settled alone- the northern bank of
the Arkansas and on Verdigris river, on lands later found to he
within the limits of the territory assigned to the western Cherokee
by the treaty of L828. This led to jealousies and collisions between
■ Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Aim. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, !■. 248, 1888.
2 For a sketch of Tahchee, with portraits, see McKenney and Hall, i, pp.
American Indians ii, pp. 121,122, 1844. Washburn also mentions the emigration to Texas
upon the treaty of 1828 i Reminiscences, p. -ii'. 1869).
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the two tribes, and in order to settle the difficulty the United States
convened a joint council of ("recks and Cherokee at Fort Gibson, with
the result that separate treaties were concluded with each on February
14. 1833, defining- their respective bounds tothe satisfaction of all
concerned. By this arrangement the upper Verdigris was confirmed
t<> the Cherokee, and the Creeks who had settled along that portion of
the stream agreed to remove to Creek territory immediately adjoining
on the south.'
By the treaty made on this occasion with the Cherokee the bound-
aries of the tract of seven million acres granted by the treaty of L828
are denned so as to correspond with the present boundaries of the
Cherokee country in Indian territory, together with a strip two miles
wide along the northern border, which was afterward annexed to the
state ot' Kansas liy the treaty of 1866. A tract in the northeastern
corner, between Neosho or Grand river and the Missouri line, was set
apart for the use of the Seneca and several other remnants of tribes
removed from their original