Stand Watie and Elias Cornelius Boudinot of the Southern Cherokee delegation hoped to achieve separate status for a Southern Cherokee Nation and wanted the US government to pay for the relocation of Freedmen out of the Cherokee Nation.
Stand Watie hoped to achieve separate status for a Southern Cherokee Nation. Elias Cornelius Boudinot of the Southern Cherokee delegation hoped to achieve separate status for a Southern Cherokee Nation. Stand Watie wanted the US government. This was to pay for the relocation of Freedmen out of the Cherokee Nation. Elias Cornelius Boudinot of the Southern Cherokee delegation wanted the US government. This was to pay for the relocation of Freedmen out of the Cherokee Nation.