Land Lottery | Cherokee Nation

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Land Lottery | Cherokee Nation

In the 1830s, as Georgia continued to apply pressure on the Cherokee people to move west, land belonging to the Cherokee Nation was divided up into grids. Land parcels were eventually awarded to white settlers in a land lottery.
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