The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-30
Tribes Cash, 100000. or Sis Per
Capita, to be Distributed
to ALSO Members
BECAME CITIZENS OF
UNITED STATES IN 1907
Work of Winding Up Affairs Q.
Chiokasaws, Choctaws, Creeks
and Semincles in Progress.

hut steady absorption into the body
Of American citizenship. was made
evident by the re ont order of the
Indian Office dissoNirg the Caorokee
, ration as tribal entity on July +
last and placing the members or tra
largest of the Five Civilized Tribes
on the same footing rs white resi-.
dents of Oklahoma.
The Cherokees have figured In
fsome of the notable stages of Amari.
can history. EthnologicaIlv thew
fare said to be a branch of the lrc
quois nation. Originally thew cceu.
ipied tile Arpamatox basin of Viz
ginia but were gradually driven
south into Georgia and The Carolinas
With branches in Kentucky ana Ten
nessee Here thev delelCpcd tho
powerful confederacy which made
treaties with the United States and
resisted the Efforts of the states f.
dispossass them. This raised ono Of
the first issues over the states being
bound by federal treaties. When
the United States Supreme Court sny-
tanned the thtr0kee treaties. An
drew Jackson, then President. made
his famous remark; "Wel, John
Marshall has made his decision. now
let him enforce it,"
The Cherokees made rapid Dro.
eross in education and civilization
abandoning the chase for agricul-
ture, and finally developing an al
phabet and language of their own
This was the production Of one Of
their miXed-blood members. Senuovo
or George GQss, who invented a svl-
labary Of rs signs forming the basis
OF the Cherokee language since
known as Sequoya About this time
newspaper, the Cheroqee Phoenix
was started at New Echota. in Gcor
sia, the capital Of the Nation. The
office was a log house and the paper
was printed in English and Charo.
kee. Publication was SUSPENDED
after six years by the Georgia M.
thorities.
Al the height of the Cnerokee,~ |
prosperity gold was discovered with |
In the territory and agitation for The |
removal of the Indians soon beam |
After a hopeless struggle LASTING ia, |
Years, under their great chief Ioh, |
Ross, the Chcrokces, on Dcren,bo,
~ 1888, signed treaty hy r-eLl |
they agreed to sell their rop,at,f, |
territory and move ont beyond In |
Mississippi to a country thero 10 hc |
set aside for them, in Indian Ter
1itory.
Objection to the migration do
'eioped among many of the chnro.
KEGS, and General Winfield Scott wa.
fnaily sent to forcibly remove -,
roo0 Indians to their new home ~
the West. They suffered torr,,io
hardships on the long Journey i,
loot and it is said nearly ono fonrt,
u the number persisted. Ar,r.sa.
N their new home they formed !,
2ational government, witt, tha cont
al at Tahlequah.
The task Of converting tho -b,r.
fees from tribal commupit into
body of individual land owners bs
IAN IN 1902, when they q,gpcd o.,
greement with the United : qt.
y which the government rodar,r,,
O make complete rolls Of All .5c
rioesmon and divide The Lana 49,.
1oney among them. The C,,r,i...c.
aSsed By Congress in 1898. provia
Or the valuation and allof. naof 81
he lands of the Five ;r.i.,- |
'rtbes. In 1906 the lcgisla .,u, ,,. /
ldicial departments of tho Cboeo \
ee Nation passed ont Of ay,s.an,a \
ut the executive branch wa tor Il
p under the Principal Chief Ny r II
ogers. In 1907, when the STAFF ofI Il
kIahoma was formed, all members /
the tribe became citizens. Il
The task Of dssolvina tho ,her, Il
'cs, which might, in general w,v i
compared with that Of windf,.~ $50, II
re affairs of an immense estate h,3 Il
July last progressed n qn.,, /
gree that it only lcma'n d rof ~. /
lltca States to eyer1tn = ro.,, 49,, II