[334] Council resolutions, August 23, 1839, in Report Indian Commissioner, p. 387, 1839; Royce, op. cit., p. 294. [↑]
[335] See “Act of Union” and “Constitution” in Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation, 1875; General Arbuckle’s letter to the Secretary of War, June 28, 1840, in Report of Indian Commissioner, p. 46, 1840; also Royce, op. cit., pp. 294, 295. [↑]
[336] See ante, pp. 105–106; Nuttall, who was on the ground, gives them only 1,500. [↑]
[337] Washburn, Cephas, Reminiscences of the Indians, pp. 81, 103; Richmond, 1869. [↑]
[338] Nuttall, Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory, etc., p. 129; Philadelphia, 1821. [↑]
[339] Ibid., pp. 123–136. The battle mentioned seems to be the same noted somewhat differently by Washburn, Reminiscences, p. 120; 1869. [↑]
[340] Royce, Cherokee Nation, op. cit., p. 222. [↑]
[341] Washburn, op. cit., p. 160, and personal information from J. D. Wafford. [↑]
[342] Royce, op. cit., pp. 242, 243; Washburn, op. cit., pp. 112–122 et passim; see also sketches of Tahchee and Tooantuh or Spring-frog, in McKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, I and II, 1858. [↑]
[343] Washburn, Reminiscences, p. 178, 1869; see also ante p. 206. [↑]