a treaty was concluded at Washington with the
representatives of the Cherokee Nation west by which the rights of
the East Cherokee to a participation in the benefits of the New Echota
treaty of L835 were distinctly recognized, and provision was made for
a final adjustment of all unpaid and pending claims due under that
treaty. The right claimed by the Hast Cherokee to participate in the
The facta concerning Junaluska are from the author's information obtained from i tolonel Tl m*.
i 'aptain James Terrell, and Cherokee informants.
- Author's information from Colonel rh as.
'Commissioner Crawford, November25, Report <>( Indian Commission! i
•Author's informiitic.n from Colonel Thomas, Captain Terrell, and Indian sources; Commissi rW.
Medill, Report of Indian Commissioner, p. 399, 1848; i lommissioner Orlando Broun. Report of Indian
Commissioner for 1849, p. 14, 1850.
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benefits of the New Echota treaty, although not denied by the gov-
ernment, had been held to be conditional upon their removal to the
West. 1
In the spring of L848 the author. Lanman, visited the East Chero-
kee and has left an interesting account of their condition at the time,
together with a description of their ballplays, dances, and customs
generally, having been the guest of Colonel Thomas, of whom he
speaks as the guide, counselor, and friend of the Indians, as well as
their business agent and chief, so that the connection was like that
existing between a father and his children. He puts the number of
Indians at about sou Cherokee and 100 Catawba on the "Quallatown"
reservation — the name being in use thus early — with '200 more Indians
residing in the more westerly portion