page_title: Treaty of New Echota
section_title: Negotiations
hierarchical_section_title: Treaty of New Echota / Negotiations
caption_attribution_description: John Ridge (c. 1802 – June 22, 1839) by J. T. Bowen, lithographer after Henry Inman
context_page_description: The Treaty of New Echota was a treaty signed on December 29, 1835, in New Echota, Georgia, by officials of the United States government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, the Treaty Party.
  The treaty established terms under which the entire Cherokee Nation ceded its territory in the southeast and agreed to move west to the Indian Territory. Although the treaty was not approved by the Cherokee National Council nor signed by Principal Chief John Ross, it was amended and ratified in March 1836, and became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears.
caption: John Ridge
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