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 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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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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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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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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authorized the president to remove southern Indian tribes out of their homes and to travel to the federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation trail for the Native tribes. The multiple sources regarding the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears help shape the reader’s understanding of the event because you get different perspectives on the situation. The Video clip portrays that Andrew Jackson is at fault because he is
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but the land the settlers were sent to explore was occupied by Native Americans. Jackson created the Indian Removal Act to get them off the land‚ leading to the Trail of Tears where Native Americans were forced off their land and taken to Oklahoma. The multiple perspectives of the sources concerning the Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears help shape the reader’s view of these events by explaining what happened‚ the causes of it‚ and the perspectives of the people involved. To begin‚
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The Trail of Tears was the name given to the forced removal of Native Americans from their homes in the Southeastern United States. The Trail of Tears removed families‚ as well as tribes‚ from their homelands that some had been inhabiting for generations‚ tearing apart Indian culture and trust between traditional Native Americans and Americans. The forced removals affected the Cherokee‚ Muscogee‚ Seminole‚ Chickasaw‚ and Choctaw nations and were carried out by various government authorities following
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The Trail of Tears was a harsh and inhumane event that happened in the 1830’s. Indian tribes were forced off of their land and they were involuntarily relocated to what is now Oklahoma. There was fear and resentment among the white settlers when it came to their Native American adversaries. They were a different kind of people than the whites when it came to how they lived‚ spoke‚ dressed and as well as their religious beliefs. This unfamiliarity with them led to the settlers believing that they
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The Trail of Tears was a journey of the Native Americans forced to leave their homes in the Southeast and move to the new Indian Territory defined as west of Arkansas in present-day Oklahoma. In the year 1839‚ 16‚001 Native Americans were marched over 1‚200 miles of land.Over 4‚000 of these Indians died from disease‚ famine‚and warfare.The Indians tribe was called the Cherokee and we call this Trail of Tears.This was one of the most racist and brutal events to happen in America.The Trail of Tear
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