Editing Cherokee Outlet (section)

==Creation==
In 1836, the [[Treaty of New Echota]] between the Cherokees and the United States obligated the Cherokees to move west of the Mississippi River to lands assigned them in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). Their new lands included a 7.0-million-acre reservation and "a perpetual outlet west...as far west as the sovereignty of the United States" extended. The parcel of land extending west from the Cherokee reservation became known as the Cherokee Outlet. Under the terms of the treaty, the lands ceded to the Cherokees would "in no future time be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory" and the Cherokees were promised a [[land patent]]  verifying their ownership of the land.<ref>Smith, Chadwick and Teague, Faye (Winter 1993), "The Response of the Cherokee Nation to the Cherokee Outlet Centennial Celebration: A Legal and Historical Analysis," ''Tulsa Law Review,'', Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 272–274</ref><ref name="EOHC-Opening">{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Alvin O.|title=Cherokee Outlet Opening|url=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH021|website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, www.okhistory.org|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=May 20, 2016|date=2009}}</ref>

In 1838, in what is called the [[Cherokee removal]] or [[Trail of Tears]], most of the Cherokees, living primarily in northern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], were forcibly relocated to Indian territory and their new lands. A census in 1835 had counted 16,500 Cherokees.<ref>McLouglin, William G. (Dec 1977), "The Cherokees in Transition: A Statistical Analysis of the Federal Cherokee Census of 1835," ''The Journal of American History'', Vol. 64, No. 3, p. 678.</ref>