...Ever wondered what it would be like if you were one of the very first Cherokee Native Americans? What it would be like to live in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia or even West Virginia. Even if your answer was no ever wonder what they did to pass the time or how they got started? Now the topics go in order from government, culture, then to the arts and craft that they did for trade and things like that, then about the famous Cherokee named Pathkiller. The Principal Chief, Deputy Principal Chief and council members are elected to four-year terms by registered tribal voters. It is the descendants of those original enrollees who make up today’s Cherokee Nation tribal citizenship. There are a total of 17 Tribal Council members. The new Cherokee capital of Tahlequah, along with nearby Park Hill in about the mid 1800’s, became a major hub of regional business activity and the center of cultural activity. In addition, the nation operates several successful enterprises, including Cherokee Nation Entertainment, and Cherokee Nation Industries, Inc. CNE operates the Cherokee casino facilities, two convenience store/gas stations and a...
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...settlers had been trying to convert the Native Americans’ religious beliefs and cultural practices. English settlers wanted the Native Americans to assimilate to the traditional European lifestyle. With the number of immigrants coming to America increasing, more and more land was being taken from the Native Americans. This was particularly an issue in Georgia, where gold had been discovered on Cherokee land. State governments began to help the settlers financially, by pushing the Native Americans out of their land by passing legislation that limited the Native Americans’ rights and sovereignty. The president at the time was Andrew Jackson, who signed the “Indian...
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...North America has a big tapestry of Native tribes, each of which has unique histories, cultures, and contributions. This essay will delve into the story of the Cherokee tribe specifically. The Cherokee tribe is one of the largest and most influential of the native tribes in the United States. Their journey is a testament to resilience, adaptation, and a continuous fight to preserve their cultural heritage. We will explore the core aspects of the Cherokee culture, such as their spiritual beliefs and the challenges faced by them today. I chose to explore the Cherokee nation because I have Cherokee ancestry and their long and complex history is interesting to me. In other words, this is fascinating to me because of their social structure and agricultural...
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...Journal Entry of a Native American Journal Entry of a Native American The Cherokee tribes are of a proud heritage that consists of many beautiful cultural traditions. We have found that the earliest contact from European explorers was in the 16th century. We were identified than as being socially and culturally advanced within the Native American tribes. The Cherokee tribes prospered for hundreds of years in the southeastern area of the United States before our first initial contact with Europeans. The Cherokee society and culture grew in developing, progressing, and embracing all of the better cultural aspects the Europeans brought with them. We had formed a government and society that equaled that of the most civilized cultures of the day. Unfortunately, when gold was discovered in 1830, in Georgia, outsiders began began a campaign called the period of “Indian removals”. It began from the orders of the U.S. Supreme Court (“[Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can.” – Andrew Jackson). Men, women, and children from our tribe and many others, were rounded up for the “removal” from our homes and our property by the orders from the President. We had become a subordinate racial group. Because our cultures were not the same, and obvious physical differences, we were treated as someone less deserving of what we had, therefore it was just taken from us. (Cherokee Nation - The Official Site of the Cherokee Nation, n.d., p. 1) We...
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...In Eastern Oklahoma there is a particularly high density of Native Americans relative to the total population, and this has had a substantial effect on the region, historically, as well as in the present day. One of the most highly concentrated native enclaves in Oklahoma is the proliferation of members of the Cherokee Nation in the northeastern corner of the state, including Adair County. According to the 2010 Census, Adair County’s population is 43.3% Native American, and almost the largest single portion of the Cherokee Nation lives in Adair and the neighboring counties, such as the Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, and Wagoner Counties, as well as nine more. There are smaller portions of other Native American tribes and nations living in the...
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...land and wealth. Native Americans occupied the land early Americans desired. In spite of attempts by the Native Americans to acclimate to American society, they were still forced from their tribal lands. Their treacherous journey west became known as The Trail of Tears. This forced mass exodus has left a blemish on the legacies of both President Andrew Jackson and America. The Trail of Tears was the path the Native Americans were forced to take from the southeastern United States to west of the Mississippi River. The entire length of this forced journey was...
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...happened to the cherokee indians during 1830 when the indian removal act was signed. The cherokee had been living in Georgia for a hundred years before the first Georgians arrived and were forced to move west into Louisiana. There were many reasons for this act to happen however it was as if the Cherokee had no say against it. The government was very biased for its people and did little to support the cherokee. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not justified because the cherokees were getting kicked out of their own homelands, they were treated poorly, and only a small majority of the cherokee agreed with...
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...The entirety of the current doctrine of American Indian Law is based on the opinions written by Chief Justice Marshall in the cases of Johnson v. McIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia. These cases, often referred to as the Marshal Trilogy, determined to what extend Native Americans have rights in light of their conquered status. Four principals manifest within the Marshal opinions, (1) congressional plenary power; (2) diminished tribal sovereignty; (3) the trust doctrine; and (4) the canons of construction (Kaldawi, 2016). In 1823, the first of the three cases, Johnson v. McIntosh was heard. The history behind the Johnson v. McIntosh complaint was a dispute over several tracts of land, purchased in the states of Illinois and Indiana, by the Wabash Land Companies on behalf of Johnson and also purchased by the federal government and then later sold by the federal government to the McIntosh family. Unfortunately, there was conflict as both parties, Johnson and McIntosh, said they owned the same parcels of land. Today there is question as to whether or not the purchases themselves were ever even legal (Kades, 2001). Chief...
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...Bilal Daoudi Professor: Mr. David Carter Class: ENG111 123A FA13 Date: 09/11/13 The Cherokee Tribes During a recent trip to Lake Lure in western North Carolina, I was taking a boat ride with my fiancée and her family and we were sharing many stories. When her mother, Martha, tried to show us the Great Smoky Mountains on the west side, she mentioned the Cherokee tribes where her ancestors used to live as the Native Americans who inhabited North America before the settlers came from Europe. After we finished that wonderful ride, I scheduled another meeting weeks later to talk more with Layla, my fiancée, about her origins and the Cherokee. Layla Sawyer said, “There are three federally recognized tribes today: the Eastern Band of Cherokees, the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. I trace part of my ancestry back to the Eastern Band of Cherokees, although I’m not a member.” The Eastern Band of Cherokees are scattered throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. However, her family has roots in Cherokee NC. The Cherokee Nation and UKB are located in Oklahoma and Arkansas. They were originally part of the same larger body of Cherokees who were settled in the mountains of southeastern North America but in 1838 the federal government forced the Cherokees to leave their lands in Southeastern US and relocate to Oklahoma. This was known as the ‘Trail of Tears’ in which thousands of Cherokees were forced...
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...6 December 2013 Elias Boudinot: A Native American Pioneer “Oh, what is a man who will not dare to die for his people? Who is there here that will not perish, if this great nation may be saved?” – Elias Boudinot, Cherokee Nation, December 29, 1835 There might not be any other ethnicity in the United States that has suffered as much deculterization, destruction and blatant ridicule by the majority ruling class than the Native American people. The very beginning of Anglo settlement in the new world marked the beginning of the end of the very way of life and culture that the native people enjoyed prior to the rampant spread of disease and warfare that would come to symbolize the Native relationship with the Anglo-European people of the United States. As the Anglo grip on the nation grew tighter, it became apparent that either you accept violence as your tribe’s only salvation, or you decide to accept whatever offer the ruling white class decided to offer your tribe, in hopes that your tribes willingness to abide by whatever rules and regulations imposed will eventually save your people from the fate of so many of your brothers and sisters across the country. No tribe personified this reality better than the Cherokee Nation of the Southeastern United States, and no one Cherokee Indian should be connected with the struggle of acculteration verses preservation than Elias Boudinot, the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American paper in the United States. As it...
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...finally here, or so they thought. Things were going to be done differently with Jackson as president, and they were, however not in a way people ever would have wanted. By the end of his tyrannical term as president people were once again shouting, but this time for the opposite reason. They were glad to see a president who caused the death of thousands of innocent Native Americans, a horrid economic depression like the nation had never seen before, and disobeyed the Supreme Court’s ruling multiple times. Jackson was the worst president to ever walk this Earth. His unforgivable...
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...If you were offered $5 million dollars and 70,000 square miles of land, would you agree to move away from home? For most of the Cherokee during the earlier 1800’s, the answer to this question was a firm no. During that time period, the United States government had been attempting to move Native American tribes west into their newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Previously, the Cherokee had sided against them in many wars, and had expressed violent attacks against them. The government wanted to move them off of their Georgia land. This caused the Indian Removal Act to be created. The president, Andrew Jackson at the time, suddenly had the power to negotiate treaties with Native Americans that would move them into Indian Territory. While many...
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...The Cherokee People Nicole Chappell February 10, 2013 The Cherokee People A Native American tribe that resided within the continental United States at the time of first European contact was the Cherokee Indians. They are still around today and better known as The Eastern Band of Cherokees. They had a very unique and creative culture. Although they weren’t very educated and George Guess didn’t finish his development of their own written language until the early 1820s they were fantastic at everything they did in order to survive off of the nature of the land. Major events like the hidden enemy and the “trail of tears” is what demolished most of the original Native American Cherokee Indians. Since The Cherokees were discovered by European settlers when they thought they found what they considered “The new land” it is unsure of their settlement date. However, there are certain artifacts that were discovered that does place them approximately 11,000 years before the first European settlers. Archaeologists tell us that American Indians may have been on the North American continent for fifty thousand years (Kincheloe, J. 2005). The Cherokees were great explorers, hunters, farmers and artisans. They learned quickly to adapt to new and very different climates such as dessert, forest, prairies, and along the ocean. The men used bows and arrows to hunt deer, turkey and small game. The men also used spears and fishing poles to catch fish. The women did the farming...
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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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...prosper, even if it meant the annihilation of a complete race of people. This was the experience of the Native American tribe, the Cherokee. In the 1830s, the Indian Removal Act was passed, giving President Andrew Jackson the freedom to force the Cherokee to be exiled beyond the state of Mississippi. During that time the Cherokee nation was violently forced from their homes and made to leave behind the only life they had ever known. Stricken by harsh weather, sickness, and surrounded by death and sadness, the Cherokee people made the long march from Georgia to Oklahoma. The Cherokee Indians should not have been forced to leave their land, given the consideration that it was in complete violation of their political, constitutional, and natural rights. A significant way the Cherokee people were violated was politically. In the “Memorial of The Cherokee Nation,” the Cherokees wrote, “We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation. The treaties with us, and laws of the United States made in pursuance of treaties, guarantee our residence and our privileges, and secure us against intruders. Our only request is, that these treaties may be fulfilled, and these laws executed…” Time and time again America had made promises to the Cherokee that they unlawfully broke. They had signed treaties with the Cherokee people, and gave them positive words of encouragement and false hope that one day they would be seen...
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