to this day they find lodgment in
some degree in the breasts of their descendants." 2
Two months after the signing of the treaty of July 8, 1817, and
three months before its ratification, a council of the nation sent a dele-
gation to Washington to recount in detail the improper methods and
influences which had been used to consummate it. and to ask that it be
set aside and another agreement substituted. The mission was without
result. 3
In 1817 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
established its first station among the Cherokee at Brainerd, in Ten-
nessee, on the west side of Chickamauga creek, two miles from the
Georgia line. The mission took its name from a distinguished pioneer
worker among the northern tribes (37). The government aided in the
erection of the buildings, which included aschoolhouse, gristmill,
and workshops, in which, besides the ordinary branches, the boys were
taught simple mechanic arts while the girls learned the use of the
' Royce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 217-218, 1888.
•Ibid., pp. 218-219. "Ibid., p. 219.
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needle and the spinningwheel. There was also a large work farm.
The mission prospered and others were established at Willstown,
Hightower, and elsewhere by the same board, in which two hundred
pupils were receiving instruction in L820. ] Among the earliest and
most noted workersat the Brainerd mission were Reverend I). S. But
trick and Reverend S. A. Worcester {'■'■*<). the latter especially having
done much for the mental elevation of the Cherokee, and more than once
having suffered imprisonment for his zeal in defending their cause.
The missions flourished until broken up