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Obviously this operation to drive the trains to Manzanar and Tule Lake for operation New Echota will require a tremendous amount of materiel and labor.
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In 1835, some members of the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota, which traded their lands in Georgia for lands in Oklahoma.
A Duel of Disaster: Jackson vs. Bush | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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Hi-I am from calhoun Ga where the movie "Give me Liberty" was filmed on a cherokee Indian Reserve there called "New Echota" Many of my cousins were extras in the film-I remember being so excited sitting in front of the tv with popcorn just waiting to watch the made for TV movie I was 9 then it came on and there was no sound!
ROBERT CULP SOUNDS OFF Toby O'B 2010
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It lay but a few miles from New Echota—the former Cherokee capital, where in December 1835, Stand Watie, his brother Elias Boudinot and his uncle Major Ridge agreed to move the Cherokee nation west into Indian Territory, without the consent of chief John Ross.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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As well, the troupe included a little menagerie of Indians of several makes, a Seminole from Florida, a Creek, a Cherokee from Echota, and a Yemassee woman.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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As well, the troupe included a little menagerie of Indians of several makes, a Seminole from Florida, a Creek, a Cherokee from Echota, and a Yemassee woman.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Hooker's Twentieth Corps was also diverted to cross by the fords and ferries above Resaca, in the neighborhood of Echota.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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A wigwam, larger and more pretentious than most of the others in Echota, stood a little apart from the rest, and not far from the council-house.
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Echota was located on the northern bank of the Tellico, about five miles from the ruins of Fort Loudon, and thirty southwest from the present city of Knoxville.
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McPherson by Lay's Ferry, on the right, Thomas directly by the railroad, and Schofield by the left, by the old road that crossed the Oostenaula above Echota or Newtown.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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