Cherokee tribe

of Native American tribes out in the world that not many people are familiar with, Potawatomi is one of them. Before researching I did not know that this tribe still existed today. The Potawatomi Native American tribe goes back a long while in history. “Prior to the 1500 A.D. the Potawatomi tribe migrated to the shores of Lake Michigan” (Loew, 2001, p. 99). They have lived in the Great Lake region for at least four centuries (Potawatomi Culture). The Potawatomi tribe refers to…

of the Indian Removal Act. The five tribes effected by this act were the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. Each of these tribes walked the trails at different times as each tribe was mandated to leave at different times. Following the signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the Choctaw Indian tribe were the first to walk the Trail of Tears in 1831. The Choctaw Indians could have been found in Mississippi. Following the Choctaw tribe, were the Seminole Indians in…

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are not the group of Cherokee Indians you usually hear about in history books. Many people are familiar with Cherokee Indians, but far too many people think that ALL Cherokees walked the Trail of Tears and ended up in present day Oklahoma during the mid 1800’s. Some Cherokee people agreed to the new laws, and together, 1,000 Cherokees purchased 57,000 acres of land of western North Carolina territory. Around 16,000 Cherokees left Appalachia on the Trail of…

Selflessly, Worcester did not make the case only about himself and his unfair conviction, but the question concerning whether the state of Georgia can constitutionally force their authority over who the Cherokee tribe has relations with, and who the Cherokee allow on their land, as well. At the end of the trial, it was concluded by Chief Justice John Marshall that since Worcester was “within the said territory so recognized as belonging to the said nation and so, as aforesaid,…

new lands, and Native woman Sacajawea played an impressive part in that. Nevertheless, disagreements also formed between the Indian nations and the colonists such as the Indian Removal Act and the case of Cherokee Nation versus Georgia which included tribes all over like the five civilized tribes. From being forced off their land to showing and guiding the way for explorers, the Native Americans have a long history in our past dating back hundreds and hundreds of years. All of these things are…

III – Cherokees in the Modern Life a) World War II In 1941, the entry of the United-States into World War II took the minds of the citizens and the government of the US off of matters of interest to Indian tribes. So, Cherokees joined the US military and fought in WWII. This war brought several important and far-reaching changes to Indians in general. Of course, it had redirected the entire budget of the United-States, and many of the programs instituted by the administration of the Bureau of…

hardships and injustice. Even now, tribes continue to be denied what they believe has rightfully been earned by their own tribal government. The Cherokee Nation, the largest federally recognized Native American Nation, has been immersed into a political standoff between members of their own government, congress, and formally Cherokee tribal members over citizenship requirements. Citizenship for Native Americans has continually been a recurring dispute among tribe members concerning the…

The Cherokee Indians had lived in northwest Georgia, but in the 1800s many whites begin to settle there. Georgia believed the state had the right to this land because it was within the borders of Georgia, but the Cherokee Indians had lived there for centuries and felt they had a right to the land. Many Cherokees adapted a more American lifestyle and some became plantation owners or store owners. The Cherokee Nation also created a constitution that was similar to the Constitution of the United…

journey. In the end if they did survive the trail their whole lifestyle was changed and they had to adapt. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson 's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation and other Indian nation were forced to give up their land and to migrate to an established Indian Territory. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The Trail of Tears was trail that consisted of a 1,000 miles that the Native Americans were…

The Cherokee were one of the many tribes that assimilated into the white culture. Although they did exactly what they were expected to do, Andrew Jackson and a few states had trouble grasping onto their assimilation. Jackson went through with a historical event that to this day in American History is known as the Trail of Tears, due to the substantial amounts of deaths that were sprung from it. Jackson had no thought of whether he was doing the right or wrong thing, because to him it was all…