"The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory." The Northern Cherokee Nation is the only tribe of Indians which has been officially recognized by the Missouri government with a Missouri House of Representatives Resolution and a Governor's Proclamation. (see copies of these and the ones from Arkansas on our links). In 1721 our forebears, started moving west of the Mississippi as English encroachers began taking away our eastern homelands along with our freedoms. During the time of French and Spanish occupation of the Louisiana Territory many of our ancestors first settled in the area of what is now southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas. In time our kinsmen who remained in the east referred to us as the "Lost Cherokee." (U.S. Bur. of Ethnology, 19th annual Rpt., pgs 391 & 392) By 1799, portions of what are now St. Louis and St. Charles counties were deeded to some of our forebearers by Spanish land grants. After the Louisiana purchase of 1803 they were forced from these properties by the United States government (may we add this was in violation of Article VI of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty). Some refugees of this forced removal then migrated into what are now Boone, Howard, Franklin, Randolph, and Macon counties of Missouri. The thousands of Cherokee people now living in central Missouri represent only a small portion of Lost Cherokee descendants who in  time settled all over the western watershed of the Mississippi. Because we have long been dispersed throughout what used to be the Louisiana Territory and due to the fact our Nation has lived in this area since Spanish and French occupation, we now call our tribe: "The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory." Our effort is to make our people aware that their government west of the Mississippi has continued to exist since before the Louisiana Purchase and that we are eager for all Northern Cherokees to re-identify themselves with the nation of their roots. Twenty years before the "Trail of Tears" (November 2, 1819), John Ross wrote of our Nation in a letter to James Monroe, President of the United States. In the letter Ross referred to our people west of the Mississippi as "The Cherokees on the St. Francis River (located in what is now SE Missouri and NE Arkansas) who  had moved there great many years before." John Ross later became chief of the Old Cherokee Nation in the Southeast. It should be mentioned that the United States government recognized our nation in the early 1800s. One evidence of this is that Indian Agent Samuel Treat was assigned to our Cherokee people. Agent Treat was succeeded in 1813 by Agent William L. Lovely. After the Arkansas Reservation was set up in accordance with the Treaty of 1817, the Indian Agents were assigned to the new reservation and the United States government evidently chose to ignore and forget our people. It is our present effort to re-establish the forgotten Federal Recognition of our nation. Soon after statehood, Missouri passed legislation in 1838 which in effect outlawed  Native Americans from living in the state. Rather than be forced to an Oklahoma reservation, many of our people chose to dress and behave like the whites in order to conceal their identity. The many of our nation who continued  to reside in Missouri had to maintain our Cherokee affairs and heritage in secret. Much suffering occurred during the many years this law stayed on the books. We remain proud of our Cherokee heritage and cannot permit anyone to deny us our birthright, though many have tried to destroy our heritage. From ancient times we call ourselves, "Ani Yunwiya," which means, "The Principal People". American principles of social and political equality are only part of our ancient Cherokee way. Without Americans like the Cherokee, the world may never have learned the principles of participatory democracy. A book about our Northern Cherokee Nation is scheduled to be released this Fall from Turner Publishing. See links for the order form or you may click *HERE*. Written by: Nancy Jackson member of the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory House Concurrent Resolution State Of Arkansas 1997 Resolution of the Missouri House of Representatives March 8, 1984 Office of the Governor State of Missouri Mel Carnahan Governor June 20, 1996 Cape Girardeau State of Missouri June 17, 1997 A. M. Spradling III Mayor of Cape Girardeau Missouri Office of the Governor State of Missouri June 22, 1983 Christopher S. Bond Governor of Missouri Office of the Governor State of Arkansas March 5, 1997 Mike Huckabee Governor of Arkansas Sacred Pipe & Peace Trees Cherokee Osage Wyandots Beverly Baker Northup Principal Chief Northern Cherokee of Missouri Ed Red Eagle Assistant Principal Chief of the Oklahoma Osage Tribe Janeth K. English Principal Chief of the Kansas Wyandot Tribe September 27, 1997 Sacred Pipe & Peace Trees Southern Cheyenne & Northern Cherokee Nation Chief Charlie Little Coyote Chief of the Southern Cheyenne Nation Beverly Baker Northup Principal Chief Northern Cherokee Nation OLT Mike Ballard President, Shawnee County Allied Tribes September 3, 1999 Turner Publishing Company of Paducah Kentucky is currently Publishing a History Book of the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory...This Book will include the History of the NCNOLT as well as Family Stories and Pictures...This Book was due out in the fall of 2000, but due to the wealth of information that Turner Publishing obtained, this Book will be a large volume and they have now scheduled it to be released in the fall of 2001. To order your Copy of the Book click *HERE* An interview with Beverly Baker-Northup Principal Chief of the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory Open letter from Beverly Baker-Northup Principal Chief of NCNOLT Notice: It has been brought to my attention that there is a web sight titled "Chickamauga or Western Cherokee" that is soliciting Green Family members to enroll in a newly formed group calling themselves the "GREEN Band" Application To the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory. The NCNOLT rolls will be closed forever 1-1-2002 "NCNOLT Members and Friends"   Due to the confusion that is being caused by falsehoods and innuendo that continues to be propagated from Tom Simmons, Steve and Beki Shewmake I feel I need to respond with the following Kansas and Texas districts of the NCNOLT

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