The Trail of Tears is one of the most known Indian walks in the world. The Federal Government under President Jackson made a sum of around 18,000 Indians from many different tribes walk 800 miles. During the journey, a brutal winter had occurred and 4,000 Indians died on the trail from cold weather, old age, or hunger. The Indians trail started in Georgia and ended on the west side of the Mississippi River. In this article, Kay Muther states that Colonel George Crook became Commander of Arizona Territory and wanted to study the territory by expedition. For the expedition, Crook gathered a party of people including fifty Mexican scouts and five companies of Calvary. On his expedition, Crook and his party first stop was Camp Apache. He released the
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Kimberly says that “the purpose of this article to review the assistance the ABCFM extended to the Cherokees from the establishment of the Brainerd Station up to the imprisonment of the ABCFM missionary Samuel A. Worcester and the Supreme Court’s Worcester vs. Georgia judgment of 1832.” (pg.92) The ABCFM was between the questioning of the relationship between the church and state and competing loyalties. David R. Kimberly said that the individual ABCFM was not a unanimous missionary group against the removal of the Indians. Pressure grew stronger between the missionaries and the federal government. As the ABCFM did not agree to the removal of the Indians to the west, the group still stood by the Cherokees to support and honor the treaties the Indians had made. The support the ABCFM gave to the Indians took the form of legal, public, and political advocacy in order to equal the balance of the committee of Georgia as well as the Removal Act that President Andrew Jackson had come up with. According to David R. Kimberly, even though the Cherokee Indians and the ABCFM did all they could to keep the Indian tribes where they were, the groups were not able to prevent the tragedy known as today The Trail of
Kimberly says that “the purpose of this article to review the assistance the ABCFM extended to the Cherokees from the establishment of the Brainerd Station up to the imprisonment of the ABCFM missionary Samuel A. Worcester and the Supreme Court’s Worcester vs. Georgia judgment of 1832.” (pg.92) The ABCFM was between the questioning of the relationship between the church and state and competing loyalties. David R. Kimberly said that the individual ABCFM was not a unanimous missionary group against the removal of the Indians. Pressure grew stronger between the missionaries and the federal government. As the ABCFM did not agree to the removal of the Indians to the west, the group still stood by the Cherokees to support and honor the treaties the Indians had made. The support the ABCFM gave to the Indians took the form of legal, public, and political advocacy in order to equal the balance of the committee of Georgia as well as the Removal Act that President Andrew Jackson had come up with. According to David R. Kimberly, even though the Cherokee Indians and the ABCFM did all they could to keep the Indian tribes where they were, the groups were not able to prevent the tragedy known as today The Trail of