Treaty of Hopewell

Categories: United States and Native American treaties | Cherokee tribe

On November 28, 1785, the Treaty of Hopewell was signed in Hopewell, South Carolina between the US Representative Benjamin Hawkins and the Cherokee Indians. The treaty laid out a Western boundary of settlement for the Colonials.

The treaty gave rise to the sardonic Cherokee phrase of Talking Leaves, since they claimed that when the treaties no longer suited the Americans, they would blow away like talking leaves.