The first stop is former Cherokee Chief Major Ridge’s home in Rome, Georgia. Originally named “Ca-nung-da-cla-geh,” which roughly translated to “ridge,” the Cherokee chief gained the ...

John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee holdings in what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library ...

Principal Chief Ross insisted that the Cherokee ... at the hands of their fellow Cherokee. Major Ridge was ambushed and shot while travelling in Arkansas, checking on an ill slave.

Viles, Jr. A picture of Chief John Ross and Major John Ridge, though opposing politicians of their time as Cherokee leaders have a place of prominence for the Tulsa attorney. Viles, whose mother ...

Chief John Ross arrived in Oklahoma in January 1839; in less than six months as an results of a plan without equal in Cherokee history, Major John Ridge, John Ridge Jr., and Elias Boudinot lay dead.

Major Ridge had fought with General Andrew Jackson ... major advocate of and aid to Cherokee removal, opposed by Cherokee Principle Chief John Ross, whom Jackson and company impugned as a half ...

proposing to cede Cherokee land in Georgia and to have Cherokees in other states become U.S. citizens. By then, the rift between Ross and Major Ridge was widening: when Ridge heard of the chief ...