Cherokees

based on them not knowing better. On the other hand, their inferiority was cultural not racial (p. 11). In 1791 they announced the Cherokees may be led to a greater civilized society instead of remaining hunters. So women started to weave cloth, these Cherokee planters became rich, and the first law established in 1808 was about preventing the theft horses, also Cherokees invented a system for writing the Cherokee language. The Indian Removal policy started by Andrew Jackson and passed in 1830. In

Cherokee Indians As stated in the “Cherokees,” Robert J. Conley said, “Cherokees are a Native American people whose ancestral lands were a vast area of what is now the southeastern United States.” They adapt to their surroundings rapidly when they settle in the southeast. These lands are very helpful for the Cherokee Indians to survive. Some factors of the Native American Tribe, the Cherokee Indians, are their advanced tools and weapons, their variations of clothing, and their religion. The advanced

Civil Rights In The Nineteenth Century Both Native Americans and African Americans were oppressed by British settlers and struggled to fight and protect their rights against them. Native and African Americans both shared similarities in order to accomplish what they were fighting for; however, both fought for different causes and were treated in different manners. Native Americans fought to protect their ownership to land. Whereas the African Americans did not own land, instead fought for their

Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. They had their own newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix, they grew corn and cotton, raised hogs and cattle, and they lived in log houses. The Cherokee Indians lived in peace, up until October of 1838. Cherokees were forced out of their homes and held at gunpoint by 7,000 soldiers, an order from President Martin Van Buren who was pressured by Georgia. Eighteen thousand Indians were pressured to march from Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina

stated, “It will enable those states to rapidly advance in population, wealth, and power”(Document C). He believed the removal of Cherokees would open new opportunities to Americans. They would have more space to manufacture goods or grow crops. This would help economically because it allows the U.S. to export and sell more. It was also argued that removing the Cherokees would help them as well as the U.S. John C. Calhoun had said, “…the new country given to them should be … a permanent home fore themselves

“The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their houses, and encamped at the forts and military posts, all over the nation” (Jones 1838). This is an excerpt from a letter Evan Jones, a Baptist missionary to the Cherokees, wrote to the Baptist Missionary Magazine. Jones lived with the Cherokees for forty-seven years he even translated the Bible into Cherokee. Although when President Jackson pushed the Indian Removal Act he claimed it would be beneficial for the indigenous

Cherokee nation, located in North Carolina before their removal, now locate it in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. A great city of great and wonderful people. The trail of tears, which means the place where they cried, does not only describe the removal of the Cherokees from their land, but it also describes the death of so many of them and the loss of their traditional and gorgeous houses. Nowadays, Cherokee descent had created a play that describe what happened to their removal of North Carolina across the Mississippi

Europeans embellished the thought that Cherokees are a valuable asset. The large tribe could provide hundreds of waring braves to serve as reserve troop and ultimately meaningless pawns for disposal between the European conflicting countries. As a result, “the Cherokees became embroiled in a number of European skirmishes, siding with the British during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.” (Elliott p.44), The Cherokees’ only reason for going to war, were to avenge wrongs

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

By the early 1800s, the Cherokees were flourishing— they had written their own alphabet, published a newspaper, formed a government, and written a constitution. However, with the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, Georgia passed legislation that nullified the Cherokee government and revoked their rights as people. Soon thereafter, gold was discovered on Cherokee land and people flooded the land to pan for gold. In 1829, the Indian Removal Act proposed to force all five southern tribes to move west