exodus of the Natives of America. Almost all historical accounts are in the perspective of an American‚ the perpetrators. How could a tragic event be prevent from in the future if there are no views of a victim. Therefore‚ I as a witness of the Trail of Tears‚ have collected my memories to help enlighten those who are clueless. Just as I was about to leave to go berry picking‚ my mother calls out to me. “ Aquen‚ come!” She hollered. My mother‚ was a warmhearted a middle-aged woman. Villagers alway
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Nunna daul Isunyi: “the Trail Where They Cried” The Cherokee Peoples’ Trail of Tears History 101 – American History to 1877 Professor Fliegelman February 19‚ 2011 Why did the relocation in the late 1830s of the Cherokee people come to be known as the “Trail of Tears”? The Cherokee people were forcefully removed from their ancestral lands and relocated to the west‚ a direction that in their beliefs had been associated with death. The thousand mile trek that followed
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Trail of Tears DBQ The Cherokee Native Americans had to move to the west of the Mississippi River from where ever they were. They had to move from their original homes because they were “in the way” of the growing states. Document H2 is a graphic of where the Native Americans started and trail they took to Oklahoma. All of the Native American tribes were originally in one of the growing states. It was a problem for them to be in the states because they were not under the United States leadership
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deeming the meeting of leading members to be illegal. Federal agents were also sent in to coerce Cherokee leaders into further giving up parts of their land. Arguably the most widely known evidence of racial cleansing revolves around the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears refers to the forced march of multiple Native American tribes to new lands predetermined by the U.S. government.
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Trail of Tears Among America’s rich history the United States has achieved many wondrous fetes‚ from declaring independence from Great Britain to abolishing slavery. Although the U.S. government has had such praise worthy accomplishments‚ there is one instance in United States history which brings shame to many Americas to this very day. This instance was the tragic removal of thousands of Native American men‚ women‚ and children from their homeland‚ notoriously known as The Trail of
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Trail of Tears Trial of Tears and the Five Civilized Tribes During the early years of 1800s‚ valuable gold deposits were discovered in tribal lands‚ which by previous cessions had been reduced to about seven million acres in northwest Georgia‚ eastern Tennessee‚ and southwest North Carolina. In 1819 Georgia appealed to the U.S. government to remove the Cherokee from Georgia lands. When the appeal failed
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remove the Native Americans from their lands‚ President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the law resulting from the ruling. From this action‚ the US government forcibly removed around 16‚000 Cherokees from their land and forced them to walk the Trail of Tears. Around 4‚000 of them perished on the 2‚200-mile journey; starting at the southwest to Indian Territory‚ now called Oklahoma. However‚ the terror didn’t end once they had been relocated against their will. Cultural Genocide was committed against
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Trail of Tears In the 1830s nearly 125‚000 Native Americans lived in on millions of acres of land. By the end of the decade very few remained. Federal government forced them to leave their homes. They had to walk a thousand miles across the Mississippi River. The difficult and deadly journey was called the Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson was the one who made this removal. He called it the Indian Removal. In 1830‚ the Indian Removal act was signed. Native Americans were forced to leave their
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The Trail of Tears‚ essentially‚ was the path taken by most Indians to get to their homes on reservations across the Mississippi River (Wallace 221-223). This Trail of Tears led to almost 2‚000 deaths for the Cherokees alone‚ which were the largest of the Indian tribes and‚ thus‚ one of the most affected by the Trail of Tears (Perdue and Green 139). The Trail of Tears‚ therefore‚ was just as much of a political and emotional plight for
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The Trail of Tears The trail of tears was the forceful events to the Native American to relocate from the south eastern region to the western region. Andrew Jackson was the president‚ He fulfilled his ambition by changed the Washington and America‚ which is also called the Indian removal act. The removal was resulted destruction to the five Indian tribes‚ such as Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ Creek‚ Seminole and Cherokee. The Cherokee was decided not to move‚ they have took Georgia to the court. The chief
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