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The Trail Of Tears

             Gloria Jahoda, the author of The Trail of Tears talks about how Indian populations dropped and how white people are the ones responsible for the drop of their population. The white men are not responsible for the drop of the Indian population. Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. Johoda is making excuses for Indians because Indians let the white man take over their lives and life style.
             Indians would do everything that was asked of them by the white man instead of standing up for themselves. The Choctaws were granted citizenship in the exception of them not living their everyday life style. Under citizenship, the tribal government of the Choctaws was abolished. Choctaws was given heavy fines and even jail time if the Choctaws dishonored the demands of the white man for their citizenship. Chief Moshulatubbee was shocked so he decided to run for congress. Mississippians took Moshulatubbee wanting to run for congress as a joke. Moshulatubbee lost. The lost started a civil war among the Choctaws. No matter what the Choctaws did they did not get their way. When leaving Mississippi some of the Choctaws died of diseases and of hunger. So the Choctaws gave in and again let the white man take control of them.
             One of the presidents of the United States, Andrew Jackson went to war with Indians hopping to get rid of the Indians. Black Hawk was a 62-year-old Indian who hated Americans. Black Hawk says that American promises are empty. When ever Americans told Black Hawk that they would do something for the Indians the Americans would never do what they promised. Black Hawk decided to take the side of the British. When ever the British said they would do something for the Indians the British would always do what they promised. Black Hawk always carried a British medal around his neck he respected the British a great deal. Andrew Jackson the president of the United States at the time came face to face with Black Hawk.


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1. Trail of Tears

... . For the good of the Indians, Andrew Jackson humbly believed, but was it truly for the profit of himself and the country first before the good of the Indians (Andrew Jackson's case for removal of the Indians). Works Cited Ellis, Jerry. Walking the trail: One man's journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. New York: Dell Publishing, 1991. Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians. Online. America Online. 20 March 2001. Brill, Marlene Tars. The Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Journey ... from home. Connecticut: The Millbrook Press, Inc., 1995. ...

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2. Trail of Tears

... . Some tribesmen even joined the Confederate forces during the Civil War. Before the forced settlement to the Indian Territory, the members of the Five Tribes, some which were traditionally enemies, shared many cultural traits. They all relied primarily on maize agriculture, fishing, hunting, and foraging as means for subsistence. The state flower of Georgia, the Cherokee Rose, is a symbol of the pain and suffering of the "Trail of Tears". The legend says that "The mothers of the Cherokee grieved so much ... that the chiefs prayed for a sign to lift the mother's spirits and give them str...

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3. Trail of Tears

... for food and clothing. For most of the Cherokee people October 1838 is the month the "Trail of Tears" began. Throughout the month, wagon trains departed from the stockades. Chief John Ross would be the last Cherokee exile, "carrying the records and laws of the Cherokee Nation with him. By this time there were 5000 Cherokees trapped east of the Mississippi by the harsh winter" (Trail of tears National Historic Trail web site). Between the poor health, long journey and extreme ... cold weather conditions many of them did not ... ...

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4. Trail of Tears

... that Georgia did not have the right to force the Natives off of their land. This was a ruling that President Jackson refused to enforce and the removal continued. In 1838, the US Army forced the Cherokees west of the Mississippi. They were the last of the Natives to be removed. This is known as the "Trail of Tears". "An estimated 4,000 dies from hunger, exposure and disease; the journey became known as the "trail were they cried" for ... the Cherokees and other removed tribes (Cherokee)." Jacksonian Democracy was exposed, for ... ...

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5. The Native American Trail of Tears

... homeland, where they had resided for centuries. The voyage of removal is known as the Trail of Tears. The effects on the Cherokees Indians before the removal before and during the removal, and after the Trail of Tears were devastating. The Cherokee Native Americans were a distinct people. When the Cherokee spoke, they did so one at a time. After the speaker was through he or she would ... fall quiet, and listen to the other. "A Cherokee woman had more rights and power than European women " (Ehle 2). Cherokee women had the ... moved westward. Native Americans from five different tribes w...

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6. Trail of Tears

... Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Chiefs of tribes and representatives of the United States met to discuss a bill recently passed by the Congress. This day started with all the same good intentions of those today but ended with only a few Native Americans signing the treaty which allowing for the removal of all Indian peoples to the west of the Mississippi River. ( Brill, The Trail of tears: The Cherokee journey from home.) The Choctaw were told that the Americans in Washington cared ... little for the situation. They wanted the Choctaw ... ...

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7. Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears

... party also owned slaves. Some Indians also had no other choice but to join the government fight in the Civil War. The lands of Native Americans were struggling to rebuild after walking in the Trail of Tears, were being destroyed and torn apart by the Civil War Combat. It was once again slipping from the Indian hands leaving them in even deeper poverty that they once were. Like it ... outside interference- throughout our homeland".4 Some can agree that as living creatures, the Indians as other humans, have the right to remain in their country without being kicked out. The Trail of Tears w...

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8. Trail of Tears

... give in to the wishes of the US government. In the spring and summer of 1838, more than 15,000 Cherokee Indians were removed by the US Army from their homeland in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. They were then forced to travel over 1,000 miles. Thousands of people died. The Cherokees soon came to call the this Trail of Tears.          The journey not only affected the Cherokee, but symbolized the removal of the other Southeastern ... and Eastern Indian tribes. The result of US Government American Indian Removal Policy, the forced movements devastated Indian culture...

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9. Andrew Jackson and the Indians

... Anthony F.C. Wallace in June of 1993. The Long, Bitter Trail follows the history of Andrew Jackson and the Indians. In this compelling book, Anthony F.C. Wallace focuses on the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears, the Indians of the Southeast took to what is now present day Oklahoma. Central person in this story was Andrew Jackson. When he became president of the United States, he had to make a decision on the Indian removal act. Andrew ... major proponents. Anthony F.C. Wallace also explains how racists white people treated the Native Americans and forced them to leave th...

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10. The Oppression of American Indians

... , coerced, or forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, leading to incidents such as the Trail of Tears in the late 1830's. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed by Andrew Jackson. This occurred as a result of the discovery of gold in territories in the West. Greed was tolerated when it supported national objectives, (Villarde). The federal government tolerated and even encouraged resource extraction ... , who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for ...

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