New Echota

NEW ECHOTA
Cherokee National Capital
The sprawling town of New Town which had
stood here since 1819 was designated the seat
of government for the new 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 the removal west.
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