<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893</dc:creator><dc:date>1840-02-20</dc:date><dc:description>This is a letter, dated February 21, 1840, from William Holland Thomas to Andrew Taylor. Thomas discusses matters relative to Eastern Cherokee claims, especially the policies pursued by Principal Chief John Ross and their impact on payment to the Cherokees East.</dc:description><dc:description>Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.</dc:description><dc:format>text/html</dc:format><dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format><dc:identifier>wt169</dc:identifier><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:publisher>Manuscript held by the  Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN,  MS2058 William Holland Thomas , box 1, folder 1, document wt169.</dc:publisher><dc:relation>Mode of access: World Wide Web.</dc:relation><dc:relation>System requirements: AT&amp;T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Cherokee Indians--Claims</dc:subject><dc:subject>Cherokee Indians--Government relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States. Office of Indian Affairs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Ross, John, 1790-1866</dc:subject><dc:title>[Letter] 1840 Feb. 21, Washington City, [D.C. to] Andrew Taylor, Cleveland, Ten[nessee] / [William Holland Thomas] of an image</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>