essay
William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee claims
Cherokee Indian nation : a troubled history • Knoxville • Published In 1979 • Pages: 181-201
By: Iobst, Richard W. (Richard William).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Under the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 the Eastern Cherokees ceded all of their lands east of the Mississippi to the United States in return for five million dollars and the right ot occupy lands in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma next to those already occupied by the Western Band of Cherokees known as the 'Old Settlers.' Following the removal of the major portion of the Cherokees to Oklahoma, William Holland Thomas, a non-Indian who had been adopted into the Cherokee tribe, served as the attorney for those Cherokees remaining in the East in order to secure the money that was their due under the terms of the Treaty of New Echota, and to obtain permission for them to live in their native mountains. This article describes the results of his efforts in dealing with the United States government on behalf of the Cherokee people.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Judicial authority
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Delores Walters ; 1988: John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1785-1865
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Carolina and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard W. Iobst
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78013222
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians