Indian Justice: A Cherokee Murder Trial at Tahlequah in 1840

by John Howard Payne

In Indian Justice, Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die.

Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806134208
• ISBN13: 9780806134208
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 7.9"