Webber also built a salt works, leasing the land for the latter from the Cherokee government, which held it communally as a tribe. When English-speaking visitors came, one of their African-American slaves and domestic servants would translate. They had adopted many American ways and outfitted their house in European-American style. Of mixed-race Cherokee-European descent, Webber was married to a full-blood Cherokee. Having acquired a small fleet of keelboats, he was able to stock the post with goods from other parts of the United States, so he opened a trading post and a portage service, as well as building a house. Webber had settled here with some of the first Cherokee to go to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River it was then considered part of Arkansas Territory. In the late 1830s and 1840, the mass of thousands of Cherokee from the Southeast were forcibly moved into Indian Territory as a result of the US policy of Indian Removal. They had a treaty with the United States government by 1828, which helped settle some conflicts with the Osage people, who had been forced to give up land to the Cherokee. He was a leader among the Western Cherokee, also called "Old Settlers". The name comes from a seven-foot waterfall in the Arkansas River named in honor of Walter Webber, a Cherokee chief who established a trading post here in 1818. The population was 616 at the 2010 census, a decline of 14.9 percent from the figure of 724 recorded in 2000. Webbers Falls is a town in southeastern Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States.
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