[Indian Affairs] [Indian Territory] Report: The Committee On Territories, To Whom Was Referred The Bill To Establish And Organize The Territories Of Cha-Lah-Kee, Muscogee, And Cha-Ta,...

MR. JOHNSON

Publication: 1854, Washington

First Edition. Disbound. 31pp. "In order more fully to extend the protection of the Constitution and laws of the United States over the Cherokee, Muscogee or Creek, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations or tribes of Indians, and to enable them to advance in civilization, and hereafter become citizens of the United States, the bill, as amended, provides for the erection (with the assent of these several nations) into Territories of the country which they own and occupy, and certain other country to be annexed thereto. The Territory of Chah-ta is to consist entirely of the lands owned by absolute grant from the United States by the Choctaws and Chickasaws. That of Muscogee, of those owned by the Creeks and Seminoles, and that of Chelokee of those owned by the Cherokees south of the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, and lands west of the same to the one hundredth parallel of west longitude. Near Fine.

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