John Ross: Address to the Cherokee Nation - Milestone Documents

John Ross: Address to the Cherokee Nation

( 1838 ) Commentary by Tim Alan Garrison, Portland State University and Kristin Teigen, Independent Scholar

“Here, homeless and outcasts, we are only for a short space to be permitted to take a passing view of the houses and farms we once inhabited & cultivated & the places in which we happily worshiped Almighty God.” - Address to the Cherokee Nation

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