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	Cherokee Chief John Ross
		Cherokee law was declared null and void and Georgia law was established as the supreme law of the land.
		John Ross hope to have a star on the U.S. flag for the State of Cherokee was in vain.
		John Ross carried a petition to Washington with 15,000 signatures, 90 percent of all Cherokee, in protest.
	www.mindspring.com /~caruso/johnross.htm (1816 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Ross (1790-1866)
		Ross was born on October 3, 1790, in Turkey Town, on the Coosa River near present-day Center, Alabama.
		As Ross took the reins of the Cherokee government in 1827, white Georgians increased their lobbying efforts to remove the Cherokees from the Southeast.
		The discovery of gold on Cherokee land fueled their desire to possess the area, which was dotted with lucrative businesses and prosperous plantations like Ross's.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2887 (673 words)

	Chief John Ross
		John Ross stood so high in the eyes of his people that they called him Guwisguwi, the name of a rare migratory bird of large size and white or grayish plumage that had one time appeared at long intervals in the old Cherokee country.
		Ross Fought alongside Jackson and Sam Houston and Davy Crockett in the was of 1812, and at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, in a daring act of bravery, he swam the river to capture the Creek's canoes which were then used to effect an attack upon the enemy's fort.
		The constitution was predicated on the Cherokee assumed sovereignty and independence as one of the district nations of the earth.
	www.georgiatribeofeasterncherokee.com /chiefjohnross.htm (1003 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Chief John Ross, although himself a Methodist, was attentive to the counsel of Evan Jones, his son John B. Jones, Jesse Bushyhead, Lewis Downing, and Charles Thompson, each of whom was an ordained minister of the Baptist faith.
		Chief John Ross being absent in the East, the political affairs of the Union Cherokees were managed by a coterie of leaders, of whom Lewis Downing was the presiding spirit.
		Ross returned to Tahlequah for a brief period in the fall of 1865 but returned to Washington the next year to urge his protest against the approval of section nine of the treaty of June 19, 1866, wherein the Cherokees were required to adopt their former negro slaves into tribal membership.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v016/v016p315.html (3854 words)

	New World Celts
		John Ross was the first and only elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation from the time it was formed 1828 until his death in 1866.
		When future president and Cherokee oppressor Andrew Jackson called the Battle of Horseshoe Bend "one of the great victories of the American frontier," losing 50 men while killing 500 Creek men, women, and children, John Ross penned the words.
		Ross and others decided to make legal moves to prevent the forced removal including organizing the Cherokee tribe as a nation, with its own Constitution, patterned after the Constitution of the United States of America.
	www.newworldcelts.org /john_ross_cherokee_chief.htm (520 words)

	Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ross, recognizing the value of a good education, did everything that he could to help the missionaries in their effort to provide schooling for the Cherokee youth.
		John Ross was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1828, a position he would hold until his death in 1866.
		Chief Ross and the Cherokee National Council maintained that the document was a fraud and presented a petition with more than 15,000 Cherokee signatures to congress in the spring of 1838.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /NA-JohnRoss.html (1254 words)

	Ross Clan of New England -- Other Rosses
		Ross was elected chief in 1828 and would spend the rest of his life as chief.
		Chief Ross died in Washington City (Washington D.C.) on August 1, 1866, just after finalizing a treaty with the federal government that preserved a Cherokee government that had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
		George Washington Ross served the Cherokee Nation as secretary in 1865 and was clerk of the Tahlequah District Circuit Court in 1866.
	www.110.net /~pq1013/rossclan/other.htm (1435 words)

	Today in History: October 3
		Ross presided over the Cherokee Constitutional Convention and was elected principal chief by the Cherokee National Council in 1827.
		Ross made many trips to Washington, as representative of the majority of Cherokee, and successfully argued their case before the Supreme Court.
		See, for example, Miss Kitty Ross, daughter of a leading official of the Cherokee Nation, or a facsimile of Cherokee alphabet, developed by Sequoyah (1776-1843) and introduced to the Cherokee in 1821.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/oct03.html (1886 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		John Ross was the first and only elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation from the time it was formed until his death in 1866.
		The future Walker County was a hunting ground for both white and Cherokee raiding parties, strategically located midpoint between head of Coosa and Col. John Sevier's band of marauders from Tennessee.
		Ross was invaluable to Moravians who established a mission on the Federal Highway near present-day Brainerd, Tennessee.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /cmorrow/ui339/lectures/John_Ross.html (676 words)

	John Ross (Cherokee chief) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ross was born in Turkeytown, Alabama, along the Coosa River, near Lookout Mountain, to Mollie and Daniel Ross.
		The purpose of the delegation was to clarify the provisions of the Treaty of 1817.
		During the same period that Ross was negotiating in Washington on behalf of the Cherokee, the Cherokee Council began to pass a series of laws creating a bicameral national government and in 1822 created the Cherokee Supreme Court, capping the creation of a three branch government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief) (3144 words)

	Gayle Ross
		She is a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Ross, who was born in 1790 and was Principal Chief through the Trail of Tears (when most of the Cherokee in the Appalachian mountains were forced to walk to western lands) until his death in1866.
		Although Ross is not from Appalachia, she tells traditional tales that the Cherokee took with them when they were forced to move west from the southeastern mountains that had been their home for hundreds of years.
		Ross tells about adoption among native American people and tells a story that her adopted brother's Chippewa/Cree people told, which he shared with her, about the rainbow and flowers and a little girl who brought color into the world.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/bibs/ross.htm (2362 words)

	John Ross Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		John Ross (1790-1866), chief of the American Cherokee Indians, headed his tribe during the saddest era in its history, when it was removed from its ancestral lands to Oklahoma.
		John Ross was born near Lookout Mountain, Tenn., on Oct. 3, 1790.
		Ross became a leader of the faction of the tribe that opposed removal, and he led in challenging the state ruling before the U.S. Supreme Court.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-ross (493 words)

	Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		John Ross, the leader of the Anti-Treaty Party among the Cherokees, was born near the foot of Lookout Mountain, in east Tennessee, in 1793.
		In 1828, he was elected principal chief of the Cherokee tribe, an office which he held continuously until his death, nearly forty years later.
		He was the leader of the majority of the Cherokee people in their determined opposition to the proposed migration to the West.
	www.rootsweb.com /~oknowata/Ross.htm (237 words)

	Cherokee History
		Tuesday; We visited John Ross, the principal Chief, his house is a long two story building, inside has the appearance of neatness and elegance, here we crossed the Coosa, and passed the tomb of the Cherokee, who was so barberously murdered by the Georgians.
		Mrs Coody, is a native sister of John Ross, the principal Chief.
		Stand Watie, a three-quarter Cherokee Indian, was born on December 12, 1806 at the Cherokee town of Oothcalooga near present-day Rome, Georgia.
	www.scvcamp469-nbf.com /Cherokee.htm (2923 words)

	The Trail of Tears - Cherokee Indians forcibly removed from North Georgia
		In one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, then forced to march a thousand miles(Some made part of the trip by boat in equally horrible conditions).
		John Ross made an urgent appeal to Scott, requesting that the general let his people lead the tribe west.
		Chief John Ross, who valiantly resisted the forced removal of the Cherokee, lost his wife Quatie in the march.
	www.ngeorgia.com /history/nghisttt.html (1209 words)

	The Cherokee Trail of Tears - National Historic Trail - 1838-1839 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Cherokees were not allowed to conduct tribal business, contract, testify in courts against whites, or mine for gold.
		In August 1839, John Ross was elected Principal Chief of the reconstituted Cherokee Nation.
		John Ross: John Ross was elected Principal Chief in 1828.
	rosecity.net /tears/trail/tearsnht.html (1112 words)

	Chief John Ross
		Warrior: John Ross fought with General Andrew Jackson and 1000 other Cherokee against a large group of Creek Indians.
		Diplomat: In 1817 the U.S. government asked the Cherokee to cede all lands north of the Hiwassee River and to move West.
		The Cherokee were split between the Treaty Party, those willing to take what the government offered, and those like John Ross, who were against.John Ross hope to have a star on the U.S. flag for the State of Cherokee was in vain.
	members.tripod.com /DidahnediGakanehoi/johnross.html (1600 words)

	Chief John Ross Chapter DAR
		Chief John Ross Chapter, NSDAR, organized December 23, 1922, was named for John Ross, the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866.
		In 1815, John Ross established Ross's Landing on the banks of the Tennessee River; Ross's Landing became Chattanooga in 1838.
		In 1958, a bronze bust of Chief John Ross was placed on the northwest lawn of the Hamilton County Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
	www.rootsweb.com /~tncjrcd (161 words)

	Chief John Ross Numismatic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Chief John Ross Numismatic Society is a North Georgia coin club that was formed during the Silver boom in 1967.
		It is named after John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee from 1828 until his death in 1866.
		Chief John Ross was only one eighth Cherokee but was well respected by the Cherokee and the white man.
	cjrns.anaclubs.org (122 words)

	John Ross letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Cherokee nation was one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in the southeast, and Andrew Jackson planned their removal along with all other tribes existing east of the Mississippi River.
		Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota.
		In this letter, Chief Ross and the others state the case for the Cherokee majority.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4h3083.html (117 words)

	Scots around the world - Chief John Ross
		John Ross was chief of the Cherokee from 1828-1866, during some of the most turbulent times of their history.
		Chief Ross died in Washington City (Washington D.C.) on Aug. 1, 1866, just after finalizing a treaty with the federal government that preserved a Cherokee government that had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
		Elizabeth Ross was born March 25, 1789, and died Feb. 7, 1876.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/world/john_ross.htm (1123 words)

	John Ross
		He was the Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
		Some Cherokee had already ceded their land and had moved to the West.
		But John Ross had no intention of leaving -- he would lead the fight to protect the Cherokee and their Eastern lands.
	www.meredith.edu /nativeam/john_ross.htm (79 words)

	Ross House, Rossville, Georgia
		Built before the start of the 19th century by John McDonald, a Scottish trader of wandering loyalty, the Ross House is the oldest remaining structure in Northwest Georgia.
		When Mollie Ross died in 1808, her 18 year-old son John Ross moved to the home with his grandfather John McDonald.
		Ross had received much of his formal education in the home, along with the sons of other Cherokee and countrymen, whites who had been accepted into the Cherokee Nation.
	roadsidegeorgia.com /site/rosshouse.html (526 words)

	Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government.
		The State of Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1831 that the Cherokee Indian Nation was not a foreign nation and therefore ruled that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction.
		John Ross, Chief of the United Cherokee Nation from 1839 to 1866, was born on October 3, 1790.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html (509 words)

	The Trail of Tears in the Southeast Missouri Region Home Page - Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Principal Chiefs were elected, and the Beloved Woman was speaker for the Women's Council.
		Two-thirds of the ill-equipped Cherokee were trapped between the ice-bound Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during January, 1839.
		Cherokee Chief John Ross Courtesy: Archives and Manuscripts Divison of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
	rosecity.net /tears/trail/home.html (1683 words)

	History of the Cherokee
		Ross traveled to Washington to try to convince President Lincoln that the Confederate Treaty was signed under duress and the majority of Cherokee were loyal to the Union.
		While thousands of Loyal Cherokee refugees were starving in Kansas, the families of the Southern Cherokee were refugees in Texas and Arkansas.
		October 28, 1861: Declaration of the Alliance of the Cherokee Nation with the Confederate States of America by the Cherokee National Committee, National Council, and Chief John Ross.
	cherokeehistory.com /confed.html (494 words)

	hist0801
		The death of his second wife Mary did not deter Ross from attending theGrand Council of Southern Indians at Fort Smith in September 1865 where new treaties between Cherokee and the Federal government were prepared.
		John Ross continued his whole lifetrying to improve the lot of the Cherokee, his people.
		Chief Dragging Canoe and one thousand of his full-blood followers migrated to the western part of Tennessee and later to the State of Arkansas.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0801.html (3769 words)

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