Five Civilized Tribes

fond of the Native Americans. They were thought to be highly uncivilized and they had to go. In his letter to Congress addressing the removal of the Indian tribes, President Jackson

the Indians. Clashes between the settlers and Indians were common over land rights and usage, religious and cultural differences, and broken treaties. Some Indian tribes liked the new ideas and began to incorporate them into their culture by establishing written laws, judicial courts and practicing Christianity, while other tribes rejected them (“Treatment”). Once the United States purchased Louisiana from the French in 1803, Americans began to encroach into the Indian lands of the south and west

Candelyn Kitchens Courtney Luman English Ⅱ 15 November 2016 Oklahoma Land Run Oklahoma was once referred to as the “Unassigned Lands” (Fugate,138). This land was land inside Indian Territory that had not been claimed by one of the tribes (Hoig). Whites believed they were entitled to this land and wanted to get the statement across that America is a “white man’s country” (Dorman, 38). Immediately after Benjamin Harrison, the United States of America’s president at the time, announced the land

military general, Andrew Jackson was justified in his signing of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, because it allowed for the expansion of America by land acquisition and economic growth while at the same time protecting the culture of the American Indian tribes from total extinction. During the early 1800s, America, a newly born nation, was growing in a hurry. In order to compensate for this growth, America needed land and a large portion of it. Therefore, to accomplish this necessity the 21st

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, of course, we think of Christopher Columbus. Yet, the first people were the Cherokee Indians. They are the second largest and most powerful tribe of the “Five Civilized Tribes”, that live on lands many, many years before the white man set foot on their soil. Regrettably, the Cherokee’s were brutally removed from their homes, where they lived for 30,000 years. This expedition was the Trail of Tears; this paper

Lord of the Flies - Savagery “There are too many people, and too few human beings.” (Robert Zend) Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, boys are stranded on an island far away, with no connections to the adult world. These children, having no rules, or civilization, have their true nature exposed. Not surprisingly, these children’s nature happens to be savagery

deal with the relocation of the Native American tribes that lived east of the Mississippi river. Americans began to get greedy and wanted to take over the lands of the Native Americans and claim them as their own. In this research paper, topics of the Cherokee tribe and the effect the trail of tears had on them will be discussed. It includes the lifestyles of this tribe before the relocation, during the relocation, and the effects it had on this tribe. It will also discuss the efforts the Cherokee

concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The

the removal of many members of the tribes that did not want to assimilate into the European lifestyles. The nations of Choctaw, Muskogee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminole among others were forcefully or coercively removed from their native land. By the fall of 1831, the nations of Choctaw become the first tribe to bear the blunt of the removal and thus becoming the model of ensuing removals . These tribes are in some cases referred jointly as Five Civilized Tribes. En-route to their designated land

of the Mississippi River for the Indian natives, ensured trade and exchange in those districts, allowed Native Indian tribes to be compensated for the cost of their removal and the improvements of their homesteads, and also pay one years’ worth subsistence to those Native Indians who relocated to the west. However, while few Indian tribes went peacefully, majority of the tribes resisted the removal policy. Additionally, government agents were authorized to negotiate and enforce treaties. Therefore