Treaty of New Echota

The Treaty of New Echota was a removal treaty signed in New Echota, Georgia by officials of the United States government and several members of the so-called Ridge faction within the Cherokee Nation on December 29, 1835. The Ridge faction held that the Cherokee would lose their eastern lands sooner or later and that removal to the west was the only way to preserve the Nation. In the treaty, the United States agreed to pay the Cherokee people $4.5 million in compensation, cover the costs of relocation, and give them equivalent land in the Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma) in exchange for all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River. While the treaty was ratified by the United States Senate and enforced upon the Cherokee people, it was never signed by any official representative of the Cherokee Nation, and the Cherokee nation refused to recognize the validity of the treaty.
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