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2 unusual facts about Major Ridge


Blood Law

Among those who were executed under such laws were Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot.

The most noted were the friction between the Lower Creeks and the Upper Creeks and the killings between the John Ross and Ridge factions of the Cherokee Nation; both of which lasted from the 1820s to the American Civil War.



see also

Corumbá River

The Corumbá flows south from its source near Corumbá de Goiás, where there are spectacular waterfalls, is crossed by a major ridge on the Brasília-Goiânia highway east of Alexânia, passing near Pires do Rio and Caldas Novas, south of which it enters the Itumbiara Reservoir, the lake damming up the Paranaíba River, one of the main tributaries of the Paraná.