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To the Cherokee Citizens of Amohee District. Beloved Friends, Mr J. RIdge, in a late letter to our principal chiefs, says - "Yesterday the Secretary of War told me that Jack Walker & James Starr, had told him, that the Cherokees on the Tenesee side were disposed to treat for that part?, and that they were in the majority there; and that they also believed that the same disposition prevailed in the limits of North Carolina." The Secretary of War also said "That these men would shortly be first back with a message that the government was willing to hold treaties separately with the Cherokees, in the various chartered limits respectively. Whenever a majority were disposed to do so, that force would not be applied" ?. Our beloved Chief has sent an extract of Mr Ridge's letter to our district, with a communication of his own, requesting us to take such steps as we may deem prudent to counteract those statements of Mr's? Walker & Starr & guard against any artifices? that may be used to divide & distract our people to this effect. We have therefore thought proper to send this circular into the different parts of the district, and that all our fellow citizens may have an opportunity of making known their feelings of expressing their attachment, to the government of our choice & the land of our fathers. These have been declared by the Supreme Court of the United States as belonging to us, as our proper rights. Those who put their names to this paper will do as much as to say, that they hold fast to the councel of their own chiefs; and seeing that no individuals have a right to make a Treaty, that right being rested in the lawful council of the nation, they are determined never to make, nor to attempt to make, a treaty respecting land, with any man or body of man; but continue to act, as they have ever acted, as loyal subjects of their own government. - May 8th, 1832. Ewing? Snake Hair Conrad Long Shell Bend About The Ridge Tar chee chee Alexander Drumfold? George Ewing? Snake The Bellows Beans & Hominy Four Killer Arch Shell Stand Shell Water Eye Shell Blossoms Falling Big bone Snake Turn Over Two Fathom Black Fox Pass By Choon hogy? Clawaker Terapen Sitting Down John Boston Trotting Wolf Dan? Hopkins Henry Seabott Wm Williams Maxwell Chambers Arch Murphy Wolf Murphy Pelican Tiger Being? Timberley Path Killer Spirit Dog Oone-chee-ghistee? Jack Leach Dry Pigeon Lifter James Hair Red Bird Human Tracker Mistaken Gaits? Oojehkee? Moses Grits White Man Killer Kettle Tyer? John Bray Wallis Rattcliff Little Turkey Cat Coming Deer Whirlwind Hunter Johnson Culfowee? Eli Big Jim Johnson Murphy Knob Juwalookee Tayahsteys?-Kay Moses Path Killer Cousin Culfowee? Young Wolf Wiley Watters