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    Back in the 1800s, the Cherokee Indian culture worshiped the sun. The Cherokee would pray to the sun to bring abundant crops and good health. The Cherokee Indians held a festival called the New Moon Festival in which they paid honor to the moon. The name for the Cherokee People is “A ni yun wi yah”, which in English it means “The Principle People” or akin to “The People of God.” The devotion of the Cherokee people was to the Supreme Holy Spirit who could not be looked upon and whose energy was the

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    The United States and the Cherokee Indians 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

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    Trail of Tears BRIA 21 1 c Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the “Trail of Tears” CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION Bill of Rights in Action Winter 2004 (21:1) Executive Power BRIA 21: 1 Home | Machiavelli and The Prince | Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants | Jackson and Indian Removal Indian Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the “Trail of Tears” President Andrew Jackson pursued a policy of removing the Cherokees and other Southeastern tribes from their homelands to the

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    Mayans experience of colonialism occurred in different time periods, their use of adaptation was used as a source of defense against their invaders. An example of this would be the way Cherokee women reacted to the building of mission schools on Cherokee land. They first viewed it as a threat to their role as Cherokee mothers. Once they began to understand the expectations and goals the missionaries had, they maneuvered their children around these white standards to keep their security while still

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    The Cherokee Indians lived in North American far longer than any other British decent or human being. Still they were compelled to move from their property (land), which was done in a fierce way, which had been theirs for quite a long time and hundreds of years. This excursion of evacuation was known as the Trail of Tears, and this paper will demonstrate the impacts this moved had on the Cherokee individuals. It will let you know how they lived before they were compel to moved, clarify the occasions

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    Cherokee Native American Indians and the Trail of Tears What made the Cherokee culture distinctive towards others in the Trail of Tears time period was that they had a more peaceful, harmless outlook on the situation. In 1814, Andrew Jackson who would eventually become the President of the United States, had his and his whole army’s lives on the line in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to the British forces when the Cherokee allied with them to win the battle. Surprisingly, 16 years later when Jackson

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    When Andrew Jackson became the president of the United States, he had in mind to remove Cherokee Indians from their society and place them on new lands provided by the Louisiana purchase. A bill was signed in 1830, known as the “Indian Removal Bill”, which made Cherokees migrate from Georgia, westward of the Mississippi river. The Cherokees had to be moved from their lands because the environment they were leaving in was not suiting them well and they were becoming a threat to the new government

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    The Cherokee was one of the many native american tribes that was affected by the arrival of the europeans and colonization. The Cherokee culture was a typical culture like any other native american tribe. They spoke the language that is known as Tsalagi. They harvested beans, corn and squash most commonly known to Cherokee as “The Three Sisters”. They also had their own ways of doing things such as their own philosophy and hunting style. The Cherokee philosophy is known as “the right way” which is

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    marginalising the Cherokee Indians. In The Searchers the Cherokee Indians are portrayed as “childish savages”, who hunt and kill “innocent” family’s and people and are the antagonists of the movie. However the Westerners are portrayed as the heroes of the

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    the revolutionized American Colonists. Along this succession, the Indian tribes on the east coast experienced extreme prejudice, regime changes and war. Among these tribes are the Cherokee. The Cherokee were at the forefront of Indian-European relations. They remained strong in the southeast, despite war and epidemic. The Cherokee underwent significant culture changes yet not always by choice. War and disease tore apart the Cherokee as well other tribes but

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