The Southern Cherokee Delegation
The Southern Cherokee delegation to Washington in 1866 was sent to
negotiate a new treaty with the United States at the end of the American
Civil War. L to R: John Rollin Ridge (son of John Ridge), Saladin Watie (son
of Stand Watie), Richard Fields, Elias C. Boudinot (son of Elias Boudinot, i.e.
Buck Oowatie), and William Penn Adair. Delegates not pictured were Stand
Watie and Joseph A. Scales.
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