Trail of Tears

1830, east of the Mississippi, you are a little Indian boy in the midst of playing with his friends on a nice clear day. Suddenly, white soldiers pour into your territory. Those men abruptly pushed you out of your home along with your family. Amongst the yelling of the white soldiers, you hear gunshots echo through your camp. Fellow tribe members fall to the ground, buried in their desperateness to keep their homes. This was called the Indian Removal Act. However, what was the big reason to…

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…

built to honor and remember victims of the devastation. The Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) is a nonprofit organization that, “…support the creation, development, and interpretation of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail,” (Trail of Tears Association, 2016). The organization also works closely with the National Park Service in order promote protection of the trail as well as other important historical sites. The Trail of Tears Association has nine branches in nine different states. The…

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.…

Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1986. Thurman Wikins discusses how the Cherokee Indians traveled during the Trail of Tears period and what their conditions were like. Thurman Wikins argues that several of the Cherokee Indians traveled by boat to get to the Indian Territory during the Trail of Tears period. Wikins describes the boat travel as less exhausting and less dangerous for the Cherokee Indians during the removal. According to Thurman…

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…

more room for the settlers. The settlers also wanted the land to themselves so they could make a profit off of it. Many of the Native Americans suffered from starvation and diseases while moving west and they died. This journey is known as “The Trail of Tears”. The United States committed an act of genocide to the Native Americans by ignoring their rights, forcing them to move from their homes, and making them walk a long…

white culture. Although they did exactly what they were expected to do, Andrew Jackson and a few states had trouble grasping onto their assimilation. Jackson went through with a historical event that to this day in American History is known as the Trail of Tears, due to the substantial amounts of deaths that were sprung from it. Jackson had no thought of whether he was doing the right or wrong thing, because to him it was all driven by the desire for more power from the people who elected him.…

(Boggs 30) Most of the Cherokee had to walk the nearly 1,000 miles to their new home. Few were given the opportunity to ride horses along the way because the soldiers had stolen the horses. Because of these adverse conditions Cherokee died along the Trail…

Treacherous Journey of the Trail of Tears Before the British came over to the Americas, the Cherokee Indians, among many other tribes, inhabited these rolling hills, mountains, and plains. Unfortunately, they were removed from their homeland very viciously. The removal of Cherokee Indians is referred to as the Trail of Tears. The journey of the Cherokee Indians from before their removal, their fight to not be removed, their travel conditions, and the actual event of the Trail of Tears was…