Unavoidable Fate Quotes
This line from one of O’Neill’s characters was adopted for a History Masthead Slogan. See XXX.
The treaty turned over the Cherokee Tribal Lands and agreed that the tribe would relocate to Oklahoma and obtain new lands there. The vast majority of the Cherokee chose to reject this treaty and insist that the Federal Government adhere to the Previous Treaty that was in force and maintain the Cherokee on their traditional land in the East. Ridge and some of his group made a lot of money and obtained much attention from the whites pushing for removal—President Andrew Jackson for example. But Jackson, using soldiers and force, pushed the Cherokee on the “Trail of Tears” at gun and bayonet point. After the Cherokee had arrived in Oklahoma, and Ridge and his family had set up in rather elegant quarters, he was assassinated by the other Cherokee’s after having been found guilty under traditional Cherokee laws.
