...Cherokee Indian Tribe Robert W. Dockett SOC/262 October 6, 2015 Veretta Nix Cherokee Indian Tribe The Cherokee Indian Tribe has a long and rich standing in North America. The Cherokee Indians were one of the first non-European ethnic groups to become citizens of the United States. The Cherokee tribes have dealt with attempts to relocate them to less desirable lands in North America along with being in wars such as the French and Indian War, and Cherokee-American Wars. Cherokee tribes were quick to latch on to European and American ideologies and used them to their benefit. The Cherokee Nation has been a large part of the Native American tradition in North America. The Cherokee Indian Tribe has dealt with their fair shares of ups and downs in the United States. It is believed that the Cherokee Indians were originally settled in the Great Lakes region of North America, and then migrated south. They did so knowing that there were other Iroquoian-speaking tribes in the south. Early Cherokee Indians were primarily found in what is now Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. In the 1830’s the Indian Removal Act forced many Cherokee Indians into Oklahoma and Arkansas. Today the Cherokee Nations headquarters is in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are also satellite communities within the Cherokee nation, many of them being in the southern states in North America. This resulted due to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians. In the 1800’s many different Indian tribes...
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...for all Americans and invited tariffs on agricultural exports. * Congress increased the general tariff in 1824. * Supporters of Andrew Jackson promoted a high-tariff bill. It was passed in 1828. * The Tariff of 1828 was also called the "Yankee Tariff,” the "Black Tariff" and the "Tariff of Abominations.” * It was hated by Southerners because it was an extremely high tariff and they felt it discriminated against them. * Southern states formed formal protests. * The South was having economic struggles and the tariff was a scapegoat. * Denmark Vesey led a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. * The South Carolina Exposition: * Published in 1828. * Written by John C. Calhoun. * It was a pamphlet that denounced the Tariff of 1828 as unjust and unconstitutional. * It proposed that the states should nullify the tariff and declare it null and void within their borders. "Nullies" in the South * Congress...
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...Understand the circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase The circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase were the transcontinental railroad that would connect Atlantic to the Pacific that allowed settlers a faster and safer way to California and the West. It led to the now famous Lois and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. We championed westward expansion and exploration which doubled the size of the landscape. He fanned fundamental disagreement about the spread of slavery to the western territories. Jefferson learned that Spain had transferred title to the entire region to France. Congressmen urged Jefferson to prepare for war against France. When he heard that Napoleon had become impatient for his money, Jefferson rushed the treaty to a Senate eager to ratify it. Know the function of cities in Jeffersonian America The function of cities in Jeffersonian America became important commercial ports. They became deports for international trade. Only about 7 percent of the nation’s population lived in urban centers. Most of these people owed their livelihoods either directly or indirectly to the carrying trade (major port cities of the early republic—New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore). Understand Jefferson’s views on economy and federal debt A top priority of the new government was cutting the national debt. Jefferson also wanted to diminish the activities of the federal government. He urged Congress to repeal all direct taxes, including the tax...
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...THE CHEROKEE INDIANS Richard T. McLamb Jr. American InterContinental University Abstract The following pages will talk about the Cherokee Indian Tribe. It will talk about some of the events that occurred before the first Americans arrived from Europe. I will also talk about things that happened to the tribe after the fact of the Americans arriving. It talks about some of the events that involved the Americans push for more land and the effect it had on the Cherokee. It also tells of one historical figure of the Cherokee Tribe’s history. The Cherokee Indians are still known to this day of being the strongest tribe in America. They have survived several things in America’s history. There is research that finds the Cherokee originated in the North but they were found in the whole mountain region of the south Alleghenies, in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River when they were first encountered by De Soto in 1540 (Cherokee Indian Tribe, 2011). This tribe was said to have broken off of their Iroquoian family. In 1736, the Jesuit Priber started the first mission among them, and was trying to organize their government to be more on a civilized basis (Cherokee Indian Tribe, 2011). In 1759 to 1794, the Cherokee joined with the English against the Americans to try and stop their push against taking the Indian’s land and possessions. During this time they traveled...
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...Journal Entry of a Subordinate Group Member My name is Awanita, which means in my native language the fawn. I am part of the Cherokee tribe. It is believed that we originated by passing over the Bering Strait (Alaska) during the Ice age from Asia, while the Bering Strait was still frozen. Many spread out over parts of Canada, and North and South America (N.A. 2, 2011). Now people have invaded our land and have brought with them diseases that have struck our people. We have been at war with the settlers because they want to take our land. They are making us sign treaties, each time they take more and more of our land from us. Our people are being forced once again to move (N.A. 2007). We live in what the settlers call Georgia. Now they have discovered gold, and these people are trespassing on our land, once again in search of this gold. Tension is building again between my people and the settlers, of which was once our country (N.A. 1, 2011). A man known as the President of the country, that they now call the United States of America, has now declared for the removal of our people; he goes by the name of Andrew Jackson. He has declared a new law, called the Indian Removal Act of 1830. He has decided that our people are in danger from the settlers and wants us to move from our land in the east to land in the west (N.A. 1, 2011). Our people have made a complaint to the Supreme Court and have won, but the president has ignored the court’s decision and has ordered our migration...
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...United States of America and Native American Nations was full of tumultuous occurrences of ecocide, ethnocide and genocide. One of the most prevalent situations of their interactions was the Trail of Tears, which resulted in lasting effects on the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations. It was an act of genocide against the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations by the United States of America. Today, these Nations still feel the impact of this atrocious event and continue to tell stories of the horrific experiences that their people endured. The event stemmed out of the white settler expansion into the South during the early 19th century. White settlers wanted to acquire high yield land from Native American Nations for growing cotton. Native American people were standing in the way of progress for white settlers and the United States did not uphold their agreement with these nations. Thus these communities were forcefully removed to a distant and foreign land that resulted in the death of many of their...
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...Johanna Perez The Long March It began in 1838 a long line of Cherokee Indians Trudged through the Georgia countyside. These Native Americans were heading for the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. It was not the Cherokees that chose to make, this long, difficult and kaotic trip. The U.S government forced them out of their homes and set them on this long and disturbing journey. A few Indians traveled by water. Most traveled by land. Woman carried their babies and the sick and elderly traveled by wagons. In fact A gentleman by the name of George Hicks led one of the cherokee groups in fact before departing he sent a letter to the leader of the departing cherokees and stated that it was with great sorrow that they were being forced by the white man out of the state away from home were they were born and raised and sent him a farewell.The trip to the Indian territory took about six months. They were about sixteen thousand cherokees that marched through the rain, snow, and bitter cold. Traveling about one thousand {text:soft-page-break} miles away. Traveling without food, clothing,or shelter. How horrific it was for the four thousand people that died on this route and in doing so never had a proper burial they had to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Having to bury forteen and fifteen people at every stop. How? We ask the U.S could not be bothered to share America's riches with a different race which whom they viewed as inferior and ...
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...surface of Native Americans and the role they have played in American History. The main cause of the interaction between Americans and the Native Americans was an increase in demand for land by Americans. As they pushed west and south, the frequency of interactions with Native Americans increased and so did hostility. I am aware that land demand issues were normally approached at first with peaceful negations. The American government would meet with the tribes and develop a treaty that resulted in less land for the Native Americans and more land for Americans. This would satisfy the Americans for a period of time but demand for land would just continue to increase. At this point Indians would either get restless and rebellions would ensue or Americans would violate the treaties and make moves on the Native’s land. In either situation the superior force of the American troops would result in them defeating the Indians. The Indians would then be forced to comply with American demands, meaning less land. Although this is a broad and brief overview of Native American history, in order to better understand Native Americans one must delve deeper into specific events and actions. Beginning in the Jefferson presidency era, Native Americans were allowed to live east of the Mississippi under the condition that they integrated into civilized culture. Jefferson’s goal was to make...
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...the party machine, Democrats and Whigs, public and private freedom, South Carolina and Nullification, Calhoun’s political theory, the Nullification crisis, Indian removal, the Supreme Court and the Indians, Biddle’s bank, pet banks, the economy, and the panic of 1837. Although winning the most electoral and popular votes during the presidential election of 1824, Andrew Jackson lost the race to John Quincy Adams. The election of 1824 laid the ground work for a new system of political parties. In 1828, Van Buren, established the political apparatus of the Democratic Party, complete with local and state party units overseen by a national committee and network of local newspapers devoted to the party and to the election of Andrew Jackson. During the election, Jackson’s supporters made few campaign promises, relying on their candidate’s popularity and the working of party machinery to get the vote out. Nearly 57 percent of the eligible electorate cast ballots, more than double the percentage four years earlier. Jackson won a resounding victory, carrying the entire South and West, along with Pennsylvania. His election was the first to demonstrate how the advent if universal white male voting organized by national political parties, had transformed American politics. Andrew Jackson had little formal education and was a man of many contradictions. He held a vision of democracy that excluded any roles for Indians and African-Americans. Jackson believed that the states, not Washington...
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...Cherokee once lived in the southern Appalachians. In the eighteenth century, they claimed hunting grounds that extended into Kentucky, but they clustered their villages and agricultural fields in the valleys of upcountry South Carolina, western North Carolina, east Tennessee, north Georgia, and northeastern Alabama, they also spoke four mutually intelligible dialects of an Iroquoian. There were ten million Native Americans on this continent when the first non-Indians arrived. Over the next 300 years, 90 percent of all Native American original population was either wiped out by disease, famire, or warfare imported by the whites. Nineteenth century, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation to surrender its homeland and relocate west of the Mississippi witch is the event known as the trail of tears. The term “Trail of tears.” A rough translation of the Cherokee nunna dual tsung, describes the trek of heart broken people to their new homes in the west. The discovery of the new world by European explorers caused endless problems for American Indians, whose homelands were gradually taken from them and whose cultures were dramatically altered, and in some cases destroyed, by the invasion. By the next two centuries more and more white settlers arrived, and the native cultures responded to pressures to adopt the foreign ways, leading to the deterioration of their own culture. During the colonial period Indian tribes often became embroiled in European colonial wars. If they...
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...Meherrin Tribe Essay by: Mallory B. The Meherrin tribe of North Carolina is one of eight state recognized Native American North Carolina tribes. They received their state recognition in 1986. The Meherrins have a total of over 900 people in their tribe. The Meherrin people speak Iroquois, along with lots more Native Americans. They are related to the Tuscaroras. The Meherrin and Tuscaroras were neighboring tribes and migrated to New York together in the early 18th century. The Meherrins originally lived in the Piedmont region of Virginia, but then moved south to North Carolina to avoid encroachment from the Anglo-Americans. The Meherrins were also related to the Nottoway Indians and most likely spoke the same language as them. The Meherrin tribal seal depicts two Meherrin tribal seal...
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...Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region on the border of North and South Carolina. Jackson himself maintained he was from South Carolina. The son of Irish immigrants, Jackson received little formal schooling. The British invaded the Carolinas in 1780-1781, and Jackson’s mother and two brothers died during the fight, leaving him with a lifelong anger toward Great Britain. He soon moved west of the Appalachians to the region that would soon become the state of Tennessee, and began working as a prosecuting lawyer in Nashville. He later set up his own private practice and met and married Rachel Donelson Robards. Jackson grew prosperous enough to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville, and to buy slaves. In 1796,...
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...Before the Europeans first came to the United States and had their first contact with the American Indians, there were numerous of unique indigenous cultures that have been uniquely formed by their landscapes and history. A tribe’s language, worldviews, knowledge and religion come from their local lands, shaping them to be who they are. Though every American Indian tribe has the belief of bringing harmony, respect and balance amongst the human community and the natural world, each illustrates these beliefs differently depending ones cultural values, knowledge and worldviews. American Indian tribes can differ from one another in many ways relating to ceremonies, prayers, songs, medicine, and other rituals, expressing their own unique cultural values. Their homelands, as well as the mountains, caves, and rivers all carry some kind of symbolic meanings and purposes relating to their culture understanding. For instance, the Yaqui tribe is known to perform deer songs and dances, a central ritual within their culture, that allows them to spiritually be, live, connect or communicate with one’s universe (Evers and Molina). Whereas for another tribe, such as the Tewa, perform their own unique rituals. The Cherokee tribe is one of the many indigenous tribes in North America that have been shaped by their local landscape and history. Like every American Indian tribe, the Cherokee consists of many different cultural worldviews, traditions, and beliefs that brought them to express their culture...
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...| The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” | HIST105 | | Christy Price | 2/10/2013 | | The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” The word Cherokee, which is pronounced CHAIR-uh-kee, comes from a Muskogee word meaning ‘speakers of another language’. Cherokee Indians, pronounced Tsalagi in their own language, originally called themselves Aniyunwiya, "the principal people," but today they accept the name Cherokee. There are 350,000 Cherokee people that still exist today, mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Most Cherokee do speak English but there are still 20,000 that also speak their native Cherokee Indian language. The Cherokees were peaceful allies of the Americans and the white settlers called the Cherokee, as well as, the Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole “The Five Civilized Tribes”, probably because these tribes were early converts to Christianity. The five tribes never considered themselves part of an alliance and did not call themselves the Civilized Tribes in their own languages. The Cherokee Indians adopted the customs, laws and religion of the white settlers and many became prosperous merchants, traders, teachers, writers and tribal statesmen. The Cherokees were one of the largest Native American tribes who settled in the American Southeast portion of the country. The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” "The Principle People", as they were sometimes called, originated with seven brothers in eastern Asia, from which came the...
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...simulation by Eric Rothschild Andrew Jackson the seventh President of the United States under the Constitution, has been impeached in the House of Representatives (not really, this is fictional – JACKSON WAS NOT REALLY IMPEACHED). He will go on trial in the U.S. Senate on July 1, 1838. Here are the charges against Jackson: • Violating the rights of Native Americans, especially in his treatment of the Cherokee and Creek Indians • Stepping on state’s rights in his economic policy and his behavior in the nullification crisis • General bad character You will work in groups I assign for the trial. Here are the group assignments: 1. Prosecution Indictment #1 (arguing against Jackson) 2. Prosecution Indictment #2 (arguing against Jackson) 3. Defense Team Indictment #1(arguing for Jackson) 4. Defense Team Indictment #2(arguing for Jackson) 5. Andrew Jackson, witness for the defense Indictment #1: President Jackson violated states rights in his dealings with South Carolina in the nullification crisis. 6. Witness group: South Carolinian Nullifiers led by John C. Calhoun 7. Witness group: Opponents of Nullification Indictment #2: President Jackson violated laws, treaties, and court orders in his dealings with Native Americans. 8. Witness group Native Americans led by Osceola 9. Witness group: Supreme Court led by John Marshall Each group will be given a reading packet with information on your group (Packets...
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