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    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…

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    Smoky Mountains which stretched through North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. In the first paragraph, I will talk about the Cherokee villages. In Cherokee villages, there was an wall to keep intruders out of their territory. There were over 100 villages in the Cherokee nation, they were all connected by the great cherokee path. Cherokee villages had several large cornfields, to feed plants they stay next to bodies of water. Cherokee’s would have summer and winter houses to…

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    The year was 1838; approximately 16,000 Cherokees were forced off of their tribal lands by the United States Government, on a march later known to the Indians as the Trail of 4,000 Tears known to us as the Trail of Tears. They were forced to leave their homes and everything they held dear to their hearts. This treatment was unfair to the Natives after everything they helped us with. The removal of Native Americans from their lands by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 violated their political, legal…

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    Tecumseh Vision Film Reaction For anything to get accomplish that effects the community there has to be unity within the community. One person cannot accomplish anything that effects the community on their own they need the support of others. When Tecumseh decided to take his homeland from the American colonist he didn’t dare try to do it on his own. He knew he needed the help of other Indigenous people to make this dream a reality. With the help of his brother, other Indigenous people and the…

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    After living among the Cherokee in North Georgia as a missionary, I have discovered that the Indian peoples are quite useful. They are all civilized in their own way and know how to work hard for the things that they receive. Their work and harvest skills are impeccable and would be an excellent asset to any community. Although many of the white settlers coming to Georgia wish to dispose of the Indians, it would ultimately be more beneficial for them to stay. The Indians should be able to stay…

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    Cherokee Nation v Georgia was a United States Supreme Court case in the 1831. It was “one of the ten worst cases” (pg.87). “The Cherokee Nation was the first Indian tribe that went to the federal court in a major lawsuit to protect the political, human, and property rights of an American Indian tribe and its member from destruction by a state” (Pg.87). The case of the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was filed by the Cherokee Nation one of America’s most well-known Native American tribes. Using this…

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    Cherokee Indian Burial

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    Transitions to a New World Cherokee ceremonial and burial rites are held very sacred and with highest of respects. The Cherokee Indians who are descendants of their sister tribe the Iroquois, lived in the southeastern parts of the United States until forced off their land and onto reservations during the mid-1800s. The Cherokees were forced to sacrifice many of their customs and rites, by the White European settlers which considered it Paganistic according to their Christian religion. Surviving…

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    Miccosukee Seminole Indian tribe Over 200 years ago, the Miccosukee tribe have been known by its characteristic way of fighting to protect their territory. First, the Spaniards, and then even worse, the Anglo-American who tried to exterminate the Miccosukee’s Indians almost two centuries ago and who eventually left them no other option than to live in a very small place in ancestral areas of the Everglades in Miami. The Indians seeking for a decent style of life had to adapt themselves to sleep…

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    the Indians took the form of legal, public, and political advocacy in order to equal the balance of the committee of Georgia as well as the Removal Act that President Andrew Jackson had come up with. According to David R. Kimberly, even though the Cherokee Indians and the ABCFM did all they could to keep the Indian tribes where they were, the groups were not able to prevent the tragedy known as today The Trail of…

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    Before 1860s, many Native Americans moved west in a journey called the Trail of Tears. Many Native Americans in the west died due to starvation and disease. The Native American population continued to dwindle. As war and expansion continued throughout history, Native Americans began submit to white rule. Native Americans in the west went from violently resisting whites in the 1860s to appeasing whites by the Reconstruction period because of the Civil War. In the 1860s, Native Americans in the…

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