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The Spanish reached the Cherokee village of Guasili.
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Approximately 22,000.
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Relations between settlers and Native Americans in southern New England degenerated into a brutal and exceedingly bloody conflict.
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The British and Cherokee were signing military and commercial treaties with each other.
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Limited dealings with Europeans beforehand.
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The British and the Cherokee fought together against the Tuscarora, another southeastern Native American tribe.
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About 10,000 - 12,000.
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The Cherokee signed their first treaty transferring land to the British.
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The Cherokee delegates assented to the articles terms.
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The ceded more than 68,000 square miles in nine treaties.
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The United States finally signs a comprehensive peace treaty with the Cherokee.
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The Cherokee sent a delegation to the national capital to complain about the ongoing treaty violations.
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The U.S. invaded Chickamaugan territory in northwest Georgia and destroyed their towns.
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President John Adams negotiated with the Cherokee and signed the First Treaty of Tellico.
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Many Georgians were outraged after the state legislature sold approximately 80,000 square miles of western land to wealthy speculators.
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A federal Indian agent named Return Jonathan Meigs secured four agreements with the Cherokee.
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President Jefferson offered an exchange of western lands for eastern ones to any Cherokee willing to leave their homelands.
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The Cherokee General Council named a committee of leaders to work out a mutually agreeable solution with the federal government.
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Major Benjamin Currey spoke to a committee from the tribe about a potential treaty with the United states.
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The committee members agreed to the Treaty of New Echota.
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The U.S. Senate put the Treaty of New Echota to a vote.