Jeep Grand Cherokee

access to land and money in the West if they were to leave their homes in the South. There were five types of Native American groups that were part of the relocating as an effect of the Indian Removal Act. The five tribes effected by this act were the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. Each of these tribes walked the trails at different times as each tribe was mandated to leave at different times. Following the signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the Choctaw…

pulled up in her F-150 and my dad came pulling in behind her in my aunt’s old Jeep Wrangler. I was curious on why they had brought to cars and I shortly after realized one was for me. My parents thought it would be a good idea for me to start practicing to drive again on the roads of the little town of Deltaville, where the speed limit does not go over 35 MPH. There was one catch to all this and that was that the Jeep was a stick shift, something I had never learned to drive…

Removal Paper While most White Americans supported the Cherokee removal in 1830, many White Americans disagreed with the removal. Many people viewed the Removal as unconstitutional because it infringed on the Cherokees rights as a Sovereign nation. Both the British and American governments had established, in multiple treaties, that the Cherokee were a Sovereign nation. Meaning that land could only be taken by the United States if the Cherokee nation submitted themselves or their land on to the…

Carolina where the descendants of the Eastern Band managed to avoid removal; and a joint council of the Cherokee Nation takes place at Red Clay in Tennessee, the site of the last council meeting before removal. Besides, the Cherokees live through impassable roads leading to four communities, including Big Cove, the most remote and traditional community, which is about twelve miles to the northeast of Cherokee City. It is a secluded little pocket surrounded by forests and irregular ridges. In…

Wilma Mankiller became principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in December 1985, after Ross Swimmer was asked to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She was chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995. Mankiller faced many obstacles as the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. The main challenge she faced was opponents who argued that a woman should not be the chief of the Cherokee Nation. She was also criticized for focusing on social issues and for not creating establishments…

The link between violence and colonialism is seen in newspaper accounts across the globe: “Gandhi Is Killed by A Hindu; India Shaken, World Mourns; 15 Die in Rioting in Bombay Three Shots Fired ”, “54 Dead, 191 Hurt in Riots” in South Africa. Throughout the course of history, colonialism has often been depicted as violence on the innocents by an aggressor, all in all a very one sided series of violent oppressive acts by the colonial power upon a weaker subjugate indigenous group. However, with…

The only way to truly understand someone is when you have gone through what this person has gone through. In Custer Died for Your Sins, Vine Deloria Jr. says “Anyone and everyone who knows an Indian or who is interested, immediately and thoroughly understands them.” White people believed that Indians are so easy to read and so understandable, meanwhile they have no idea what difficulties and struggles they went through. The Indians got stereotyped for being something that isn’t true and their…

land. By pushing the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, it showed that they would take a desperate action just to get what they most desired. Taking advantage of the Native Americans, the Jackson Administration’s decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s continued the economic policies but significantly changed…

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…

and had no supplies or help from the government. A Choctaw leader called it a ‘trail of tears and death.’ The removal process continued, and the government drove the Creeks from their lands. Over three thousand died on the trip to Oklahoma. The Cherokee people were divided between leaving or staying to fight. But by 1838, only 2,000 Cherokees left their homeland. President Martin Van Buren sent soldiers to expedite the process, where the Native Americans were forced to arch over 1,200 miles to…