What Happened To The Cherokee Summary

Most Americans have at least some vague image of the Trail of Tears, but not very many know of the events that led to that tragic removal of several thousand Indians from their homeland. Indian lands were held hostage by the states and the federal government, and Indians had to agree to removal to preserve their identity as tribes. Trail of Tears is an excellent snapshot of a particular situation and will be eye opening to those who are not familiar with the story of the southern tribes and their interactions with the burgeoning American population. The Trail of Tears has become the symbol in American history that signifies the callousness of American policy makers toward American Indians in 1839 and 1839.

Before reading On The Rez, I had little knowledge Native American history. The Cherokee tribe is well known for the heartbreak they endured in 1838-1839. The Cherokee tribe was forced to move from their land, causing multiple casualties. Frazier writes about the event stating, “of the Cherokee’s suffering in the stockades and along the trail, of the death of more than four thousand Cherokee, about a third of the population of the tribe, before the removal was through” (Frazier 75). The way Frazier writes about the Cherokee tribe is descriptive, furthermore giving the reader a greater understanding of the struggles Native Americans have endured.

The Cherokee people were forced out of their land because of the settler’s greed for everything and anything the land had to offer. Many Cherokee even embraced the “civilization program,” abandoning their own beliefs so that they may be accepted by white settlers. Unfortunately for the Cherokee though, the settlers would never accept them as an equal citizen. A quote from historian Richard White says it very well, “The Cherokee are probably the most tragic instance of what could have succeeded in American Indian policy and didn’t. All these things that Americans would proudly see as the hallmarks of civilization are going to the West by Indian people. They do everything they were asked except one thing. What the Cherokees ultimately

In the year of 1828, the president Andrew Jackson was appointed to the office of the American government with this the fact of the remaining Indians tribes were important which were named “The Five Civilized Tribes” including the Cherokee and with the pass of the “Treaty of Etocha” forced the Cherokee out of the land of Georgia also known as the “Trail of Tears” where thousands upon thousands of Cherokee were killed during the extraction of the Cherokee’s land.

There are many new and existing information that I received from reading Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality. One of the already existing ideas that I recall from my high school history classes were the aspects of The Trail of Tears. This is a well-known event because it demonstrated a cruelty among the Indian. By having them leave their lands they endured so much suffering into a path of death. What was horrible after the trail was what happened to the remaining Cherokees that didn’t want to move from their lands. As stated in the reading, “General Scott issued a proclamation within a month every Cherokee men, woman, and child should be headed west. Scott’s troops moved through countryside surrounding houses, removing the occupants, looting and burning houses, and forcing the family into stockades. Men and women were run down in the

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].

Thornton asserts in his abstract that the number of Cherokees who died may have been twice the currently accepted number. However, this is not what he says the number of Cherokees lost should be based on. He argues that the losses of the Cherokee Nation should be determined based upon the number of Cherokee who would have lived, not the ones who died, a vital distinction when one considers the drastic reduction in birth rate

die. The Red Chief was also in charge of the lacrosse games which were called

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.

Having little knowledge of the Cherokee removal and the history that took place in this moment in America’s past, the book Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, offers an insight to the politics, social dynamics and class struggles the Cherokee Nation faced in the late 1830s. The book was very comprehensive and the scope of the book covers nearly 100 years of Native American History. Ehle captures the history of the Native American people by showing the readers what led to the events infamously known as the Trail of Tears. The author uses real military orders, journals, and letters which aid in creating a book that keeps

John Ross made several trips to Washington to try to get them to let the Cherokees stay on the ancestral land and he succeeded. The court ruled in the Cherokees favor in the Worcester vs. Georgia of 1832. Andrew Jackson did nothing to try to protect the Indians. He gave the Cherokees two years to prepare to move. As the May 1838 dead line arrived the Cherokees were not prepared to move at all. They were determined to remain, to stand their ground. The troops came and dragged the Indians from their homes and they were “… encamped at the forts and military posts, all over the nation “(The Trail of Tears). Most of the people weren’t able to grab their belongings and left with only the clothes on their backs. They made the twelve-hundred mile journey in the middle of a hot and dry summer. Many of the Indians passed away. During this long journey they faced exhaustion, exposure to the heat and sun, hunger, and disease. One fourths of the Cherokees or four thousand out of the fife-teen thousand died on this tragic migration. This was wrong, unmoral, and inhumane for the government to force these people off of their land for their own selfish

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

In Trail of Tears, John Ehle introduces the people and events that led to the Trail of Tears, and the removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory. In the “Indian Territory” the Indians were promised that whites

In order for the author to write this book he must have had to do a lot of research before writing. As stated before, he has a lot of good sources. I thought the book was interesting but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone that has never heard of the Trail of Tears or the Cherokee removal.

I have finally come to a conclusion after my many days of extensive research. The annals of Jeep history have been steadily sifted through and I can safely say I am ready to make a decision as to what direction our new owner’s manual for the 2017 Grand Cherokee should be based off of. Although it might seem like a radical idea, I feel that the departure from the design style of days prior is not the course we should pursue. Instead, I would like to bring to your attention the old 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee Manual (2002). I feel it accomplishes several things that the newer versions just do not do, or they do at a sub-standard level. The three main reasons that this older version is superior are the font, headings, and audience awareness of the