Cherokee citizenship. By articles L5 and 16
permission was given tin 1 United States to settle friendly Indians
within the Cherokee home country or the Cherokee strip by consent
and purchase from the Nation. By article 17 the Cherokee sold the
800,000-acre tract in Kansas secured by the treaty of 1835, together
with a two-mile strip running along the southern border of Kansas,
and thereafter to be included within the limits of that state, thus leav-
ing the Cherokee country as it was before the recent cession of the
Cherokee strip. Payment was promised for spoliations by United
States troops during the war; and $3,000 were to be paid out of the
Cherokee funds to the Reverend Evan Jones, then disabled and in
poverty, as a reward for forty years of faithful missionary labors.
By article 26 ""the United Statesguarantee to the Cherokees the quiet
and peaceable possession of their country and protection against
domestic feuds and insurrection as well as hostilities of other tribes.
They shall also be protected from intrusion by all unauthorized citi-
zens of the United States attempting to settle on their lands or reside
in their territory." 3
The missionary, Reverend Evan Jones, who had followed the Cher-
okee into exile, and his son, John B. Jones, had been admitted to
Cherokee citizenship the year before by vote of the Nation. The act
conferring this recognition recites that "we do bear witness that they
have done their work well."*
John Ross, now an old man, had been unable to attend this treaty,
being present at the time in Washington on business for his people.
Before its ratification he died in that city on August 1,