573. Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President, June 15, 1866, p. 10.
574. Letter of General Albert Pike, February 17, 1866; also letter of T. J. Mackey, June 4, 1866.
575. Letter of General Albert Pike, February 17, 1866.
576. Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President, June 15, 1866.
577. Ibid.
578. Letter of John Ross to O-poth-le-yo-ho-lo, September 19, 1861.
579. Report of Agent Cutler and Superintendent Coffin for 1862. See pages 135 and 138 of the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1862.
580. April 2, 1863.
581. Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1863, p. 24.
582. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV, p. 799.
583. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 727.
584. Letter of General J. J. Reynolds to Secretary of the Interior, June 28, 1865; printed in report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1865, p. 295.
585. Report of D. N. Cooley, president of the commission, dated October 30, 1865.
586. Report of D. N. Cooley, president of the commission, dated October 30, 1865.
587. Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1865, p. 36.
588. Report of Elijah Sells, superintendent of Indian Affairs, October 16, 1865.
589. September 13, 1865.
590. September 15, 1865.
591. September 16, 1865.
592. This objection to consolidation was afterwards withdrawn, and, based upon fuller information of the proposed plan, was most fully concurred in.
593. September 18, 1865.
594. Statement of Southern delegation at an interview held with Commissioners Cooley and Sells, March 30, 1866. They also proposed that a census be taken and each man be allowed to decide whether or not he would live under the jurisdiction of the Ross party.
595. Statement of loyal delegation at interview held with Commissioners Cooley and Sells, March 30, 1866.
596. Sundry interviews between Commissioners Cooley and Sells and the loyal and Southern delegations, from March to June, 1866.
597. June 13, 1865.
598. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV, p. 799.
599. See preamble to treaty of July 19, 1833.
600. John Ross, or Kooeskoowe, was of mixed Scotch and Indian blood on both father's and mother's side. His maternal grandfather was John Stuart, who for many years prior to the Revolutionary war was British superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern tribes and who married a Cherokee woman. He was born about 1790 in that portion of the Cherokee Nation within the present limits of Georgia, and died in Washington, D. C., August 1, 1866. As early as 1813 Ross made a trip to the Cherokee country west of the Mississippi, ascending the Arkansas River to the present limits of Indian Territory, and wrote a detailed account of the situation and prospects of his brethren, the character of the country, etc. In 1820 (and perhaps earlier) he had become president of the Cherokee national committee, and continued so until the adoption of a constitution by the Cherokee Nation, July 26, 1827. Of this constitutional convention Mr. Ross was the president, and under its operation he was elected principal chief, a position which he continued to hold until his death.
601. May 11, 1872. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 98.
602. April 29, 1874. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVIII, p. 41.
603. February 28, 1877. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 265.
604. See treaty of April 27, 1868. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 727.
605. See report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Secretary of Interior, March 1, 1867, transmitting the agreement.
606. October 9, 1867.
607. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 727.
608. See Indian Office records.
609. See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs for 1870, p. 376.
610. See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs for 1871, p. 671.
611. August 11, 1871.
612. 5,019.91