The Treaty of Turkeytown, also known as the Treaty with the Cherokee and the Treaty of Chickasaw Council House (Cherokee) was negotiated on 14 September 1816, between delegates of the former Cherokee Nation on the one part and Major General

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, General David Meriwether and

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, Esq., who served as agents of the United States in the capacity of "commissioners plenipotentiary", on the other part. Conducted following the Creek War, the initial meeting was held at the

Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as ...

Council House and stipulated a further meeting on 28 September 1816, to be conducted at " Turkey's Town", on the Coosa River, near the present day town of

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, in

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. The treaty was ratified by the Cherokee Nation at Turkeytown on 4 October 1816, and signed by

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, then Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. The Treaty of Turkeytown ceded

Cherokee The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, t ...

lands in northwestern Alabama south of the Tennessee River and west of the Coosa River, 3500 square miles of land (2.24 million acres)Royce, Charles C. ''The Cherokee Nation'', p. 83 (Piscataway: Aldine Transaction, 2009). to the United States and provided for a one-time payment of $5,000 to the Cherokee to recompense for improvements that had made on the land; as well as an annuity of $6,000.00 per year for a term of ten years.

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Centre, Alabama is the countyseat of Cherokee County, Alabama. {{Cherokee Turkeytown Native American history of Tennessee Cherokee and United States treaties

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