, highlights the life of the Cherokee leader. Nearby is Ross Cemetery, the resting place of John Ross, numerous high-ranking leaders of the ...

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 ...