American population skyrocketed. This increased the need for land for the growing American population immensely. Led by Andrew Jackson‚ the relocation‚ and removal of Native Americans started to take place in 1930. Native American tribes such as the Cherokee were removed forcibly out of lands that their families had held for generations. This changed the roles of Native women‚ so they were given bigger roles that had a bigger impact on their tribes. The society of Native Americans was always more inclusive
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parents who made it‚ will long remember it‚ as a bitter memory” (Minges‚ 467). A Georgia volunteer was later to say about the cruelty of the Indians‚ “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands‚ but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew (Minges‚ 467)”. The U.S. troops gathered several Indians as well as some African slaves and put them in what is similar to a concentration camp‚ they were kept as what Minges says “pigs in a sty”
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Apache‚ Arapaho‚ Cahuilla‚ Cherokee‚ Cheyenne‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaw‚ Comanche‚ Dakota‚ Gwich’in‚ Hopi‚ Iroquois‚ Kiowa‚ Kickapoo‚ Ktunaxa‚ Lakota‚ Lenape‚ Lumbee‚ Makah‚ Menominee‚ Mitchigamea‚ Mohawk‚ Mohegan‚ Navajo‚ Odawa‚ Ojibwe‚ Omaha‚ Paiute‚ Pawnee‚ Pennacook‚ Pima‚ Potawatomi‚ Sakonnet‚ Shawnee‚ Shoshone‚ Sioux‚ Spokane‚ Tohono‚ Tolowa‚ Yapui etc. These are just some amongst many of Native American tribes. But I am going to talk about just five tribes. These five tribes are known as Five “Civilized”
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I have two cultural background which are Cherokee Indian and African American . Cherokee is really pronounced as “CHAIR-uh-kee” in our language. Cherokee comes from a Muskogee word meaning ‘speakers of another language’. Cherokee Indians originally called themselves Aniyunwiya “the principal people‚” but today they accept the named Cherokee. But in their language it is pronounced Tsadagi . The Cherokees are original residents of the American southeast region‚ particularly Georgia‚ North and South
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war involving the Cherokee and the Chickasaw before the Indian Removal Policy was passed and the Cherokee were defeated. Chief Dragging Canoe was forced to sign a treaty in 1777 which split up the tribe. The portion of the tribe in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee became known as the Chickamauga and Chief Doublehead became their chief. After a short period of time‚ Chief Doublehead signed a treaty and gave away the land of his people. Since tribal law says "Death to any Cherokee who proposed to sell
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civilized? Jackson did not care. This changed a lot of people’s opinion of him especially because during the Worcester vs. Georgia case‚ the Supreme Court gave the Cherokee their victory simply stating that they did exist‚ but Jackson ignored it. He immediately wanted to enforce the law and made federal troops force out all the remaining Cherokee people living in Georgia‚ with only
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Most people are conscious of the devastating effects The Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee people‚ some question its necessity and the mindset of President Andrew Jackson to not only let this horrific affair to take lace but to fight tooth and nail for this policy. Despite the plethora of writings in place regarding the injustices that the Native Americans endured during the Trail of Tears very little attention has been given to why the people of that time would allow this forced removal to take
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Unfair treatment of the Native Americans- the Cherokee Nation Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less then respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land‚ and to achieve this goal‚ the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history. The US government made many treatments with the Native Americans‚ making big changes on the Indian nation
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Braden Moss Mr. Boyd 10/27/14 1st Period Indian Removal DBQ Ever since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was not the only viable decision Jackson had in view of the issues‚ but Jackson had many reasons why he thought the decision was valid even though the Supreme Court said it was illegal in
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Indians to act more American and gain their beliefs and culture so they forced the culture on them‚ an example of how they did this is by making them change religions. The Indians were made of two different tribes‚ one being the Choctaw and the other Cherokee. Men‚ women‚ and children were forced along
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