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Subject: Payments to people involved with the Trail of Tears
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:14:57 EDT

It looks like the last link I sent may had had had some problems
I hope this helps

Angela



_http://www.turtletown.org/html/senate.htm_
(http://www.turtletown.org/html/senate.htm)

Trail of Tears Senate Report - 1839


The trail of tears is the watershed event in tribal-american history. One
fact is irrefutable, the native americans were moved from where they lived to a
place that was decided for them. The largest body of the Cherokee people were
moved from the lands in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and North Carolina to
eastern Oklahoma. This document is a report to the Senate of the US and is
finally issued to them on February 25, 1839 for review. The rosters are very
interesting. The first roster is made up of the people the government paid to
"escort" the Cherokees to Oklahoma....and a number of them are Cherokee
themselves. The second list is an accounting of monies owed or paid to Cherokees who
were expatriated. The listings are extensive comprising of over a thousand
names of beneficiaries of payment for lost properties in the East. We have no
evidence that these monies were ever paid, but we have evidence that they were
listed and the amounts they were owed was listed with them. A fertile ground
for geneology researchers. To our knowledge, this is the only copy of this
document on the net, transcribed or otherwise. Release is given to use these
documents as you see fit. Information is only powerful when it is in the hands
of people. Copy them, download them, use them as you wish. Compliments of
Turtletown.org and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, where this document now
resides in their archives.

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