Chickasaw

Indian Removal In 1976 Mr. Marvin J. Sonosky, Mr. Reid Chambers, and Mr. Harry Sachse established a Law Firm for the sole purpose of representing American Indian tribes. Sadly Mr. Sonosky passed away in July of 1997 due to heart failure. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Sachse continued his work and added partners to the Firm and continued to help and support American Indian Tribes (Reid Chambers & SCSE&P, LLP.) Growing up surrounded by people who have dedicated their lives to making other people’s…

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…

Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist and an associate professor at the University of Colorado. She is traveling there to search out her Chickasaw roots according to elders. She explains how in traditional native American thought everything on the land has value and is considered sacred; everything is living .She says “the mud…

Since the beginning of the week, when I read the syllabus for this class, I have been circling the questions posed. I have thought about these questions before yet never truly came up with a solution that satisfied me. Then tonight my son walked up with his stuffed dog in tears that he neglected Nashoba. If you are not familiar with the name, it is the word wolf in Choctaw. I found it ironic that here I am trying to write about what to call a collection of many different, for lack of different…

An American Jewish woman and a Chickasaw Indian woman, what could they possibly have in common? While there are clear differences, they also share some similarities. Elizabeth Ehrlich, in her book Miriam’s Kitchen, recounts her journey through the Jewish faith and her life as she struggles through keeping kosher. Linda Hogan, in her book Dwellings, shares her spiritual experience as Chickasaw Indian and her love and connection with the earth and all that inhabit it. While they differ on many…

During my historical visit I visited the Tennessee state Museum in Downtown Nashville. The Tennessee State Museum is an extensive historical center in Nashville showing the historical backdrop of the U.S. condition of Tennessee. Beginning from pre colonization and going into the twentieth century, the exhibition hall translates the Frontline, the time of President Andrew Jackson and the American Civil War. The historical center's addition of outfits, weapons, and fight banners from the Civil War…

The trail of tears can be defined as, the route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. The Indian removal act was passed by congress and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The law was approved by the president to negotiate with the Indian tribes in the southern united…

The events of the Trail of Tears are some of the most tragic in the history of the country, but also the least talked about. While Native American relocation took roughly two years, the events that led to the removal of the Native Americans from their land can be traced back decades. From Andrew Jackson’s treaty after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, to the establishment of a new Cherokee capital in Oklahoma, the story of Indian relocation is a sad one but is still an ultimately American one. The…

The Indian Wars were the multiple conflicts between American settlers or the United States government and the native peoples of North America from the time of earliest colonial settlement until 1924. Warfare between Europeans and Indians was common in the seventeenth century. In 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy nearly wiped out the struggling Jamestown colony. Frustrated at the continuing conflicts, Nathaniel Bacon and a group of vigilantes destroyed the Pamunkey Indians before leading an…

Andrew Jackson was President of the United States from 1824-1836. He was a controversial president. In many ways, Andrew Jackson abused his power and acted like a “king”, often destroying people and institutions by his actions. In nearly taking the nation to war to enforce the tariff, in sending thousands of people to their death in the “Trail of Tears”, and in taking down the U.S economy by destroying the National Bank, Andrew Jackson proved to be a tyrannical president. The first way Jackson…