In an effort to prevent any alliances between the Cherokee Indians and the Mexicans, the Federal Government sent Sam Houston and John Forbes to the territories occupied by the Native Americans in order to negotiate the boundaries in which they could peacefully settle. These negotiations ended with a treaty on February 23, 1836. However, this document was rejected by the Senate because it considered the consultation had exceeded its powers by offering land grants to the Cherokees. Houston decided to disregard this and maintained the kept the treaty made with the Indians. However, President Mirabeau B. Lamar would ultimately agree with the Senate's interpretations and leave the treaty without effect.
Sam Houston was a soldier and American politician. He lived between 1793 and 1863. His most important treatise was with Antonio López de Santa Anna, during the Texas Revolution, around 1832. The treaty guaranteed Texas's independence.
There was also the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, who secured the Mexican Cession and the recognition of the Rio Grande as the border between Mexico and Texas.
