“This was a good treaty”

An observance takes place Saturday in Walhalla to recognize a 200-year old treaty between the U-S and the Cherokee Indians.  Luther Lyle, director and curator for the Museum of the Cherokee in South Carolina, brought a copy of the treaty to 101.7/WGOG today and called it a treaty that the Cherokees actually liked because it required the government to pay the Cherokees for their land and gave them the right to stay in the Carolinas.  But a subsequent treaty led to the infamous “Trail of Tears” in which the Cherokees were forced from their home land.  Everyone is invited to Saturday’s events, from 10 a-m to 2 p-m, at the museum on Walhalla’s Short Street and to hear the guest speaker, Hugh Lambert, a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokees.