Court of the
United States, nearly a year before, that his imprisonment was a violation of the law
of tin.' land. The Cherokee Phcenix having been suspended and the Cherokee Nation
brought into disorder by the extension over it of the state laws, lie then returned to
Brainerd, which was beyond the limits of Georgia. In 1835 he removed to the Indian
Territory, whither the Arkansas ( Jherokee had already gone, and after short sojourns
at Dwight and Union missions took up his final residence at Park Hill in December,
1S30. He had already set up his mission press at Union, printing both in the ( Siero-
kee and the Creek languages, and on establishing himself at Park Hill lie began a
regular series of publications in the Cherokee language. In 1843 he states that "at
Park Hill,the way of translating in which he had not a share."
He also began a ( Iherokee geography and had both a grammar and a dictionary of
the language under way when his work was interrupted by his arrest. The manu-
scripts, with all his personal effects, afterward went down with a sinking steamer on
the Arkansas. His daughter, Mrs A. E. W. Robertson, became a missionary among
the Creeks and has published a number of works in their language. Authorities:
Pilling, bibliography of the Iroquoian languages (articles Worcester, Cherokee
Phienix, etc. i, 1SSS; Drake, Indians, ed. 1880: Report of Indian Commissioner, 1843
( Worcester letter).
i Mil) Death penalty for selling lands (p. 107): In 1820 the Cherokee Nation
enacted a law making it treason punishable with death to enter into any negotiation
for the sale of tribal