The Tahlequah Agency in Oklahoma has said there were 42,992 Cherokee living in Tahlequah in 1982. The U.S. Census has shown 293,074 Cherokee are living in more than 30 states in the United States. Now the Cherokee Nation is under control of the first woman chief. In November 1983 Wilma Mankiller was elected to the office of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee survived the hardships of the Trail of Tears and the loss of their loved ones. Their population continues to grow despite losing everything that belonged to them (Bruchac …show more content…
A continual war existed between the Navajos and the New Mexicans, which eventually helped lead to the Navajo Long Walk. Apparently every time the Navajos signed a treaty, it was broken by the New Mexicans. In 1845, when the United Sates annexed Texas, they took possession of all of Mexico's Northern provinces. In August of 1946, Gen Stephen Kearney declared control over all citizens of the Territory of New Mexico, including Indian tribes. America thought that the Navajos would make a peace treaty binding all Navajos, but that was not the case. The Navajos were considered independent and if another province made a treaty, they would ignore it and continue to makes raids. The United States did not take this very well because if one Navajo committed a crime then the U.S. believed that all Navajos should be punished. The Americans totally took away the land that was rightfully theirs, but more importantly they took away their pride. "The Navajos fled before them, looking down from the heights above while there hohrahns went up in flames. All their horses and sheep were killed, the canyon floor was left bare, and the spirit of the Indians was broken" (Coolidge 25). Although the Long Walk of the Navajo caused fewer casualties than the Trail of Tears, it seems that it was more of a political issue involving a corrupt government. In today' word