Cherokee

access to land and money in the West if they were to leave their homes in the South. There were five types of Native American groups that were part of the relocating as an effect 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…

weaker”. Essentially, the myth was formulated by the white people to justify taking Native American land because they were interested in expanding the United States. The pervasiveness of the Myth of the Vanishing Indian can demonstrated with the Cherokee removal…

The Trail of Tears begins a short time before the Revolutionary War, roughly 1771, with the birth of a Cherokee names Ridge. Ridge, who was one-quarter Scot, and his family settled in northwest Georgia with several other mixed-blood Cherokees. This territory is where the Cherokee Nation would eventually be centered around. When Ridge reached manhood, around the age of sixteen, he became a warrior. Doublehead, a corrupt Indian chief, taught and instructed Ridge to be a warrior and then took him…

There are a lot 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…

be found by the soldiers. Lastly, the Natives could have become members of a community that was exempted from removal. Constructing an underground refugee transportation route, and utilizing allies between other natives and English allowed for the Cherokee to resist removal from their native lands. Most of the Cherokees…

White Americans often found Native Americans as unfamiliar individuals who occupied land to which the white settlers believed they deserved. America was introduced to an “Indian problem” in which needed to be solved before a crisis occurred. President George Washington believed the answer to America’s “Indian Problem” was to civilize the tribes. This theory indicated a goal in which Native Americans would become as close to white Americans as possible by learning how to read and speak English,…

Native Americans also known as the indians. Either it be a war between the two different races or just fighting over irrelevant things. One of the unforgettable events with Americans and the Native Americans was the Trail of Tears which involves the Cherokee nation. When the Americans moved the indians off of the eastern lands and moved them west, it killed off of thousands of Native Americans making it a very memorable and important impact on American history. Strictly defined, the Trail of…

Andrew Jackson was one of the most powerful presidents in the nineteenth century and often viewed as being the future of the American democracy. As a president, he was not a friend of the Native American population to say the least. This was no surprise considering the numerous campaigns he had led against many of the Indian tribes along the Southern borders as a major general. In his rise to presidency, inequality was very much present, especially among the Native American people. Jacksons view…

I can still remember as if it was yesterday. The moment I first laid eyes on the white man, was the moment I knew things would change. Samira and I are daughters of the chef of the Cherokee tribe, as kids growing up it was forbidden for us to be alone. Wherever we went there was always someone there to guard and to protect us from any danger, but we felt as if we had no freedom . Then, one hot afternoon when the sun was bursting it rays so bright that the heat was untakeable. Samira and I were…

The legal source of Native Americans rights in regards to hunting and fishing can be traced back to the 1800’s. In the 1800’s Native American signed serval treaties with the federal government relinquishing them of their lands. During the abdication of their lands the Native Americans were granted their continual rights to hunting and fishing. Normally, these rights would guaranteed them hunting and fishing rights on the reservation. Due to their not being a clear and concise regulation…