by the state of Georgia at the
beginning of the Removal troubles, and they were afterwards renewed
in the western country. Mission ridge preserves the memory of the
Brainerd establishment.
Early in 1818 a delegation of emigrant Cherokee visited Washing-
ton for the purpose of securing a more satisfactory determination of
the boundaries of their new lands on the Arkansas. .Measures were
soon afterward taken for that purpose. They also asked recognition in
the future as a separate and distinct tribe, but nothing was done in the
matter. In order to remove, if possible, the hostile feeling between
the emigrants and the native Osage, who regarded the former as
intruders. Governor William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs
for Missouri, arranged a conference of the chiefs of the two tribes at
St. Louis in October of that year, at which, after protractedeffort, he
succeeded in establishing friendly relations between them. Efforts
were made about the same time, both by the emigrant Cherokee and
by the government, to persuade the Shawano and Delawares then
residing in Missouri, and the Oneida in New York, to join the western
Cherokee, but nothing- cameof the negotiations. 2 In 1825 a delegation
of western Cherokee visited the Shawano in < )hio for the same purpose,
but without success. Their object in thus inviting friendly Indians to
join them was to strengthen themselves against the Osage and other
native tribes.
In the meantime the government, through Governor McMinn, was
bringing- strong pressure to bear upon the eastern Cherokee to compel
their removal to the West. At a council convened by him in November,
L818, the governor represented to the chiefs that it was now no longer
possible to protect