Today in Chickamauga History - April 10
1792, April 10: Treaty of Walnut Hills. Between the Spanish Governor of New Orleans and the Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw, and Seminole in which the former promised the latter military protection.
1810, April 10: Laws: The Cherokee Nation, &C. – Be it known, That this day, the various clans or tribes which compose the Cherokee Nation, have unanimously passed an act of oblivion for all lives for which they may have been indebted, one to the other, and have mutually agreed that this evening the aforesaid act shall become binding upon every clan or tribe and the aforesaid cleans or tribes, have also agreed that if in future, and life should be lost without malice intended, the innocent aggressor shall not be accounted guilty.
Be it known, also, That should it so happen that a brother, forgetting his natural affection, should raise his hand in anger and kill his brother, he shall be accounted guilty of murder and suffer accordingly, and if a man has a horse stolen, and overtakes the thief and should his anger be so great as to cause him to kill him, let his blood remain on his own conscience, but no satisfaction shall be demanded for his life from his relative or the clan he may belong to.
By order of the seven clans.
Turtle at Home – Speaker of Council
Approved – Black Fox, Principal Chief
Path Killer Seconded
Toochaler
Charles Hicks, Secretary to the Council
Oostanallah, April, 10, 1810