[404] Commissioner W. A. Jones, ibid., pp. i, 84 et seq. (Curtis act and Dawes commission). [↑]
[405] Report of Agent D. M. Wisdom, Report of Indian Commissioner, pp. 141–144, 1897. [↑]
[406] Author’s personal information; see also House bill No. 1165 “for the relief of certain Indians in Indian Territory,” etc., Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, 1900. [↑]
[407] Report of Agent D. M. Wisdom, Report of Indian Commissioner, p. 159, 1898. [↑]
[409] Charley’s story as here given is from the author’s personal information, derived chiefly from conversations with Colonel Thomas and with Wasitû′na and other old Indians. An ornate but somewhat inaccurate account is given also in Lanman’s Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, written on the ground ten years after the events described. The leading facts are noted in General Scott’s official dispatches. [↑]
[410] See New Echota treaty, December 29, 1835, and supplementary articles, March 1, 1836, in Indian Treaties, pp. 633–648, 1837; also full discussion of same treaty in Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 1888. [↑]
[411] Royce, op. cit., p. 292. [↑]
[413] In the Cherokee language Tsiskwâ′hĭ, “Bird place,” Ani′-Wâ′dihĭ, “Paint place,” Waʻyâ′hĭ, “Wolf place,” E′lawâ′di, “Red earth” (now Cherokee post-office and agency), and Kâlănûñ′yĭ, “Raven place.” There was also, for a time, a “Pretty-woman town” (Ani′-Gilâ′hĭ?). [↑]