Mormon Trail

If you had been forced away from your family, community, and culture (as Native children were until the mid-1980s) how might you have turned out differently? What would you have missed learning without your personal cultural influences? The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that…

Indian Removal In 1976 Mr. Marvin J. Sonosky, Mr. Reid Chambers, and Mr. Harry Sachse established a Law Firm for the sole purpose of representing American Indian tribes. Sadly Mr. Sonosky passed away in July of 1997 due to heart failure. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Sachse continued his work and added partners to the Firm and continued to help and support American Indian Tribes (Reid Chambers & SCSE&P, LLP.) Growing up surrounded by people who have dedicated their lives to making other people’s…

The Trail of tears is an historical trail that crosses over many states, including Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. This vast piece of land was to commemorate the death of approximately 4000 Native American lives. In the early 1830’s, it had only been a few decades since America had been founded.The white settlers who were new to the land began to explore it with intent to claim it as their own territory. Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of…

Most people are aware of the devastating effects The Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee people and some people may question why this horrible event had to take place and what kind of President was Andrew Jackson to not only let but to fight tooth and nail for this policy. Though much has been written about the injustices that the Native Americans endured during the Trail of Tears very little attention has been given to why the people of that time would allow this forced removal to take place.…

The Trail of Tears is one of the most known Indian walks in the world. The Federal Government under President Jackson made a sum of around 18,000 Indians from many different tribes walk 800 miles. During the journey, a brutal winter had occurred and 4,000 Indians died on the trail from cold weather, old age, or hunger. The Indians trail started in Georgia and ended on the west side of the Mississippi River. In this article, Kay Muther states that Colonel George Crook became Commander of…

Indian Removal Was or Wasn’t unjustified Written by: Jerah Green The first people in America were the Indians, they know and cherished that land. We took their land when we first came and then congress wanted to take more and more, but is it justified that they should push them out again. That is what the United States congress was debating. The U.S. had promised that land to the Indians, then they try to break that promise. That doesn’t make them as Americans look very good or trustworthy.…

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…

The Trail of Tears was a forced journey that took place for about 125,000 Native Americans from 1831-1838. These Native Americans were from different states in the Southern United States such as: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina. The Trail of Tears is what took place after the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The government forced these 125,000 Native American’s out of their homes near the Appalachian Mountains, to relocate in Oklahoma. The trail from the Appalachian Mountains…

eighteenth century. In fact, the city of Boston, through the National Park Service, offers several tours for visitors including the tour of the Freedom Trail as well as the Black Heritage Trail tour in order to provide several unique perspectives of the freedom struggle that once took place in Boston and the United States as a whole. The Freedom Trail tour, Meeting, Mobs, and Martyrs takes visitors on a southbound tour from Faneuil Hall and covers the tension that arose between the United States…

lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community.” Jackson explains the removal of the Native Americans in terms of protecting their safety from white people. In order to protect the ‘uncivilized’ Natives, they must be kept separate, and as such, they must be removed. In Jackson’s mind, the Natives had to be…