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Kristin Quick Term Project 3-7-2016 How the Cherokee Nation Can Overcome Generational PTSD. The Removal Act of 1830, that forced the Cherokee Indians from their homelands with just the clothes on their backs have created tragic effects which have continued to be passed down from generation to generation, causing a near loss of the Cherokee culture. In 1838, the United States Military utilizing surprise attacks, snatched Cherokee families from their homes, work, and play at bayonet point to face

discovers how the Cherokee Indians overcome their hardships and flourish into a new, thriving community. In this novel, the audience observe how these Cherokee Indians outlast the harsh environment during the Indian Removal Act. Additionally, Glancy creates a human experience during the Trail of Tears; giving a different perspective of various characters. Through the eyes of characters such as Maritole and Knobowtee, the reader is able to sense the desperation that the Cherokee endured. The upheaval

the document edited by Miriam Schneir “Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiment and Resolutions” and its failure to include ethnic women. To further address the reality of degradation that slave, native, and impoverished women faced, the articles, “Cherokee women and the Trail of Tears” by Theda Purdue and “Reading Bodies and Marking Race” written by Walter Johnson and “Industrial Revolution on Women” by Dubois Dumenil will reveal the lack of political opposition and the “invisibility” of the experiences

Isabelle Grala 7th Period Walley Removal of The Cherokee In 1838, the Cherokee Indian Removal Act forced Cherokee and Creek Indians out of Georgia on a 5,045 mile walk all the way to the farthest west land that the United States had at the time, Oklahoma[1]. This event is now known as The Trail of Tears known for the many tears shed by the Indians that had to travel on the trail. The main reason for their removal from the premises was because of the gold that was discovered in the land of the

"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Those were the infamous words of General Philip H. Sheridan to a Comanche Chief named Toch-a-way when the chief introduced himself as “a good Indian.” General Sheridan wasn’t the first to see it that and way and he surely wasn’t the last. There is evidence to conclude that a genocide did in fact happen to the Native Americans. Native Americans also known as Indians have been persecuted and targeted from the day the first Europeans stepped foot

Andrew Jackson became the nation’s seventh president from 1829-1837 after becoming elected during 1828. During this time, Andrew Jackson did many things during his presidency. Some of the events he was involved in include opposing the Second Bank of the United Sates, the battle over South Carolina, and the Indian Removal Act. Upon all of those events, the Indian Removal can be seen as a point when Andrew Jackson had a positive intension for the removal of Indians, but even with a positive intension

When it came to land, America would do anything for it, even if it meant sending an entire population of people away from their homeland. The Trail of Tears was a two-month long trek though freezing harsh terrain resulting in one third of the Cherokee Nation being wiped out. Some say the US removed the natives from their land because they were a different race. However, the main reason the US wanted the land so bad was purley out of greed. The US saw profit in the native lands. The US wanted the

Until the 1600's a tribe living in the Eastern Woodlands of America called the Shawnees inhabited the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains in areas between the Ohio Valley and the Mississippi River, this tribe has faced many hardships and were left feeling resentful for all the unjust they’ve encountered. My why question is derived from reading chapter 16 of World Together World Apart Volume 2 and its relevant to our course because no one really discusses how the American settlers colonized the

North American west. Gold was found on the Cherokee land during the Georgia Gold Rush. The greed that it created was one of the leading causes of the Trail of Tears where thousands of Native Americans were forcibly relocated from their native lands (Cherokee.org). Little did the Native Americans realize that the new nation that was going to be forming around them would affect not only their lives but the lives of their descendants. Even though the Cherokee made efforts to keep their land through the

The Cherokee Indians have lived on the North American continent far longer than anyone of British decent. Yet they were removed in a brutal manner from their homeland, on which they have lived for countless centuries. This journey of removal is called the Trail of Tears, which had a horrendous effect on the Cherokees. In 1791, the United States began negotiations with the Cherokee nation. However, Americans began moving onto Cherokee land and forcing them away due to want/need of land for farming