Elias Boudinot And John Ridge: The Creation Of Civilized Indian Nation

The law was passed that all Natives had to leave. Cherokees believed even if they stayed they would still have to deal with all the troublesome White neighbors, therefore their best option was to leave. There was nothing they could do because the whites were too powerful as said in doc 5. “It is argued that they can never remain quiet where they are;n that they will always be infested by troublesome whites; and that the states, which lay claim their territory, will always preserve in measures to vex and annoy them.” The Natives didn’t understand why the white people wanted them gone so bad, because the white people tried so hard to change the Natives culture to make them act like the white people. The Natives changed they way they acted, worked, and how they looked. In doc 7 it says “ The Cherokees have been reclaimed from their wild habits. Instead of hunters, they have become the cultivators of the soil instead of wild and ferocious savages, thirsting for blood, they become the mild “citizens.” The Cherokees were really upset, because not only were they leaving what had now become their norm they were also leaving their land which had been passed down through their family. The Cherokees started a petition to the United States asking for them to fulfill their treaty they had made. In doc 9. It says “ Cherokee people used no violence but humbly petitioned the Government of the United States for a fulfillment of treaty

The debate over the legality of sovereignty and acquired lands from the native Americans, specifically the Cherokee, has long been debated. The issues involved have included treaties, land sold, and the right of the Government to physically enforce their rules on Indian land "sovereignty". This paper will examine the strategy used by the Federal Governments, the State Governments as well as those of the Cherokee Indians. The three-way relationship as well as the issues will examine how the interpretation of the Constitution changed society prior to the year of 1840.

John Burnett witnessed the helpless Cherokees pulled from their homes and driven at bayonet point. They were herded into wagons and headed westward. Most of the Cherokee people did not have sufficient cover to protect against the harsh climate. By the time the westward journey ended, four thousand Cherokees had died all because the whites wanted their land. The Cherokee sent an envoy to Jackson to which Jackson decreed that all of their land must be given to the white people [Doc 3].

The Cherokee removal process dates back as early as the times of the first European encounters. When the explorers arrived in the New World, lack of immunity from disease played a role in decimating the native population. Smallpox, measles, and typhus spread everywhere and eventually, only around sixteen thousand natives remained by the 1700's. Even with the overwhelming victory of the British during the French and Indian war, the Cherokee were able to preserve many aspects of their society such as their own local governments and maintaining their crops. Nevertheless, the monarchy still ruled the region and even by the end of the Revolutionary War when the Americans had won, Constitutional policies were implemented to contain and control the native peoples. Peaceful relations existed in the beginning, but it was not until powerful resistance from the Cherokee that forced change among the settlers who kept pushing for westward expansion.

Globalization has caused extreme change on the Cherokee ways of life, institutions, customs and traditions. The Cherokee people are incorporating more and more of their past traditions in to their institutions way of life in a means of trying to preserve them in this every changing world. Once a culture of people that held high their beliefs and way of life was nearly an extinct culture after the European, and colonization forced these people out of their land. It is important to see look at the affects that globalization has on the Cherokee people because looking at this we can see how globalization affects human dignity both in a positive manner and in a negative manner.

The Cherokee attempted to civilize to mirror their American counter parts in an attempt to elude they’re absolute removal. The Cherokee had faith in government, but did not calculate greed, bigotry and biased opposition from those who were overseeing they’re livelihood. The Cherokee had always opposed those who took to emigration, but soon after force the Majority were unwelcomed in a new society. The tribe, cooperated with British forces in hopes of maintaining their ancestral land.

With the discovery of the New World came a whole lot of new problems. Native American Indians lived in peace and harmony until European explorers interrupted that bliss with the quest for money and power. The European explorers brought with them more people. These people and their descendants starting pushing the natives out of their homes, out of their land, far before the 1800s. However, in the 1800s, the driving force behind the removal of the natives intensified. Thousands of indians during this time were moved along the trail known as Nunna dual Tsung, meaning “The Trail Where They Cried” (“Cherokee Trail of Tears”). The Trail of Tears was not only unjust and unconstitutional, but it also left many indians sick, heartbroken, and dead.

The states of Georgia and the United States of America chose to relocate the Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Choctaw Indians from what was known as Indian territories then. By 1828, the Cherokee were civilized people since they had acquired most the western culture. Their women wore gowns, in addition to the Cherokees having a system of government. Moreover, they had built roads in their territories to show that they were ready to govern themselves. The people had decided that the land was theirs and as result, they had started to develop. They had quit their way of life and adopted western life such as farming and cattle ranching. However, despite their efforts the US government considered them as strangers who did not merit living in Georgia. Although some Cherokees like Major Ridge supported the removal, it is important to note that this was against the American constitution, which gives everyone equal rights.

Before the arrival of the European, Indian have already inhabited the places living by hunting animals and growing crops, having their own languages and cultures their land have been rooted there for generation after generation. But the Europeans, have taken those away from them, killing countless Indian with their diseases, and driving them out of their house, trying to convert them into Christian, viewing them as savage animal condemned them into an endless inexpressible sufferings. The North American Indians traditions and cultural been burn down in a matter of time, their traditions were obscured, and the chain of their recollections broken the moment when the European set foot on the New World. As the European tyranny increasing Indian habits started to change their becoming restless, and when they were pushes to their limited the Indian become more warlike, and more barbarous desperately fighting in order to earn some respect from the European. After American become independent the problem with Indian was still an issues, many war between Indian and the American has happen. More and more Indian having to move westward into the Louisiana territories continues losing their home and their lifestyles, they have also tried to bring this issues to court but was turn down, not only the Indian trying to adapted to the new environment, by creating their

In the beginning of the national government and the Cherokee’s relationship, tensions were already running high. The white people saw the Cherokee as savages and nothing more. To begin the removal west process, the national government passed the Treaty of New Echota. This treaty stated that the Cherokee

This describes the Cherokees being treated like trash and forced to evacuate their land as quickly as possible. It is written that there was no time to grab any belongings and when the Indians came back for their stuff, they had found their property missing or stolen. Although it had not happened yet, this sounds similar to the mistake on how the United States treated the Japanese during World War 2. An Indian Missionary named Daniel Buttrick agreed with the description of how they were treated from the previous article. Many “travelers” were complaining with the limited time and supplies they had and the harsh weather associated with their

During the American revolution the Indians had chosen to support the British, doing so they had killed many Americans. They had also tortured multiple Americans in awful and cruel ways. For example, it the article “Move The Cherokee To Indian Territory” states that “In many cases their

To shed light on a difficult and brutal moment in American history, authors James W. Parins and Daniel F. Littlefield compiled a two-volume book about the horrors of the Indian removal act. In it were bear witness to the atrocities committed against the “Five Civilized Tribes” as they are forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland. Parins and Littlefield give clear clinical accounts of the Cherokee Nation’s struggle in arguing for its national sovereignty as well as its failure to prevent the impediment by the state of Georgia into its territories. Disillusioned at any hope of repealing the influx of removal by Georgia, some Cherokees abandon their homes while others were forcibly removed. Those that did leave peacefully enough left with what they could take with them including those who were kept in bondage. Though bounded to the land in the Cherokee Nation, these slaves faced a precarious disposition much the same as their masters magnified only by their servitude which traveled with them. They suffered the same hardships and underwent the same ordeals on the great trek to new Indian Territory. Yet despite this knowledge, not much of what happened is widely presented to

The relationship between the settlers and the native americans in the United States had always been a tense one. However, by 1791 the Cherokee of Georgia and North Carolina had accepted the colonists and their way of life and had become more like them. The settlers, on the other hand, resented the Cherokee’s prosperity and wanted the gold on their land.With the Indian Removal Act in 1830 the U.S. government forced the Cherokee off of their land and resettled them in indian territory in what is now Oklahoma.

The history of Native Americans is unique and tragic. It is unique, because the Indians were the original inhabitants of the American continent, and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colonies in the 17th century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the 19th century. It is tragic because the conflict between Indians and whites is a repetition of the experience of other nations of the world, the tradition which clashed with the expanding industrialized