Title: Treaty with the Cherokee
Subtitle: October 7th, 1861. A treaty of friendship and alliance, made and concluded at Tahlequah, in the Cherokee nation, on the seventh day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, between the Confederate States of America, by Albert Pike, commissioner with plenary powers, of the Confederate States, of the one part, and the Cherokee nation of Indians, by John Ross, the principal chief, Joseph Verner, assistant principal chief, James Brown, John Drew and William P. Ross, executive councillors, constituting ... the Executive council of the nation and authorized to enter into this treaty by a general convention of the Cherokee people, held at Tahlequah ... on the twenty-first day of August ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one ... of the other part.
First published: 1861
Subjects: Treaties, Cherokee Indians