_Held at Washington, D. C., between Dennis N. Cooley,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Elijah Sells, superintendent of
Indian Affairs for the southern superintendency, on behalf of the
United States, and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, represented by
its delegates, James McDaniel, Smith Christie, White Catcher, S. H.
Benge, J. B. Jones, and Daniel H. Ross, John Ross, principal chief,
being too unwell to join in these negotiations._[582]