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Westward Expansion

 

(Fish p. 92)" His accounts describe Indian families reading from the Bible, attending school, and living in what was considered a "white" way of life. The Cherokees became a nation as they created a constitution and a class rank of people. They developed an alphabet and published their own newspaper. The Cherokee were convinced that if they continued to adopt the Anglo-American way of life they would gain the respect of white settlers and be considered equals. It is obvious that The Cherokees developed into a fully efficient tribe. Their hierarchy and ways of life mirrored that of the white government, and they gave that government every chance to accept them as brothers, but they did not. As stated in William Penn's "A Brief View of the Present Relations between the Government and People of the United States and the Indians Within Our National limits," "Those Indian tribes and nations, which have remained under their own form of government, upon their own soil, and have never submitted themselves to the government of the whites, have a perfect right to retain their original form of government, according to their own views (Penn p.97)" As described in William Penn's essay, the government led by Andrew Jackson refused to find respect for the Indian people. The drive for wealth and status fueled a materialistic way of life for the new colonists. Little thought was taken for the welfare of the Cherokees or any other tribe in a time period that felt they were inferior. In Lewis Cass's "Removal of Indians" there are many examples of the common feelings towards Indians by white settlers. Cass states, "A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community." I feel that removal was inevitable based primarily on the fact that tribes that had become self sufficient were still ignored and dislocated.


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