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The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
With no authority to represent their people, the treaty signers gave up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River. In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands ...
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The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View
The treaty also required families to send their children between the ages of six and 16 to school on tribal land—for the first 20 years, the government was to provide a classroom and teacher for ...