Cherokee Treaties
The Cherokee have participated in over forty treaties in the past three hundred years.
Read more about Cherokee Treaties: Pre-American Revolution, Pre-U.S. Constitution, Post-U.S. Constitution
Famous quotes containing the words cherokee and/or treaties:
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)