Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-18

Delaware tradition who were represented to have been
driven southward from the upper Ohio river region by
the combined forces of the IrOquOis and Deawares
The language has three principal dialects: % Elat
Lower spoken on the heads of Savannah river, in
South Carolina and Georgia; (2) Middle spoken chiefly
the waters of uckasegee river in west North Caro-
lima and now the prevailing dialect the east Chero
kee reservation; 81 Atali, Mountain Upper spoken
throughout most of upper Georgia east Tennessee and
extreme western North Carolina. The lower dialect was
the only which had the sound and is extinct
The upper dialect is that which has been exclusively
used IN the native literature of the tribe
Traditional, linguistic, and archeologic evidence
shows that the Cherokee originated in the north but
they found III possession of the south Allegheny
region when first encountered by De Soto III 1910.
Their relations with the Carolina colonies began $50
years later In 1876 the Jesuit p Prber started the
first mission among them. and attempted to organize
their government a civilized basis. In 1883 under
the leadership of Aganstata (OcOnostota), they began
with the English of Carolina. In the Revolution
they took sides against the Americans, and continued
the struggle almost without interval until 1894 During
this period parties of the Cherokee pushed down
Tennessee river and formed settlements at Chicka-
mauga and other points about the Tennessee Alabama
line. Shortly after 1900, missionary and educational
work established among them and in 1920 they
adopted regular form of government modelled on that
of the United States. In the meantime large numbers
of the conservative Cherokees, weared by the
encrOachments of the whites had crossed the Mississippi
and made homes III the wilderness i'll what is now
Arkansas year two later Sequoya, a mixed blood
invented the alphabet which at raised them to the
rank of a literary people.
At the height of their prosperity gold was dis
covered near the present Dahonega, Ga. within the
limits of the Cherokee nation, and powerful
agitation begun for the removal of the Indians
After years of hopeless struggle under the leadership of
their great chief John Ross they compelled to
submit to the inevitable and by the treaty of New
EchOa, December 29, 1885, the Cherokees sold their
entire remaining territory and agreed to remove beyond
the Mississippi to country there to be set apart for
them-the present (1905) Cherokee nation in Indian
Territory. The removal was accomplished in the winter
of 1889 after considerable hardship and the loss of
nearly one-fourh of their number the unwilling Indians
being driven out by military force and making that
long journey on foot. On reaching their destination
they reorganized their national government with their
capital at Tahequah, admitting to equal privileges the
earlier emigrants, known old settlers A part of
the Arkansas Cherokee had previously gone down into
Texas, where they had obtained grant of land in the
eastern part of the state from the Mexican government
The later Texas revouonsts refused to recognize their
rights and in spite of the efforts Of Gen. Sam Houston
who defended the Indian claim, a conflict was pre-
cpated resulting in 1899 in the killing of the Chero
kee chief, Bowl, with large number of his men, by
the Texan troops and the expulsion of the Cherokee
from Texas