Jake Carlson. Cullen, Engc 1101-33. Argumentative Essay.

The Trail of Tears occurred in 1838 and about a fourth of the Cherokee nation perished during it. Out of the 12,000 Cherokees that traveled along the northern route, 4,000 were killed. The Long Walk of the Navajo occurred between 1863 and 1866, where hundreds of Navajos died from disease, starvation, and exposure. Both of these events played a major role in the history of America and the history of Native Americans. Although the Cherokees and Navajos are very different, they share a similar goal of wanting to survive. They both had a culture that focused upon hunting and gathering, but they also had to focus on finding an eventual homeland. The government of the United Sates

The Cherokee followed the white man's command at gunpoint as they always have even when their was no un point. Torrential rains, rough weather, disease and broken hearts had taken the lives of at least 4,000 Cherokee men, women and children. Journals show soldiers saying this was more cruel than battles they have been on. The cherokee removal was the biggest history for the native tribe the horrors haunt the families of the heart

America, land of the free, home of the brave, unless you’re not white. The United States of America was built on immigrants, but the more proper term would be imperialists. It is widely known that Native Americans were here first, but they barely acknowledge it. Instead children are taught about Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, and the founding fathers. Colonists felt the need to kill, annex, and annihilate an entire culture to capitalize off of “undiscovered” lands. As a result, Native American culture is almost extinct, the impact that colonists had on Native Americans were catastrophic; natives were forced to change their way of life and culture to adjust to new conquerors brought by Columbus, when westerners kept pushing west, battles and massacres ensued and Natives were forced to assimilate into American culture. Native Americans are still ignored and are pushed to the back burner. We claim that we are progressive, but the Dakota Pipeline Project seems to contradict that statement. Today, we still aren’t progressing and it shows when we still have a holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus “discovering” the new world.

1f) Trail of tears: In 1838 the United States Army gathered about 15,000 Cherokees and put them in a camp. They were forced to march for about 116 days in groups of 1,000 to get to the camp. Many died during the trip from cold or diseases.

In 1492, the Spanish and English discovered America and the both searched for new areas to take claim so they can settle and make new colonies for the new world up until around 1790. The Spanish were the first successful country to establish wealth and gain from the new world and it was because of their interest in using these colonies for mostly for trade. Although the Spanish and English had an increasingly large grasp over the new world, Africans, other European countries, and Native Americans could not stop fighting so they could band together to fight the higher powers, meanwhile America was trying to become it's own nation, Even though all of the less powerful cultures wanted freedom (Dutch, Native Americans, Germans, Scot-Irish, Africans, Scots, and French) all except the Africans got it because it was a lot harder to figure out who was really a slave if you were white but a lot easier if it was only Black. Even though the odds were not in their favor, The less powerful ethnic groups could not join together and fight the Anglo-Americans , Spanish, and English mostly because of the majority of people were Protestant, cultural pluralism, and of course, Anglo conformity. Native Americans didn’t have much to worry about besides the the struggles of their everyday life up until 1492 when Christopher Columbus arrived. Most people think of Native Americans to be one or very few groups of people, but in reality it was a lot more complex that that. Natives had differences

In the early 1830s, approximately 125,000 Native Americans thrived on millions of acres of land in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Alabama. In the next 10 years, a scarce number of natives lingered anyplace in the Southeastern United States. In 1838 and 1839, the Cherokee nation was brutally forced to give up its rightful land and travel on foot to designated “Indian Territory” in modern-day Oklahoma. Upon this involuntary journey, thousands of Indians faced exhaustion, disease, and famine. This heartbreaking event became known as the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears is important to the history of the United States because it is the wickedest human civil rights tragedy to ever fall upon the Native American population, and it was the beginning of the destruction of an entire people.

Before Europeans ever ventured to North America, the land had been populated by Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures and social structures. Native Americans had trade routes and established complex relationships between tribes. They were not merely heathens waiting to be civilized by the Europeans. Yet, Europeans would use those justifications to lay claim on their 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 Cherokee Tribe was the worst treated among all tribes. More than 4,000 Cherokee Indians died on the forced march to their new land, which became known as “The Trail of Tears” (Satz, Remini, and Wallace). After the policy was enacted the government began to make more changes to the

Cherokee Indians had a hard life during the trail of tears. They were forced to move out of their homes. They had to leave their land and farms. 4,000 Cherokee Indians died of hunger, or exposure of disease. The journey became cultural as the “Trail where they cried” for the Cherokees and other removed tribes.

The Trail of Tears was a very tragic event that occurred after president Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act was exactly what it sounds like. Congress forced thousands of Indians out of their homes at gunpoint, simply because of American greed and longing desire for wealth. Many Americans sought gold that could be found in Georgia, where many Native Americans were settled. In order to obtain this land and the wealth that came with it, American soldiers forced around 16,000 natives from various different tribes to go on an extremely long and difficult journey to the western regions of America. Along this journey they encountered poor weather, they were treated poorly, and around 4,000 died. If they were lucky,

The law permitted the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi River to Native Americans in exchange for the lands they occupied. The United States government forcibly took lands owned by Native Americans and expelled them into territory outside of its borders. During the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, approximately 4,000 died. Law and policy in relation to Native Americans rendered this period tumultuous, cruel, and void of justice.

In 1838, American soldiers entered their homes, burned them to the ground, and forced them to pick up what little they had and start to move west. This sent the Cherokee indians on the famous Trail of Tears, known for being completely devastating to their population due to the harsh journey, disease, and starvation that took place. Most historians have estimated that, “with reason, over 4,000 Cherokee died as the direct result of the removal” (Thornton 292). Due to the little resources and lack of data that is available for the population of the tribe, it is somewhat uncertain of the exact amount that died. However, Russell Thornton is able to estimate through reasoning and available data that the loss of the Cherokee population during the Trail of Tears is actually much larger and possibly double than what previous historians have estimated. Thornton looks specifically at the population of the tribe throughout history in order to determine the loss during the whole relocation period and also what the size of the tribe would have been if this tragic event had not

Between 1838 and 1839, the Cherokee nation was required to give up all their land east of the Mississippi River. The Cherokee were forced to migrate west to what is present-day Oklahoma. The migration journey is known as the “Trial of Tears,” as a result of the crushing results. The Indians encountered hunger, disease and exhaustion on their journey. Of the 15,000 Cherokees forced to migrate 4,000 of them died.

The Europeans have contributed much to United States development from time immemorial. The north of America was colonized by Europeans. Their culture, social ideas, and language were common to those of North American. Consequently, European influence pre dominated their territories situated on the North despite losing their control politically. Civilization in America began between fifteen to forty years ago. By then the northern land was occupied by huge sheets of ice, which lowered the levels of sea leading to the bridging of North America and Asia (Gellman). Nomads from Asia made the way into America as they followed wild game. The arrow point found in Clovis evidenced their emergence. Burial practices and tools had been found in several sites in South and across North America. With time, a big number of the settlers engaged themselves into agricultural activities forming communities and tribes leading to the emergence of their own distinct languages. Tribes dominated large areas of America, which gained regional value thus leading to rise of highly of advanced empires. These empires instigated rivalry to the great empires, which were in Europe. These people never had a unified identity hence arose difficulties in their reference by historians. Initially, Europeans referred to the natives as Indians. Christopher Columbus