The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_New_Echota" id="mwQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treaty of New Echota">Treaty of New Echota</a> is signed, ceding all the lands of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> east of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> to the United States.<sup about="#mwt42" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_29#cite_note-6" id="mwRQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwRg">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt39" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFVipperman1989">Vipperman, Carl J. (1989). "The Bungled Treaty of New Echota: The Failure of Cherokee Removal, 1836-1838". <i id="mwB_8">The Georgia Historical Quarterly</i>. <b id="mwCAA">73</b> (3): 540–558. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISSN_(identifier)" id="mwCAE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a><span id="mwCAI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0016-8297" id="mwCAM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">0016-8297</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./JSTOR_(identifier)" id="mwCAQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a><span id="mwCAU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40582016" id="mwCAY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">40582016</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt39" class="Z3988" id="mwCAc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Georgia+Historical+Quarterly&amp;rft.atitle=The+Bungled+Treaty+of+New+Echota%3A+The+Failure+of+Cherokee+Removal%2C+1836-1838&amp;rft.volume=73&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.pages=540-558&amp;rft.date=1989&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F40582016%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.issn=0016-8297&amp;rft.aulast=Vipperman&amp;rft.aufirst=Carl+J.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+29"></span></span>