...US History to 1877 Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle Having little knowledge of the Cherokee removal and the history that took place in this moment in America’s past, the book Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, offers an insight to the politics, social dynamics and class struggles the Cherokee Nation faced in the late 1830s. The book was very comprehensive and the scope of the book covers nearly 100 years of Native American History. Ehle captures the history of the Native American people by showing the readers what led to the events infamously known as the Trail of Tears. The author uses real military orders, journals, and letters which aid in creating a book that keeps the reader interested in the history that unfolded. The book is very dense with research and the style it is written in is from a contemporary voice, in other words, as the reader you sometimes get the feeling of emotion involved and other times there is a history textbook feeling from the author, which made the reading slightly difficult. I expected the novel to be very emotional narrative that would be sympathetic towards the Cherokee people, but it was a mixture of narrative plus historical facts. The book portrays the actual history, through the use of the many primary sources mentioned earlier, of the Cherokee people, but I believe that the author used that to frame the personalities of his characters as to what their decision making might...
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...Book Review: John Ehle’s Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation The book Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle is a book about the Cherokee Indians and the suffering they endured during the late 1830s. Ehle wrote a book that was more than just a documentation of what happened on the Trail of Tears; he wrote a detailed documentation of Native American history. It centered more around the Cherokees than any other textbook could considering it helped visualize who the Cherokees were as people and not what they went through during such a political time period. Ehle used an abundance of historical facts to convey the Cherokee way of life before and during the Trail of Tears like no author of any textbook ever could. Furthermore, the way Ehle helped the audience envision the Cherokees is what I really enjoyed about this book. Starting out Ehle shapes the Cherokees in a way that helps the audience distinguish that they were not entirely blameless for what actually happened. He helps us take a look into the darker sides of the Cherokee culture we many not read in our textbooks or generally many websites that describe the culture. White Americans are generally blamed for always pushing themselves forward and at the rise to the top stepping over whomever comes their way, but now we see who America was stepping over. Regarding this, Cherokees were not so different from White Americans. Just like many other races the Cherokees held...
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...called the Cherokee and we call this event the Trail of Tears. As you will soon learn, it is one of the most brutal and racist events to happen in America. The Trail of Tears happened when Hernando De Soto took his adventures to America. After he came to America more and more Europeans came and began to invade on Indian land. The Indians became lost in bewilderment and anger. Some tribes didn’t feel this way until later on, for some helped the new comers win wars during the colonial periods. Often when the Indians’ side lost the war, the Indians would have to give...
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...Running Head: Trails of Tears The Trails of Tears Deborah Horton February 23, 2015 The Trails of Tears was during the time when the Cherokee people from North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia were forcefully removed from their homeland during 1838-1839. They traveled by foot, horse, wagon and boat to Oklahoma. The Trails of Tears was known during the 1800’s. Priceless gold was discovered on the lands. The land consisted of millions of acres in Georgia, Tennessee and Carolina. In the early 1800’s and appeal was issued to remove the Cherokee from the lands of Georgia, but the appeal did not go through. After these efforts failed they tried to buy land. The Cherokee became one of the Five Civilized Tribes the others included the Seminoles, Chickasaw, Choctaw and the Creek. In the 1830”s the Cherokee agreed to surrender the territory in exchange for land which was considered Indian Territory. Most escaped to North Carolina and bought land. Somewhere forced west which they called the Trail of Tears. There were so many thousands of people and many died from hunger and disease. The Cherokee’s main source of food mainly came from agricultural. They grew their own beans, corn and squash they also ate cow, hogs etc. The Trails of Tears consisted of cultural differences between Native Americans and Americans which caused them to be move to the South. The Cherokee were people who lived on land that was valuable and had good resources and this...
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...The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Tribe November 16th, 2015 The Trail of Tears remains one of the worst human rights disaster in United States history. At the beginning of the 1830’s, more than ten thousand Cherokees were taken from their homes. They were forced by the United States government to leave their homelands because of the white settlers. They ended up in the future State of Oklahoma. By the end of the decade very few Native Americans remained in the Southern United States. However due to the horrid conditions, masses of them died due to starvation during relocation. It caused a large amount of stress among the Cherokee people. This difficult journey was known as the Trail of Tears. Migration from the original Cherokee nation began in the early 1800’s. Some Cherokees moved west on their own and settled in other areas of the country. A group known as the old settlers had voluntarily moved in 1817 to lands given to them in Arkansas. While there, they established a government. Later, however, they were forced to migrate to Indian Territory. They were not given an alternative if they “wanted” to move or not. It wasn’t up to them as far as decision making. The move was extremely difficult and treacherous. In 1835 the United States government used the Treaty of New Echota to justify the removal. Known as the Treaty Party, signed by approximately one hundred Cherokees, it relinquished all lands, and the promise of livestock, various precision tools, and other benefits...
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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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...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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...The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest Native American Tribes in the United States. They were considered one of the most civilized tribes in the United States. The tribe was located in the southeastern part of the of the U.S. They were also found in parts of North and South Carolina, northern Georgia and Alabama, southwest Virginia, and the Cumberland Basin of Tennessee and Kentucky.(tolatsga.org) The tribe had descended from the Iroquoians, but the Cherokees differed significantly from other Iroquoian languages. The seven major clans were Long Hair, Blue, Wolf, Wild Potato, Deer, Bird, and Paint. The Long Hair clas was known as a peaceful clan and ofen took in prisoners of war and orphans. The Blue clan was considered the oldest clan...
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...The Trail of Tears In the early 1800’s, The United States was a young, but ambitious nation. Despite being a more primitive period in time, there was still the modern day lust for 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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...This essay will talk about “We Shall Remain” epoxide 3 which talks about the trails of tears. The Trail of Tears is not a specific place, rather, it is the journey of those Native Americans who were forced from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi. To begin with, The Trail of Tears stays for a champion among the most terrible periods ever. It was the begin of destruction of Indian tribe the Cherokee. The Cherokee lived in what transformed into the United States quite a long while preceding the primary European set foot in the New World. Related to the Iroquois, they had moved to the southern Appalachians from the Great Lakes area. Following t American Revolution and the presentation...
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...In Trail of Tears , John Ehle draws and creates images of the people and the events and problems that led up to the trail of tears also known as the removal and killing of thousands of Cherokee Indians . This Act was put into place to make the indians move to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma . This book takes place in the time periods of 1771 through about 1841. The settings takes place during the time when white settlers were trying to take over the Cherokee lands. Many of the lessons in this book helped shaped the world today , most importantly it keeps us to correct the past mistakes and not let these problems reoccurs .The Cherokee were a very religious tribe. They mainly worshipped the sun and prayed for great harvests. The...
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...Trail of Tears The book The Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle was published on September 22, 1988 by Anchor Books. The book has 424 pages. John Ehle, the author, has written over seventeen books. Most of his books deal with civil rights, the Cherokee Nation, French wine and cheese and Irish whiskey. This book specifically deals with the Cherokee Nation during around the 1790s to the 1840s. The book did not seem to really discuss the actual trail of tears but rather the Cherokees Nation rise and fall. However, the book seemed to focus on the more successful or richer Cherokees. Reflecting on the title, it is called the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation but Ehle only seems to cover the rise and fall of specific people and events. The Trail of Tears focuses mainly on Major Ridge and his family, specifically his son John Ridge and his nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Waite and other missionaries who were sent to convert the Cherokees to Christianity. Major Ridge would not convert to Christianity but did accept some of the white ways for his family. The principal chief of the Cherokee was named John Ross who was believed by many to be in state of denial. Ross and his followers blame Ridge and his followers for selling the Cherokee out when they sign the Treaty of 1835 that puts the seal on the removal. . Major Ridge was born around 1771 and died on June 22, 1839. Ridge married Sehoya who was a mixed-blood Cherokee in 1792. Ridge could not...
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...The Cherokee Rose symbolizes a tough time that the Cherokee tribe went through. The white men had invaded their land and the Cherokee were forced to evacuate. Throughout their journey they faced many difficulties and setbacks. Children and adults were dying. They had no proper clothing or food. Many were in a state of bad health. Apart from all the problems, the Cherokee Rose was left behind as a mark of the great obstacles they had overcome. The year was 1898 and the white men were on the hunt for gold in the East. The only thing in their way was the Cherokee Tribe. In order for their gold expedition to go on they forced the Cherokee to move to the West. Being overpowered and outnumbered the Cherokee evacuated and started their...
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...Long before the white settlers came to America the land was inhabited by the Indians. The Cherokee Indian tribe owned a large piece of land in modern day Georgia. Despite this, Americans believe they have a right to this land. As a result, there has been a bitter, repulsive conflict between Indians and Americans ever since the first settlers. The worst result of this conflict was a Cherokee Indian massacre called the Trail of Tears. More than 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forcefully moved out of their home lands to their newly created land in Oklahoma. An estimated 4,000 Cherokee people died during this fatal journey. There were three main factors that played a role in causing the Trail of Tears. First, the Americans wanted to move into the Cherokee’s territory because it was valuable. Second, Indians were considered a people who didn’t deserve the equal rights. Third, the widely held belief of Manifest Destiny influenced Americans to take the land from the Cherokee people....
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...The Trail of Tears is the journey of Native Americans that were forced to leave their home in Southeast Georgia and move to the new Indian Territory in moderate-day Oklahoma. People in Georgia continued to take American lands and force both Cherokee Indians and Creek Indians out of Georgia. By 1825 the Lower Creek was completely gone. In 1827 the Creek was gone. In 1838, the Cherokees were the fifth major tribe to be forced to relocate to Indian Territory. More than 15,000 Indians were forced out by the U.S. Army. The name of the other five tribes that were forced to leave their homeland were the Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Creek. 16,000 of the Choctaw Indians who journeyed across the Trail of Tears between 5,000 and 6,000 died in route. The “Trail of Tears” got its name because of the devastating effects it had on the Cherokee people. The Cherokee faced hunger, diseases, and exhaustion on the forced removal. Over...
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