east of the Chattahoochee, and the other in Tennessee.
between Waldens ridge ami the Little Sequatchee — as an equivalent
for a tract to he assigned to those who had already removed, or
intended to remove, to Arkansas. Two smaller tracts on the north
bank of the Tennessee, in the neighborhood of the Muscle shoals.
were also ceded. In return for these cessions the emigrant Cherokee
were to receive a tract within the present limits of the state of Arkan-
■ Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Aim. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 202-204, 1888; see also Indian
Treaties, pp. 209-215, 1887. The preamble to the treaty of 1817 snys thut the delegation of 1808 had
de treda division of the tribal territory in order that the people of the Upper (northern townt might
"begin the establishment of fixed lawsand « regular government," while those of tin- Lower
(southern) towns desired t.. remove t" the West Nothing i- said of severalty allotments >>r
citizenship.
mooney] TREATY OF CHEROKEE AGENCY — 1817 103
sas, bounded on the north and south by White river and Arkansas
river, respectively, on the east l>y a line running between those
.streams approximately from the present Ratesville to Lewisburg. and
on the west by a line to lie determined later. As afterward estab-
lished, this western line ran from the junction of the Little North
Fork with White river to just beyond the point where the present
western Arkansas boundary strikes Arkansas river. Provision was
made for taking the census of the whole Cherokee nation east and
west in order to apportion annuities and other payments properly in
the future, and the two hands were still