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Light House Guard
The council (Cherokee) had established the first national police force, later known as the Light House Guard, tasked initially with suppressing horse stealing and eventually with enforcing the council's decisions. -
ABCFM
Cherokee allowed Moravian missionaries to establish a school among them, most notably from the influential American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. -
Andrew Jackson
He returned to the Tennessee militia, where he reached the rank of major general. -
National Legal Code
The most important council decisions began to be written down as a national legal code, in the formal English of legislation -
Sequoyah
He devise a system of written symbols to represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. -
Tecumseh
Tecumseh believed that if all western tries formed a united military front against the United States, they could prevent it from taking any more of their land and could preserve their traditional ways of life -
Death
Tecumseh was killed that year, fighting alongside British against the United States. The ideas among the Cherokee seems to have died with him. -
Confrontation
The Ridge confrontation a large meeting of Cherokee who wanted to join with Tecumseh, telling the bluntly that to do so :would lead us to war with the United States, and we should suffer." -
Red Stick
Red Stick faction attacked For Mims in Alabama, killing hundreds, Jackson led his militia into Alabama to avenge their deaths. -
Jackson and his Native American allies
Jackson and his Native American allies smashed the Red Sticks, -
Treaty of Fort Jackson
Creeks agree to the Treaty of Fort Jackson -
Exchange for Cherokee lands
THe Madison administration awarded them a new treaty that granted them the contested lands, plus $25,500 for damages done by Jackson's militia in the Creek War, in exchange for some Cherokee Lands in South Carolina. -
Agreement
President Monroe sent Jackson to the government's Cherokee Agency in Tennesse to negotiate with both the eastern Cherokee and the Arkansas Cherokee, those who had taken up President Jefferson's offer to move west year before. -
treaty of 1817
The Senate approved the treaty on December 11, 1817. -
Disagreement
The new Cherokee National Committee president John Ross led a delegation to Washington with aim of revising the 1917 treaty. -
Cherokee independence
The Cherokee had established their own system of district courts and marshals. -
John Forsyth
John Forsyth approved a law asserting that all Cherokee laws were null and that beginning in June 1830 the Cherokee lands would be subject to state law and annexed to nearby counties. -
Gold
The threat to the Cherokee grew more serious in mid-1829 after gold vein was discovered running through their territory. -
Fighting back
The Cherokee began fighting back, when Major Ridge led a Council-approved force to oust settlers from Cherokee homes near the Alabama border and burn down buildings so they could not return.