Goodlettsville, Tennessee

lacked experience in having to make highly significant accommodations among, and for, their people. Jackson had a vast history of public disgust for the Indian society. Prior to his presidency, Andrew Jackson started with a military background in Tennessee that primarily involved revolts against the Indians. He also led a campaign against a group of Indians known as the “Red Sticks” (Cayton, Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 173). Through this campaign Jackson

Nation to be null and void after June 1, 1830, forcing the issue of states' rights with the federal government. Because the state no longer recognized the rights of the Cherokees, tribal meetings had to be held just across the state line at Red Clay, Tennessee. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia in 1829, efforts to dislodge the Principle People from their lands were intensified. At the same time President Andrew Jackson began to aggressively implement a broad policy of extinguishing

through 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

elected into this position twice, not only that he served as governor of Texas. Sam Houston was born on March 2nd, 1793 in Virginia. His father, Samuel, was a war veteran of the American Revolutionary war. After his father died his family moved to Tennessee. He briefly worked at his brother’s store. He was dissatisfied by this so he ran away at the age of sixteen. He ended up living with the Cherokee, and

“A Treaty of Peace and; Friendship made and concluded between the President of the United States of America, on the Part and Behalf of the said States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, on the part aide Behalf of the said Nation.” The Treaty of 1791 took a turn when President Jackson enforced the Indian Removal Act. The Treaty of 1791 was a treaty meant for the Cherokees residing in Georgia, allowing them to live peacefully with white settlers. Lives were

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. During his presidency, Jackson took part in removing Native American Indians to the west. Because he was the President and he was the face of America at the time. Americans today blame him for the harsh removal of the Indians and make Jackson out to have been racist against the Indians. Although, during the Creek War Jackson found an abandoned Creek Indian baby. He took the baby to the Creek Nation and tried to find a mother to take the

The debate between the United States and the Native Americans deciding whether or not the United States should give back the Black Hills is a very hectic sort of debate. Nevertheless the United States should not make reparations and grant back the once Native American land known as the Black Hills. This was the land which Native Americans alike used to roam. Although the United States did fight them for this land during the Black Hills War, the Native Americans lost, and the land is now rightfully

History: The law required the government to negotiate the removal treaties voluntarily, Peacefully, and fairly. It did not allow the president or anyone else to force the Native nations into giving up their land. However, President Jackson generally ignored the law and forced Native Americans to abandon lands. In the winter of 1831, under threat of raid by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be dislodged from their land altogether. They made the long and treacherous journey to Indian

Dating back several hundreds of years ago, Native Americans have been deprived, dehumanized, and demoralized ever since Christopher Columbus and his men came and seized the land from the Indigenous Peoples. There have been many tactics that have been used to strip the dignity of the Indigenous Peoples, but the use of an American Indian sports mascot is one tactic that has been in effect since 1932. There are some supporters of these various American Indian sports mascots such as Dan Snyder, the current

Thesis: In 1868 the Lakota tribe signed a peace treaty with the US government giving the tribe all the land west of the Missouri river in South Dakota. In October of 2016 “a sea of thousands of Native Americans from over 200 indigenous nations”(1)came together to fight against fossil fuels. A “1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline, which would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields to pipelines in Illinois” (1)had been laid out. The big problem with the plan of the pipeline was that it was right on