ᏐᏉ ᎪᎳ ᎤᏒᎯ ᎠᏤᎯ ᎡᏦᏛ, ᎠᏂᎦᏲᏟ ᎤᏁᎾᎢ ᎠᏂRidge ᎠᏂᏍᎦᏯ, ᎤᎩᏓᏟᏅᏯ ᎨᎵ ᎤᎾᏓᏓᏍᎩᏌᏁ ᎠᏨᏍᏛ ᎦᏍᎩᎸ, ᎤᏁᎦ ᎪᏪᎵ ᎤᏂᏌᎡ, ᎤᏕᎳᏓ ᎤᏂᏍᏓᏱᏕ ᎧᏃᎮᏛ ᏓᏦᎯᏍᏛ, ᎤᏂᎾᏗᏅᏎᎴ ᎠᎹᏰᎵ ᏂᎦᏓ ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎦᏙ, ᎠᏁᎵᏍᎨ ᎣᏍᏓ ᎠᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬ, ᏳᏂᏃᎮᎸᎾ, ᎨᏥᎧᎯᏴᏍᏗ, ᎠᏤᎯ ᏳᏫᏯᏍᏗ ᎾᎿ ᎨᏒ.
One winter night in New Echota, a small roomful of wealthy Ridge men, Featherstone among them, huddled about a white paper centered on a candlelit table and autographed a secret nighttime treaty, selling all of the Nation to America under the most favorable terms they believed they could get and agreeing for all their people, without consultation, to remove to the new Indian Territories.