Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

The Trail of Tears Introduction The Trail of Tears was a 1000-2000 mile journey that five tribes had to walk in order to get to their designated land that Andrew Jackson called “Indian Territory.” The Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, were forced out of their homelands, not given any other option but to leave, or be killed trying to stay in their home where you made memories with families and friends. The trail was where thousands of people died from horrible sicknesses,…

1838 and 1839, Andrew Jackson made the Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi river and to migrate to an arena in present-day Oklahoma. The Indians suffered starvation, harsh weather conditions, and many kinds of sicknesses. Nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. President George Washington wanted to civilize the Indians. The Indians would have had to learn to speak the…

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 territory across the Mississippi river. This was the most difficult and deadliest journey known as the Trail of Tears. This paper will discuss the effects of The Trail of Tears had on the Indians. Around the 1800’’s there lived five tribes the came to Oklahoma against their will to…

with the lower Mississippi River. Sections of the original road, however, followed ancient Native American trails that had been in use for thousands of years before European explorers arrived in North America. It once was an essential trade route for farmers, Indians, and boatmen. The Natchez Trace links three of the largest water courses in the United States; Cumberland River, Tennessee River, and Mississippi River. The earliest people known to use the trace were the Mississippi mound…

some other type of illegal activity. Abramoff’s scandal was based mainly around his lobbying work with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and their interests in owning casinos and gambling. His first job in 1995 was to eliminate the bill that was charging an unrelated sales tax to the Native Americans casinos. Abramoff charged ludicrous amounts of money for his services because the Choctaw…

The Native American role in The Civil War is not a subject that has been widely discussed or taught in general United States History classes. However, there has been a fair amount of documentation and research on tribal participation with bands ranging from the Seminoles of the southernmost Florida region to the Delaware tribes of the Northeastern territory. Many people are unaware of the loss of life that the Native Americans suffered as participants of a war they did not have an overwhelming…

In the Supreme Court case Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (2016), the legal issue was over whether or not a tribe has civil sovereignty over corporations that partnered with the tribe within their jurisdiction. The Supreme Court justices were split (the decision occurred after Justice Scalia…