Description
In 1825 the Osage Nation was given a reservation in eastern Indian territory in what is now Kansas. In the Treaty of New Echota, May 23, 1836, the northern border of the Cherokee land was set as the southern border of the Osage lands. When Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, it set the southern border of the Kansas Territory as the 37th parallel north. It was thought at the time that the Osage southern border was also the 37th parallel.
The Cherokees immediately complained, saying that it was not the true boundary and that the border of Kansas should be moved north to accommodate the actual border of the Cherokee land.
The situation languished during the troubles in Kansas leading up to the Civil War. In 1866 treaty, after the Civil War, the Cherokees agreed by treaty to cede, in trust to the United States, such portion of their land that is now in present-day Kansas. A commission was set up to survey the disputed land. The survey, approved December 11, 1871, found that the border was off by 2.46 miles. The strip in question ran from the Neosho River to the 100th meridian and amounted to 434,679.36 acres (1,759 km²).
Under terms of Article 17 of the Treaty of 1866, the land was to be sold "at not less than $1.25 an acre " for the first year and then offered for sale at local land offices. The first year 156,848.47 acres (635 km²) were sold, and the balance of 277,830.89 acres (1,124 km²) was turned over to land offices during the summer of 1879. As required, the proceeds were placed in the United States Treasury subject to order of the Cherokee Nation council.
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