Treaty of Hopewell
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The Treaty of Hopewell may refer to one of three different treaties signed at Hopewell, (the plantation of Andrew Pickens on the Keowee River in northwestern South Carolina) between the United States of America and Native American peoples.
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[edit] 1785 Treaty of Hopewell - Cherokee
On November 28, 1785, the Treaty of Hopewell was signed 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.