Show indians ind ians claim cla im big B ig area in in tennessee tennes see start suit in court for five million acres charlotte Cli arlotte N C claims to 10 recover acres of land embracing much of east tennessee and including city of chattanooga hai has been filed died by john U tailor taylor an attorney who Is a it full blood cherokee indian before the department of the interior for the eastern immigrant cherokees of oklahoma and horth carolina basing his claims upon ancient treaties trestles and the code of north carolina relating to the indians several thousand thou ennd of whom are still domiciled in this state the suits bave have been filed tied at murphy in cherokee county and in tennessee in support of his claim the attorney has filed certified copies of various treaties negotiated with ith the indians by the state of north carolina the claims are filed in behnle of taylor and over other redskins red skins ile has caused to be put into the record in both places where he filed claims a collection of papers on he the contents of which he expects to establish his cape case ills admission to the be bar as an attorney has also been filed taylor according to representative weaver of the tenth north carolina district at one time resided in cherokee county later removing to oklahoma in which state the main portion of the cherokee nation resides wearer weaver asserts that taylor has been in washington on numerous occasions as a representative of the cherokee in diana the attorney insists that the indians are entitled to interest amounting to copy of cod code filed among the voluminous papers filed in the case Is a certified copy of an act from the code of north carolina of 1783 in which it Is recited that the cherokee indians shall have and enjoy that tract of land bounded as follow follows to wit beginning on the tennessee river where the southern boundary of nt the state intersects the same nearest the chickamauga towns thence up the middle of the tennessee and holston rivers to the middle of the french broad river thence up the french broad river which lines are not to include any islands in said river to the mouth of the big pigeon river thence op up the same to the head thereof thence along the dividing ridge between the water of the pigeon and hith rivers to the southern boundary of the state and the lands contained in the aforesaid bounds shall be reserved to the said cherokee indians and their nation forever any thing hereinbefore to alie contrary not withstanding includes chattanooga the chickamauga towns referred to in the act were in the vicinity of what Is BOW now the city of chattanooga ond and the territory involved will I 1 include elude a practically all of the area of that tennesse metropolis taylor also sets up claim to acres which he be asserts he lie in the moccasin bend the attorney states further that on un der the act passed by the recent con bresn indians arc are allowed to brine bring suit in the court of claims for the recovery of indian reserves ree erves it Is under tood stood that taylor under this provision intends bringing suit alt tor ur the entire reservation da an set et out in the north Ca carolina rollan act which granted the acre tract to the cherokees Cherok cee the establishment of claims thereto were fixed by later trestles treat lei the state of tennessee was wa at one time a part of north carolina carolin a in and d taylor will attempt to liow that the he original act granting territory embraced in the bound bounds of that common wealth WM was never repealed there Is I 1 also on record a memorandum to thia this effect say to our full fall blood people that they must raise plenty of expense money |