The Caimans Research Papers

In the year of 1827 the Cherokee Indians declared themselves a nation by drafting a constitution. “The discovery of gold was made just after the creation and passage of the original Cherokee Constitution” (“A Brief History of the Trail of Tears 1”). Aware that the native Indian land was in danger of being encroached upon by new settlers, the Indians went to the government to create an arrangement to protect their lands. “The Cherokees signed treaties ceding portions of their land to the United States” (Bjornlund 8).

This essay will talk about the causes and consequences of government relocation and reservation policies of the Cherokee tribe, this essay, discuss about 3 sources that shows the evidence of the government relocation and reservation. The 3 sources are The Trial Of Tears, The Removal Act and The Holston (1719) Treaty.

European settlements in the new world had a number of impacts on Cherokee Native Americans. It led to them dying or being pushed onto reservations.

On Friday, September 11, 1857, 120 emigrants were killed or massacred in southern Utah by Mormons and Paiute Indians on their way from Arkansas to California. They were part of the Baker-Fancher wagon train. Many of the emigrants were from Marion, Crawford, Carroll, and Johnson counties. They started their journey around Boone County in April of 1857 with their leader, who had been to California twice before leading the Baker-Fancher wagon train. About forty families met at Beller’s Stand. After they left Arkansas, the emigrants of the Fancher party traveled through Kansas and Nebraska before entering Utah. They passed Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City before making it to Cedar City. Mountain Meadows is a valley about 35 miles away from Cedar City, where the emigrants were massacred.

The Cocopah Indians lived in earth houses which are made of a square wooden frames and are thatched with grass and packed with clay. Thatching is straw, leaves, and other materials that work together to cover the roof of a house. Since the walls were made of thick wood, it kept the house cool in the hot conditions, and hot in the cold

Let’s start by looking at where they lived and settled. The Cherokee settled in the east around South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. The Apache settled in the west around New Mexico, Arizona as well as Texas, Colorado and Kansas. The Cherokee lived in log cabins where the Apache lived in tents or tee pees. The Cherokee were nestled in the mountains, where the Apache stayed mobile.

Since the beginning of time there has been stories of creation. The bible which is studied and followed by the Hebrews, tells that God created the world and all of it's things. However, the Iroquois states that the world was made and created by a different source, such as how they explain in The World on a Turtle’s Back. Both of these cultures explain what happened before and after each and every creation then they try to explain it in their own way. Different cultures describe and explain creation in different ways whether everyone believes it or not we are all the same.

To a Native American, ones heritage can define who an individual is and may become. When America was being populated by Europeans there was an effort to alter the way of life for Native Americans forcing them to adopt new ideas and abandon their traditions. This has led to modern Native Americans feeling like they have lost a large piece of their identity. Native Americans struggle in mainstream society because they have dealt with great trauma and don’t have the tools to help them cope in healthy ways. They have been torn from their homes and heritage, as there was “centuries of forcible removal of Native American children from their homes in order to be assimilated into mainstream American culture” (Wyant). The result of these kinds of actions

Aliyahland was assembled to ensure all citizens of a safe yet fun place to reside. The current society as of today has a few cons. For instance, the murder rates are increasing daily. Each day, someone is getting their life taken away. The current society has dishonored our trust by stating that all men are created equal. But in reality, there are injustices of local enforcements being televised of killings of unarmed citizens. There is a demand to form a more perfect society because rules of the modern day civilization are not being enforced. Aliyahland does offer some of the same characteristics as the current society such as consequences as the result of your actions. There will never be a “perfect” society but Aliyahland is pretty close. Aliyahland provides various opportunities for its citizens through education and government.

In the beginning the settlers created the heavens and the earth. For, America was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the continent. Or was it? Why is it that people automatically assume that America started when the settlers arrived, and that there was nothing before? Sure we can read the cute Native American mythology, but aside from that we don’t talk about America before the settlers. Would you like to hear more about the settlers, how America was before they arrived, and are you willing to learn of the holocaust that our history books aren’t willing to tell us about? Good, then keep reading.

Several Native American tribes called North Carolina home. Many still do today and haven’t moved much from their original places. The Cherokee are still over by the Appalachian Mountains and the Meherrin continue to be located in Hertford. Some are around but aren’t in the same area we originally knew them to be or just aren’t here (or recognized I should say) anymore such as the Tuscarora tribe from the coastal area that decided to move north when things got rough. Even the Croatan tribe isn’t recognized as a present day tribe and they were said to play a huge part in history here in eastern North Carolina, with the whole “lost colony” thing.

American Indians did not get scared of the explorers who had came to their land. They most likely were curious to see that there were different people, not just them, living around the world. The European settlers first arrived to see many different Indian Tribes that be made of different cultures. The fact that the American Indians didn't really pay back against the colonists at first sight, gave the colonists a welcoming feel to what they called the "New World". As explorers came to migrate, they found out that there were lots of lands, crops and animals that they never have had access to. Even though the colonists saw this as an opportunity to gain money, the American Indians suffered with the existence of people who they weren't used to

“We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavor to live with the land; they seemed to live off It.” – Tom Dystra, Aboriginal elder

The monograph focuses several Native American religious prophets that inspired the Pan-Indian movement to unify the Eastern Woodland tribes together in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Gregory Evans Dowd argues that the narrative examines the religious practices of the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans. Continuing his argument Dowd states that instead of focusing on a particular “Indian point of view,” the monograph investigates two groups the nativists and accommodationists (Dowd, xxii). The author supports his arguments by using journals, military records, and several primary sources. An instance of one of the primary sources that Dowd uses is Benjamin Hawkins’ Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798 and 1799.

Modern man is intensely disconnected from nature. Indigenous religions tend to be intensely connected to nature. While God is our Father, Earth is truly our mother. Mankind was made from Earth and has a deep longing to return to connection with Earth. An indigenous religion that originated with the people native to an area, rather than imported from elsewhere. For example, the indigenous religion of India is Hindi. Some developments of indigenous religion have come from the spread of pop culture, the loss of natural environment, loss of traditional language, conversion to other world religions and looking at history, examining how other religions in