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Osiyo! Thats hello in cherokee. I’m Adahy nice to meet you. I’m 10 years old and a boy. I live in western North Carolina, but my relatives used to live in the more southern states til they got forced on the Trail Of Tears by Andrew Jackson’s troops. That wasn’t fair. The Cherokee brought the situation to supreme court and the judge was on their side. Andrew Jackson was greedy for land and didn’t listen to the judge . He still sent the native americans on the Trail Of Tears. I really don’t…

The peace between the Native Americans and the Europeans settlers did not last very long due to years of mistrust and fighting for control of land both laid claim to. Tensions reached a boiling point during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Jackson became a leading advocate for the removal of Native Americans from their lands. In his first and second annual address to Congress, Andrew Jackson presented his controversial stance on forcing the Native Americans out of United States territory. His…

citizens. In contrast, Andrew Jackson supported state 's legal rights and also stand tall against the Southern Carolina. On the other hand, he also didn 't took any kind of former action after the Georgia claimed land which had been guaranteed to Cherokee people under federal laws. He further insisted that Georgia does not have any particular authority over Native American tribal lands. In 1835, the Cherokees Indians gave all their lands to Arkansas after signing a treaty where Trail of Tears…

their land in a spiritual sense, tribes like the Cherokee, where legal owners of their land that the cherished.7 The white settlers only had one reason for their need to take the Indian land: greed. They wanted the gold, that was recently found in Georgia, for themselves and also wanted to set up plantations to grow crops to ship up north to become rich. These settlers hated the Indians simply because they had legitimate claims on their land. The settlers didn 't understand that the land meant…

This point is important because despite this, the general populace continued to characterize them as savages (The Trail of Tears — The Indian Removals, n.d.). The state of Georgia initially attempted to take the land away from the Cherokee via annexation, but the Cherokee people fought back by bringing the case to the United States Supreme Court. The Cherokee Nation won the case, but it didn’t matter; Jackson claimed authority…

the Ross party. Those under the treaty party complied with the government to relocate and the Ross party wanted to come to an agreement because they refused to give up their land. The matter went to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the Marshall court ruled that the Cherokees were not a sovereign and independent nation, and therefore refused to hear the case. The treaty party secretly signed a treaty to give up their land. The Ross party was irate because the treaty…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor, activist, humanitarian, and a great leader for the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His legal name was Michael King and so was his fathers but the reason they changed their names is to honor the great reformer Martin Luther. King made a friend with a white boy when he was six and the father found out and he told his son to never be friends with Martin every again because of his color. King fell into…

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, whom do we think of? Of course, Christopher Columbus comes to mind. Yet, the first people on land were the native people. Native people were the first people to set foot on this soil, long before any white person. Regrettably, the federal government brutally attacked and removed from the Indians from homelands that they dearly loved. Native people was forced to walk thousands of miles to a specific place “Indian…

The Creek Indians were a powerful and bold group of individuals that united to protect themselves from larger groups of Indians in the Southern region of America. Creek established towns could be found throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina in woodland areas along winding creeks or rivers. As the Creeks settled in different areas, they took their culture with them. Their town square was used for many events: festivals, dances, rituals and even council meetings when the weather…

the Mississippi River to an area in present-day Oklahoma.. American Indians’ homelands were destroyed and taken from them. Their cultures were also dramatically altered or even destroyed. The Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and Alabama. A man named De Soto took captives for use as slave labor and others to be abused. Many new treaties and laws were made to prevent these Native American tribes from settling on certain land and restrict them from many other things.…