Cherokee

The Education of Little Tree; A Book Review The book “The Education of Little Tree”, by Forrest Carter, highlights the invasion of and mistreatment inflicted upon Native Americans, specifically the Cherokee tribe. The book is set in the 1930’s depression era, and begins by telling the story of Forrest and his life with his grandparents, due to the passing of his parents. One day, as Forrest rode the bus with his “granpa and granma” as he called them, an example of racial discourtesy arose. The…

1830, east of the Mississippi, you are a little Indian boy in the midst of playing with his friends on a nice clear day. Suddenly, white soldiers pour into your territory. Those men abruptly pushed you out of your home along with your family. Amongst the yelling of the white soldiers, you hear gunshots echo through your camp. Fellow tribe members fall to the ground, buried in their desperateness to keep their homes. This was called the Indian Removal Act. However, what was the big reason to…

The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee preservation festival several years ago. The young man I have talked with had told me that they are demanded from the government to adapt the endangered Cherokee culture into their everyday lives, which include their younger generations to learn Cherokee languages along with English. Languages are not only a way to communicate, they also represent different cultural…

But having nothing did not stop Native Americans from getting up on their feet and create another strong and powerful nation. After many generations where they carried abundant amount of barriers and adversities, the Cherokee had succeed to have their own reservation. The Cherokee tribe is known to be advanced when it comes to art, hunting, cooking and many other things. They were the only group that had developed a written language, other than that Mayans. The Oconaluftee was on the…

Georgia had territory that he was trying to gain by promising to secure the Cherokee land title in the state. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Jefferson planned to put pressure on the Indians by exchanging the land they owned as a payoff for the trade debts they acquired. In the year of 1814, the Creeks military power would be destroyed by Andrew Jackson (who was proponent of the…

The journey depicted the brutal action that the government underwent to remove the Cherokee out of their land. Around 4,000 Cherokee Natives died and showed the brutal actions that the United States took to strip the Natives of the ancestral land (Stockdale 2). The natives were seen as being uncivilized beings who were known as just being “hunters” or “savages”…

within the time frame Andrew Jackson gave them to leave in, they were forcibly removed at gun point and were not allowed to collect their belongings. Instead, the white men pillaged their villages and took everything the Cherokees had, “Some of the Cherokee left almost naked and without shoes or only in moccasins and refused government clothing because they felt it would be taken as an acceptance of being removed from their homes.” Since the Native Americans are uprooted of everything they…

What was not favorable to Jackson was that Native Americans in the South had gotten stronger and emerged to be potential threats to whites. In addition, gold was discovered in Georgia in 1829, setting of a gold rush in territory inhabited by the Cherokee. The event put pressure on Jackson to somehow get Cherokees out of the land. As Native American tribes started to interfere with white society’s interest, Jackson induced the Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act in which empowered him to lay…

The United States of America is a large and populous country with over 300 million people spread out among the states, but it wasn’t always that way. In the 1830s the U.S government was struggling to expand its nation into the frontier. As a result, many people including Andrew Jackson and even Indians like Elias Boudinot found it necessary to move and push the Native Americans west. Jackson strongly believed that the Native Americans should move further west because it will save them from…

lands. Jackson benefitted himself economically at a cost, which was removing the Indians from the territory without their consent, proving his egotistical behavior. Correspondingly, responses from the Cherokee tribe verified Jackson’s injustice. A cherokee Indian from the “Memorial of the Cherokee Nation,” describes the western land as badly supplied with food and water, unfamiliar cultures, and “wish to die” on this soil (Doc. K). Jackson forced the Indians to surrender their land and failed to…