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[[Lined out: it was again thought expedient unclear to make use of him & he was used. A decoy was wanted to betray the Indians into a new unclear sale of a part of their country.]]

Doublehead began to feel presently that he had lost the respect of his own people. He was therefore the more ready to become a word scratched out tool of the American Agents, especially as he was rewarded liberally and had no other satisfaction left to sustain him. X John D. Chisholm had words scratched out acquiesced in the American policy regarding the Indians, by allowing himself to be enticed words scratched out west of the Mississippi. A new encroachment upon the Cherokee word lined out territory had now become desireable. Chisholm, Sevier and James Rodgers words lined out appeared among their ancient brethren. Their object was to dispose of what they chose to call their proportion of their native land, in order to decoy others into a Treaty. Nine words scratched out A treaty was vamped up by these persons at the Cherokee Agency on the 8th of July, 1817; Eight words scratched out

    James Vann, with all his errors? was disinterested and a patriot. Against Doublehead the whole nation was exasperated. Vann