Eastern and Western Cherokees
Act of Union –
Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation
Published By Authority of the National Council, 1875
300 pages, indexed
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"Whereas, our fathers have existed as a separate and distinct Nation, in the possession and exercise of the essential and appropriate attributes of sovereignty, from a period
extending into antiquity, beyond the records and memory of man ; and. whereas these attributes, with the rights and franchises which they involve, remain still in full force
and virtue; as do also the national and social relations of the Cherokee people to each other, and to the body politic, excepting in those particulars which have grown
out of the provisions of the treaties of 1817 and 1819, between the United States and the Cherokee Nation, under which a portion of our people removed to this
country, and became a separate community; but the force of circumstances have recently compelled the body of the Eastern Cherokees to remove to this country,
thus bringing together again the two branches of the ancient Cherokee family; it has become essential to the general welfare that a Union should be formed and a system
of government matured, adapted to their present condition, and providing equally for the protection of each individual in the enjoyment of all his rights.
Therefore, we, the people composing the Eastern and Western Cherokee Nation, in national convention, assembled, by virtue of our original and unalienable rights, do
hereby solemnly and mutually agree to form ourselves into one body politic, under the style and title of the Cherokee Nation."
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