Cherokee

country, than the right of inheritance and immemorial peaceable possession” ("Memorial of the Cherokee Indians," Niles' Weekly Register vol. 38 no. 3, pp 53-54). The Native Americans are explaining to them that the United States has freedom, so how are they any different from Whites, in that they are not allowed to keep land they have inherited and not taken from anyone else. Chief Ross from the Cherokee County, Jeremiah Evarts, and Peleg Sprague all worked hardly and endlessly in expressing how…

He did not feel comfortable living with his family, so he ran away from home. Afterwards a few days later, he decided to join the Cherokee tribe. "He sojourned for three years with the band of Chief Oolooteka, who adopted him and gave him the Indian name Colonneh, or the Raven." (www.tshaonline.org). The relationship was so great with the Cherokee tribe that Houston respected Oolooteka as if he were his real father. Time passed and Houston had to leave the tribe to follow his dreams and…

But, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened and halted the enforcement of these government laws. Those cases were Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worchester v. Georgia (1832), where “the U.S. Supreme Court objected to these practices and affirmed that native nations were sovereign nations “in which the laws of Georgia [and other states] can have no force.” This…

Americans dates all the way back to 1600, when white settlers either forced Native Americans out or sought to convert them and make them assimilate. Georgia, 1827, Americans keep extending their jurisdiction over the Cherokee territory and continuously passing laws that would abolish Cherokee infrastructure. Their land is claimed and given to white Georgians. 1828, President Jackson is elected and immediately sets sight on Cherokees, two years later comes the Indian Removal Act of 1830 where the…

The Westward Expansion has often been regarded as the main factor in the shaping of American history. The expansion of the United States into the territory west of the Mississippi River began with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the nation, and began the infrastructure of building what is now today the United States of America. Several played a big role in determining the nature of this expansion; Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were able…

power to give land west of the Missipppi River in exchange for Indian land. (Primary Documents) When the Cherokee Indians refused to relocate, the United States government forcibly removed them. After approximately 4,000 Indians died on this forced march, it was aptly named “The Trail of Tears”. (Primary Documents) One of Jackson’s main goals during his presidency was western expansion. The Cherokee lived on land that was suitable for growing cotton. His Indian policy was to simply move the…

and patriotism for the nation, caused a growth of enmities towards policies, that exploited the common white man, and towards people like John Ross, the Cherokee Indian chief. “Jackson never liked Ross. He called him a ‘great villain’…the Principal Chief headed a mixed-blood elite, and was intent on centralizing power in his own hands…” (“Cherokee Nation” para 19), Jackson opposed government officers and replaced many of them “because of corruption, incompetency, or because they opposed him…

intimidation of guns and rifles, rounding up Cherokee people into prison stockades thus became the beginning of the Trail of Tears. Why was Andrew Jackson allowed to abuse his power? Is this still seen in today’s times? Andrew Jackson was able to abuse his power because he was the President of the United States. With the knowledge of gold on Indian land, this was enough to do whatever he needed to obtain the land for his own purpose. Jackson took advantage of the Cherokee people knowing that…

The removal was very unjustified because we were unfair and made a lot of people die, we did.This is why the Indian removal act was unjustified and how America can be towards others. Imagine how it would feel to lose your home and have to walk about 1,000 miles to get to your new home.“The Cherokees lost approximately one-fourth of their people to disease, malnourishment, and hardship.”This is only one hardship they faced.√The removal was unjustified because the native Americans owned the land…

If there was one lesson I could teach it would be the gruesome treatment of Native Americans under Andrew Jackson’s presidency. Prior to Jackson’s presidency Native Americans had been treated poorly. Since the arrival of the first Europeans the natives had experienced abuse and enslavement. Some were brutally slaughtered in wars over territory or had been exposed to diseases. Others were forced to assimilate to European ideals. For example, in 1819 Congress had tried to “civilize” the natives by…