Cherokee Indians & Cherokee Strip 1893 Settlement
Before the 1893 settlement of the Cherokee Strip, the Cherokee Indian had resisted the march of civilization westward for nearly two centuries.
Found on Newspapers.com
As early as 1712 their land on the eastern coast was encroached upon by the whites and they began selling off their territory, retiring westward step by step until they become cornered in a comparatively small area finally allotted to them in the Indian Territory, in what is today Oklahoma.
In 1721 the Cherokees dominated vast tracts of land in the East and southeast. In that year they ceded to South Carolina 1,679,000 acres. Since then they had disposed of by treaty a intervals of from five to twenty-five years no less and 87,300,000 acres to North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and the United States.
It has been proven the Cherokee Indian were not much of a business manager, and were easily swindled out of their lands by the greedy white man. Out of all the transaction, exclusive of the Cherokee Strip, the Indians received by $2,000,000. For the Strip they received $8,600,000, but only after a hard fight with the United States government.
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