treatyofnewechota1835

After a winding trail of treaties designed to dispossess the Cherokee Nation of various parts of their land, the Treaty of New Echota represented the final blow to traditional Cherokee land rights. Dripping with paternalism, New Echota ceded all land possessed by the Cherokee Nation east of the Mississippi to the United States and reaffirmed the seven million acre and perpetual outlet commitments. The United States shall always have the right to make and establish such post and military roads and forts in any part of the Cherokee country, as they may deem proper for the interest and protection of the same and the free use of as much land, timber, fuel and materials of all kinds for the construction and support of the same as may be necessary…