Choctaw

Native Americans have been oppressed, discriminated against, and mistreated since the Europeans first came to America. Countless Native Americans have died at the hands of white settlers. One of the worst times of their mistreatment, however, was during the removal from their homelands to the land east of the Mississippi. The “Nunna dual Tsuny,” as the Cherokee call it, refers to trails they walked during the forced mass movement of Cherokee people to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma.…

Not many people know or have heard about the Trail of Tears. It might be a subject that some people avoid because it was such a horrible tragedy. The Trail of Tears was a forced Indian march that took place on a very long trail of 1,000 miles that led to an established Indian Territory. Our government were the ones behind this and thought it was right to remove them from their homes. These people suffered even some them died on their journey. In the end if they did survive the trail their whole…

Based on the documents that I studied and the text of the U.S. Constitution, I disagree with the statement that the U.S. government was justified in forcing the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to leave their homeland to move to the Oklahoma territory. I believe that the Natives were cheated out of their land Document One summarizes the uphill battle between the Natives and the settlers. According to Document One, "Land greed was a big reason for the federal government's position…

removal of the Native Americans from the East side of Mississippi. President, Andrew Jackson was a part of the Indian Removal, he got to decide certain situations out on his own. There was five different Indian tribes being at the time, including the Choctaws, the Muskogee, the Chickasaws, the Cherokees, and the Seminoles. These five Indian tribes all lived on their own land that they owned. President Andrew Jackson wanted White settlers from the South side to go out and expand…

The Cherokee Nation The Cherokee Nation was involved in the Civil War as a “foreign ally.” Their location was on Confederate lands, which made them an ally of the rebellion. The Confederacy was highly outnumbered by the Union, so the Cherokee Nation was a benefit for the Confederacy. The weapons they invented were new to the Confederacy, but they quickly learned because it was their only shot at becoming less outnumbered with weapons. The Cherokees made a positive impact on the size of the…

Gean 6 Jessica Gean Ms. Warren English Composition 112 March 2, 2017 The Treacherous Journey of the Trail of Tears Before the British came over to the Americas, the Cherokee Indians, among many other tribes, inhabited these rolling hills, mountains, and plains. Unfortunately, they were removed from their homeland very viciously. The removal of Cherokee Indians is referred to as the Trail of Tears. The journey of the Cherokee Indians from before their removal, their fight to not be removed,…

ruler of the Nation and he was determined to remove the Indians from their land. In 1830, Jackson had signed a very important document which enforced the Indian Removal Act. This Removal Act had affected five “Civilized Tribes” of the South, the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws,…

slave raids. The tenuous partnership began disintegrating more so as early as the 1845 Treaty with the Creeks, which would be temporarily moderated with the elimination of all slavery among the Seminoles and the other Five Civilized Tribes (Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Chickasaw) because of Federal pressures to grant rights and cession of land to the African-American members of the Indian nations. There still existed the racial issue of African-American Freedmen that associated with their…

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 13-1496 Dollar General Corporation, ET AL., Petitioners v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Issue: Whether Indian tribal courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate civil tort claims against non tribe members, including as a means of regulating the conduct of non members who enter into consensual relationships with a tribe or its members. (SCOTUSBlog) Commercial association between…

the Trail of Tears got its name. If you had to partake in this scary journey, you would belong to one of five civilized Native American tribes: the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee or the Seminole tribe. This essay is specifically going to talk about the Choctaw…