Cherokee National Capital

The sprawling town of New Town which had stood here since 1819 was designated the seat Of government for the Cherokee Nation in A legislative act of 1825 and it was renamed New Echota for a former principal town in Tennessee. In its short history New Echota Was the site of the first Indian language Newspaper office, a court case which carried To the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the earliest Experiments in national self-government for An Indian tribe, the signing of a treaty which relinquished Cherokee claims to lands east of the Mississippi, and the assembly of Indians for removal west.

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Courtesy Georgia Historical Commission.

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