The Removal Of American Indian Tribes

Another cause for poor relations between Native Americans and European Settlers was the constant push for acquiring new land by the Colonists. The Native Americans did not just want to give up their land and this resulted in war between the Indians and the Colonists. During this time Native Americans were sold into slavery belittled and removed from their land, due to the fact that the Colonists had more advanced technology and weapons. One of the major wars was the French and Indian War which resulted in the removal of Native Americans from their land and many casualties on both sides. Over time many battles were fought over land, even after America was an established country with presidents, laws, and court systems. Native Americans were continually pushed out of their land for hundreds of years while they were forced to move west. The constant push of Native Americans out of their land would cause an event known as the Trail of Tears where thousands of Indians were removed from their land by the Indian Removal Act. “In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." Although many Americans were against the act, most notably Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett, it passed anyway. President Jackson quickly signed the bill into law. The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an

In the 19th century, United States was under the European empire supremacy. European held a powerful authority that commands the United States to fight against the Native Indian tribes from the West to extend their territories. However, the EU and US didn’t expect the Native to have abundant resources and population that could outweigh them in this raging battle. The war between the Native tribes and the United States went on for years. The US won the battle in the end. The US forcefully removed the Native Indian out of their own territories, extended their region to Mississippi River and established a treaty that only allowed indigenous people to stay if they obey the US regulations.

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.

Propaganda has been used overtime to manipulate people or nation into believing certain ideas. The Indian Removal Act is a historical example of propaganda manipulating people. The Indian Removal Act was to get the Native Americans living in the southeast side of the Mississippi River to move to the west side of it. Congressed passed the Indian Removal Act so that the Europeans living on the west side of the Mississippi River would get to live on the southeast and the Native Americans would go live on the west. The southeast side of the Mississippi River had rich soil that made farming easier, which allowed living there to also be easier. The west side of Mississippi River was the opposite of the southeast. The west side was dry and unsuitable

After the American Revolution, the Native Americans and the American hostile relationship begun to decrease little by little, but after the war of 1812 their relations begun to deteriorate. After the war of 1812, a lot of white Americans begun to move to new US lands in the west where a great number of Native American tribes including the Cherokee. This created hostility between the Cherokee tribe because white Americans are moving into their lands that was given to them by a treaty. The Cherokee people did not want to give up any lands because that is their home and where the want to live. Since Cherokee people did not want to give up, the US government passed the Indian Removal act that made the president trade lands West of the Mississippi

The early 1800’s was a very important time for America. The small country was quickly expanding. With the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition, America almost tripled in size by 1853. However, even with the amount of land growing, not everyone was welcomed with open arms. With the expansion of the country, the white Americans decided that they needed the Natives out.

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.

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Approval Act was approved by the U.S. Congress. This act relocated the Native American tribes to the land beyond the Mississippi River. Some tribes went peacefully, but many others did not. As a result, these tribes were forced to move in the dead of Winter. In the end, approximately 4,000 Cherokee died. It could be argued that the government did try to be peaceful, but the Native Americans didn’t deserve to be to lose the only home they had ever known. They were right to fight for there their rights, and the government was wrong to deny them the land they had lived on for years. Unfortunately that was just the beginning, the government would persist for years to “civilize” the Native Americans, and in the end, they succeeded. They moulded them into typical Americans and lost a valuable culture. No matter how hard the government may try to fix their mistakes, they can’t ever completely bring back the Native American

Two out of three people are discriminated everyday. “Giving someone equal rights does not infringe or take away rights from them, it just makes it illegal to enforce your prejudice and hate.” British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” He also said, “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” During the Cherokee Indian Removal, the Cherokee Indians were forced to be removed by the U.S. troops because of discovery of gold leading them to be removed, and discrimination towards the Cherokees.

I am writing to inform you about reconsidering the removal of American Indians from their homelands. This removal could cause multiple problems between the United States and the Indians. A harmful war can occur between the nations and could kill innocent lives. The Indians love their lands and it’s not easy for them to leave due to the fact that the land traces back for two hundred years. For the past years, the Indians lived their lives with happiness where it was full of a quiet and undisturbed ease. You said “we must be sensible that it will be impossible for us to remain, for any length of time, in our present situation, as a distinct society or nation, within the limits of Georgia, or of any other State; and that such a community is incompatible

A long time before this land was called the United States, the Cherokee people used to live in this land in the valleys of rivers that drained the southern Appalachians. These people made their homes, farmed their land, and buried their dead. Also these people, who are now called Indians claimed larger lands. They would use these for hunting deer and gathering material, to live off of. Later these lands were called Virginia and Kentucky. As it is mentioned in the text, these people had their own culture and own way of life. They had their own gender roles and religion; even eating food had a different definition than the white man’s culture. They had equality between genders, and other members of the tribe had equal rights to talk. But

Many people have heard of the Trail of Tears, a long and arduous journey that many Cherokees were forced to make, but much less people know of the injustice and discrimination that all Cherokees faced in the years leading up the removal of the Cherokees. And though the removal of the Cherokees was completely illegal, the United States government still sought to justify the Cherokee removal with ideas that in retrospect proved to be mostly opinions and exaggerations.

Native Americans have felt distress from societal and governmental interactions for hundreds of years. American Indian protests against these pressures date back to the colonial period. Broken treaties, removal policies, acculturation, and assimilation have scarred the indigenous societies of the United States. These policies and the continued oppression of the native communities produced an atmosphere of heightened tension. Governmental pressure for assimilation and their apparent aim to destroy cultures, communities, and identities through policies gave the native people a reason to fight. The unanticipated consequence was the subsequent creation of a pan-American Indian identity

The Native Americans (Indians) found themselves pushed from their homelands and trapped into treaty after treaty with the American government. “The 1851 For Laramie Treaty [stated] the chiefs of the Plains tribes agreed to accept definite tribal borders and allow white immigrants to travel on their trails unmolested” (Tindall 804). Although it’s fair to say that when these treaties were signed both parties intended to abide by them; however greed always seems to get the best of society. The desire to expand westward would result in the dismissal of the treaties causing fights between settlers and Indians. The “Great Sioux War” is a prime example of just how ruthless things got for Indians during the westward expansion. The war lasted one year and three months across 4 (present day) states (Tindall 805). Ultimately, a lack of understanding of how settlers fought their wars would result in Indians losing the war and being subjected to reservations. Once there they were usually stripped of their traditions, culture and basic way of life. They were then forced to adapt to an “Anglo-Saxon” way of life. This meant anything from wearing the same clothes as settlers, to learning to read and write English instead of their native tongues. Once the Indians had reached a reservation they themselves were “conquered” right along with the

government has unspecified and unorganized policies, which were unprotected for Native Americans who lived in the west because of all the new coming Americans. During westward expansion, a majority of who moved were whites, who didn’t know the Native Americans who already lived in the west. The Natives felt their land was being conquered, because of the U.S government policies(Louisana Purchase & Homestead Act) and the whites not wanting them to be there, which lead to fighting between the Natives and the whites. These acts and policies such as the Indian Removal Act often resulted in violated treaties and violence. The Indian Removal Act was the removal of Native American homes and tribes. “This also confines the Indians to still narrower limits, destroys that game which in their normal state, and constitutes their principal means of subsistence.” Resulting in westward expansion, Native Americans began rapidly decreasing in the area by wars and new diseases caught by new coming