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In the United States, during the 1800s, as the population in the East began to increase, Americans started to move westward into previously occupied Native American lands. As they moved, two groups clashed: White settlers versus Native Americans, with White settlers forcing the Natives further and further west. During the Antebellum period, early Americans used their religion and their belief that Western culture was superior to justify taking over and occupying the Native American lands, taming…

The Choctaw Nation, a proud member of the five civilized tribes, is native to the southeastern section of the United States. They can trace their ancestry back to Mississippi and even some parts of Louisiana and Alabama. Culturally, the Choctaws are a matriarchal society, which mainly survived off agriculture, hunting, and gathering. Specifically, they pride themselves on their history of complete adaptation into the European society. The Choctaw Nation accepted foreign religion, ethics,…

In 1838 The Trail of Tears was an exodus that the United States government enforced for many Native American tribes including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and the Creeks to migrate to reservations west of 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…

The Trail of Tears was a tough fought journey for the Cherokee people which began decades prior to their removal. In the early days of the New Republic, after signing treaties with the federal government, the Cherokee had thought their nation was safe. However, other agreements were made with the state of Georgia, the state where there nation was to be found, which led to the conflicts. Ultimately, the Cherokee were forced to relocate to the West. Despite their opposition to inner and outer…

Jackson acted more like a king more than a common man. He Acted more like a king than the common man because of the spoils system, Indian removal act, and the war with the bank of the US. The Spoils system is about a president filling his cabinet with people who will never say no to him (Jacksonian Democracy google Slide). This would make it good for only a selected few, not for everyone. This would make him like a king to others because they would follow only his words, which is one of the…

Throughout history and into today, Native Americans have been subject to harsh policies enacted by the United States government. Some of the most crippling policies came out of the Allotment and Assimilation era. This included the breaking up of Native lands, taking children away to boarding schools, and forcing private ownership of land. These policies pulled Native Americans into poor economic conditions and sought to destroy the traditional Native way of life. The Dawes act was the first…

After 30 years, the Ponca tribe had gave the U.S more land in Nebraska leaving the tribe with 58,000 acres of land. Later, Andrew Jackson had become President and created a law to have all the Native Americans move out of Nebraska, solely for the U.S, so they could start having people live there and start a farm and start growing crops. Standing Bear and other tribe leaders did not favor the new law and wanted to eliminate the law. The tribe had to walk a path to get to Oklahoma, the path was…

He states, “By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid” (Jackson, 2). Jackson demonstrates…

Since the arrival of the Europeans in America, The native Indians had been under a lot of pressures. Acculturation, broken treaties, assimilation and removal policies had a few, if any, positive impacts on the Native Americans. The purpose of this paper is about the Indian removal policies that was created by an American president Andrew Jackson. In the development of this research, the removal of the Cherokees to land west of the Mississippi will be the center of attention . It’s important…

A SOLUTION TO THE “INDIAN PROBLEM” 1887 As American power and populace developed in the nineteenth century, the Unified States continuously dismissed the fundamental standard of bargain making—that clans were self-representing countries—and started approaches that undermined innate sway. For Indian countries, these arrangements brought about broken settlements, immense land misfortune, expulsion and movement, populace decay, and social devastation. Native American Policy can be characterized as…