June 24, 1839 – Documenting The Cherokee Nation’s Genocidal Coup de Taut Against The Chickamauga Nation Condoned by The United States.
Chief Ross on account of the disturbed condition of affairs which caused bodies of men to congregate for protection or reprisal, both among the eastern and western Cherokees, refused to attend the proposed meeting at Fort Gibson except that he be allowed to bring a large body guard of emigrant Cherokees with him.
The Illegal Assassinations, Genocide, Coup de Taut, and Theft of the Chickamauga Treaty Rights from the 1835 – 7 Stat. 478, 1835 – 7 Stat. 474, 1833 7 Stat 414, 1828 – 7 Stat. 311, and the December 31, 1838, Land Patent, and the complicit refusal to uphold the Treaties by the United States Government.
From the Cherokee Registry https://cherokeeregistry.com/the-emigration-from-georgia-trail-of-tears/
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[EDITORIAL]: Throughout this document the Chickamauga and Chickamauga Nation are referred to as the Arkansas Cherokee, the Western Cherokee or Old Settlers. These terms were used not only by the East Cherokee but the United States government as well. The United States was too lazy to correct their actions and behavior, all the while the East Cherokee used these names to claim the power, authority, honor, and dignity of The Chickamauga Nation and their traditional customs and beliefs associated with the Mound Building Culture and the Southeast Ceremonial Religious Complex. The Cherokee had NO Claims to the Mound Building Culture or the Southeast Ceremonial Religious Complex because they are Canadian, Great Lakes, Erie people who were expelled from the Iroquoian Confederacy after the end of the Beaver Wars and eventually immigrated into the Southeast sometime after the mid-1670s and whose Chief, Charles Hicks says they assassinated Lower Town Chiefs and Priest when they arrived in 1805 – 1815.
“Headquarters, Ind. Dept W. Division. Fort Gibson, June 24, 1839.
Dear Sir: A number of friends of Messrs Ridge and Boudinot are here. I have advised them of your desire to have a full investigation of the late murders committed in your nation. This, they declare, is all they desire; and they have requested me to say to you that they expect that you will take immediate measures to have the murderers apprehended and brought to trial, agreeably to the laws of the Cherokee Nation. Justice to you requires that should state to you that they have informed me that they have heard that some of the murderers are now at your house. If this is the case, I must believe that you are not apprised of the fact; and if, on inquiry, the report made to me on this subject is correct, the troops sent out will take charge of them if turned over, and convey them in safely to this post. I hope you will avail yourself of the opportunity of the command to visit this post, as I expect the chiefs named to you in my letter of the 23rd ultimately will be here this evening or early tomorrow morning.
I am, sir, with much respect, your obedient servant.
M. Arbuckle,
Brevet Brig. General, U. S. A.
John Ross, Esq.
Principal Chief of the Emigrant Cherokees, Illinois.”
Chief Ross on account of the disturbed condition of affairs which caused bodies of men to congregate for protection or reprisal, both among the eastern and western Cherokees, refused to attend the proposed meeting at Fort Gibson except that he be allowed to bring a large body guard of emigrant Cherokees with him.