John Ross (1790-1866), photographed here in 1858, was a principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, leading the opposition to federal removal of the southeastern Indians to what is now Oklahoma.
John Ross
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Print by McKenney and Hall from the Birmingham Public Library, Tutwiler Collection of Southern History and Literature
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