USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The humiliated Indians could win peace only by surrendering vast tracts of territory in North and South Carolina at the Treaty of DeWitt’s Corner (May 20, 1777) and the Treaty of Long Island of Holston (July 20, 1777).

Detailed explanation-2: -On December 29, 1835, U.S. government officials and about 500 Cherokee Indians claiming to represent their 16, 000-member tribe, met at New Echota, Georgia, and signed a treaty. The agreement led to the forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the 1780s and 1790s, the Cherokee signed treaties with the United States to deflect the threats posed by these and other states, including Tennessee. The treaties may have involved land cessions, but they also acknowledged Cherokee territorial boundaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The treaties featured in Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, on loan from the National Archives and Records Administration, are representative of the approximately 374 that were ratified between the United States and Native Nations.