2021, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians chose their own delegate—attorney Victoria Holland—arguing that they are successors to the Cherokee people who signed the treaty. See also Cherokee removal (Trail of Tears) Timeline of Cherokee removal Notes References Blankenship, Bob. Cherokee Roots, Volume 1: Eastern Cherokee Rolls. (Cherokee: Bob Blankenship, 1992). Contains the 1835 Henderson Roll of the Cherokee Nation East. Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838. (Kingsport: Southern Publishers, 1938). Haywood, W.H. The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from its Earliest Settlement up to the Year 1796. (Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Publishing House, 1891). "Just Another Savage" (pseud). Jesus Wept: An American Story, of Struggle, Sacrifice, Faith and Hope. (USA: 2009) Klink, Karl, and Talman, James, ed. The Journal of Major John Norton. (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1970). McLoughlin, William G. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992). Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee. (Nashville: Charles and Randy Elder-Booksellers, 1982). Moore, John Trotwood and Foster, Austin P. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769–1923, Vol. 1. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923). Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Fayetteville: Indian Heritage Assn., 1967). Wardell, Morris L. A Political History of the Cherokee Nation, 1838–1907. Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. New York: Macmillan Company, 1970. External links The text of the treaty Chieftains historical marker 1835 in the United States Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) New Echota Treaties involving territorial changes 1836 treaties Trail of Tears December 1835 events