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Principles of our dealing with Indians

says "according to those principles, the Cherokee nation has the right to establish its own form of government, and to alter and amend it from time to time, according to its own sense of its own wants; to live under its own laws; to be exempt from the operation of the laws of the United States; and quietly to possess & enjoy its lands, subject to no other limitation than that, when sold, they can only be sold to the United States."

The principles of our dealing with Indians asserted more distinctly the law of May 28, 1830.

    Pursuant to these principles of dealing with the red men equitably, and in the same spirit of justice which guides our transactions with one another. Congress passed a law on the twenty eighth of May 1830, declaring, that certain lands west of the Mississippi may be exchanged by the President of the United States for those claimed and occupied by any Indians within the jurisdiction of the United States elsewhere, upon the following conditions, viz:

The law asserting the principles of our dealing with the Indians, secures payment to each tribe for its national domain in new lands west.

   To secure the lands thus given in exchange to the Indians by a patent, or otherwise, guaranteeing the lands solemnly to the Indians, their heirs and successors, until the Indians become extinct, or abandon the lands, in which case they revert to the United States.

The same law secures payment to the individuals of each tribe, for their improvements.

    In addition to such fair exchange of lands, with any tribe collectively, to pay specially for improvements belonging to individuals, as valued by appraisement or otherwise:
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