1880; Bee also Everett speech .»■" May 31, 1888, op. cit.
-Royce, op. cit., pp. :M i m [>n .[..,■! ii is:>.
124 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE Leth.ann.19
for bringing about a friendly understanding between the two tribes;
and for the commutation of all annuities and other sums due from the
■United States into a permanent national fund, the interest to be placed
at the disposal of the officers of the Cherokee Nation and by them
disbursed, according to the will of their own people, for the care of
schools and orphans, and for general national purposes.
The western territory assigned the Cherokee under this treaty was
in two adjoining tracts, viz, (1) a tract of seven million acres, together
with a "perpetual outlet west." already assigned to the western
Cherokee under treaty of 1833, as will hereafter be noted,1 being
identical with the present area occupied by the Cherokee Nation in
Indian Territory, together with the former "Cherokee strip," with
the exception of a two-mile strip along the northern boundary, now
included within the limits of Kansas; (2) a smaller additional tract of
eight hundred thousand acres, running fifty miles north and south
and twenty-five miles east and west, in what is now the southeastern
corner of Kansas. For this second tract the Cherokee themselves
were to pay the United States five hundred thousand dollars.
The treaty of 1833, assigning the first described tract to the western
Cherokee, states that the United States agrees to "guaranty it to
them forever, and that guarantee is hereby pledged." By the same
treaty, "in addition to the seven millions of acres of land thus pro-
vided for and bounded, the United States