May 6, 1828

Pressure on the Western Cherokee by the federal government and the new Arkansas Territory eventually led to the Treaty of Washington, which ceded the Cherokee’s Arkansas lands to the United States. Most of the Western Cherokee moved to Indian Territory in northeast Oklahoma, leaving houses, farms, orchards, and mills to be occupied by the Anglo-Americans who came to the area.

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