...My great grandfather was part Cherokee Indian. Cherokee Indians have a very unique culture and that culture they have built has been from other culture’s influences. They have traditions and customs that they hold close and practice still to this day. I am going to go into detail about their dances and everything that goes a long with it such as music and their costumes. The Cherokee have many traditional dances, ancient, modern, religious, social and there are some that are no longer practiced. The stomp dance is the most important of all. The stomp dance ritual occurs throughout a time span of a whole day. They prepare for the dance all day long. Creating a fire, cooking food, give sermons, and play stickball, a game resembling...
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...The Cherokee tribe is one of the largest known tribes. There are many people who claim that they are full blood and many people who are descendants of the Cherokee people. The Cherokee people were scattered around the Appalachian Mountains and they lived in small villages. The villages would usually come together to have celebrations and war. There are also seven clans within these villages: a ni gi lo hi (Long Hair Clan), a ni sa ho ni (Blue Clan), a ni wa ya (Wolf Clan), a ni go te ge wi (Wild Potato Clan), a ni a wi (Deer Clan), a ni tsi s qua (Bird Clan), and finally a ni wo di (Paint Clan). Clanship is important in the Cherokee culture because it sets up different rules for each clan. The individuals claim their clan based on their mother...
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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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...eleven treaties in which southern tribes gave up their eastern territory in exchange for western territory. Due to the treaties, the U.S was able to gain control over a large portion of Alabama and Florida, along with parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, and North Carolina. In 1830, President Jackson helped pass the “Indian Removal Act.” The act gave the president the power to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes that lived east of the Mississippi. The removal was supposed to be peaceful, but some of the southeastern tribes resisted and Jackson forced them to move. Out of the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Cherokee it can be argued that the Cherokee had it the hardest. The Cherokee were tricked into signing the Treaty of New Echota. Led by Chief John Ross, the Cherokee signed a petition protesting the treaty, but the Supreme Court ignored them and ratified the treaty in 1836. The government gave the Cherokee two years to migrate, and by 1838 only 2,000 of 18,000 of the tribe members migrated. The government sent in about 7,000 troops that forced the Cherokee to move and march thousands of miles without giving them time to gather any of their belongings. This was known as the Trail of Tears which led to around 4,000 Cherokee people dying from cold, hunger, and disease. The state of Georgia passed five laws that restricted Cherokee authority over their land. One of the laws required all whites living in Cherokee Indian Territory to obtain a state...
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...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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...in their perceptions of Native people? Jefferson followed more the principal of assimilation of Native Americans. He saw Native American tribes as sovereign nations that should be recognized by the U.S. His ideal was to assimilate Native Americans into an agriculture based economy wherein they could participate in his agrarian vision of the United States. His idea for obtaining Indian lands was to buy them or to gain them by the process of letting the Indians get indebted to the United States to the degree that they would be forced into giving up land resources to cover that debt. If this plan failed Jefferson was more than willing to use forced removal and extermination as a means for obtaining the land America needed for its growth. In this respect he can be considered the true “Father of Indian Removal” as policy for the United States in dealing with Native Americans (Rockwell, 2010). Jackson was a fierce opponent to treating Native American tribes as sovereign foreign nations; he did not believe that the U.S. should treaty with them. Jackson also held the reputation of being an ‘Indian Hater’; especially in the eyes of Native Americans who gave him the nickname “Indian Killer” or as the Cherokee called him, “Sharp Knife”. This nickname came about during Jackson’s military career during battles with Creek, Cherokee and Seminole tribes. His battle tactics were extremely brutal. Jackson even went so far as to encourage his men to kill women and children as to exterminate as...
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... Who Am I My name is Ashley Guinn and my great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, so naturally I am a descendant of the Cherokee Native Americans. I may not have but 1/8 of their blood, but they are a part of my ancestry. As I conduct my research, I have a much better understanding of the discrimination my ancestors faced as well as the harsh and brutal treatment that led to many tribes being forced from the land that had been theirs for generations. Since the arrival of Christopher Columbus, Native Americans have suffered through much fear and resentment. Members of the American Republic like George Washington thought that the best way to handle the “Indian problem” was to introduce Christianity into their culture, teach them to read and speak English, and other common European practices such as individual ownership of land: in effect “civilizing” them. These ideals were embraced the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee who came to be known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” Regardless men who sought the rich and fertile land did not care how “civilized” they were and resorted to almost any extreme to obtain them. They stole livestock, burned and looted towns, or simply took over the lands they wanted. State governments began to pass laws limiting Native American rights and encroached on their land. In a few cases such as Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia (1831) and Worcester vs. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court objected to this and affirmed that native...
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... Who Am I My name is Ashley Guinn and my great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, so naturally I am a descendant of the Cherokee Native Americans. I may not have but 1/8 of their blood, but they are a part of my ancestry. As I conduct my research, I have a much better understanding of the discrimination my ancestors faced as well as the harsh and brutal treatment that led to many tribes being forced from the land that had been theirs for generations. Since the arrival of Christopher Columbus, Native Americans have suffered through much fear and resentment. Members of the American Republic like George Washington thought that the best way to handle the “Indian problem” was to introduce Christianity into their culture, teach them to read and speak English, and other common European practices such as individual ownership of land: in effect “civilizing” them. These ideals were embraced the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee who came to be known as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” Regardless men who sought the rich and fertile land did not care how “civilized” they were and resorted to almost any extreme to obtain them. They stole livestock, burned and looted towns, or simply took over the lands they wanted. State governments began to pass laws limiting Native American rights and encroached on their land. In a few cases such as Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia (1831) and Worcester vs. Georgia (1832), the U.S. Supreme Court objected to this and affirmed that native...
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...status. 3. List some words that describe Jackson’s character as a young man. 4. What profession (job) did Jackson pursue when he was 18? 5. What happened in Jackson’s first duel? What did it prove about him? 6. Why was Jackson’s marriage controversial? How did this hurt him later? 7. Describe Jackson’s first attempt at serving as a politician in Washington. 8. What happened in Jackson’s second duel? 9. Why did Jackson earn the nickname “Old Hickory”? 10. What was the “Redstick War”? What role did Andrew Jackson play? 11. What did Andrew Jackson do with a young Native American child captured in a battle? Why do you think he did this? 12. Why did some Native Americans fight on Andrew Jackson’s side in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend vs. the Redsticks? 13. How did Jackson’s forces count how many Native Americans were killed in battle? 14. What did the treaty of Fort Jackson decide? Do you think it was fair to the Native Americans? Why/Why not? 15. Why did the British want to...
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...Nick Lunardini, H104, Paper 1, June 30, 2014 Was Andrew Jackson suitable for being awarded the honor of being on the twenty dollar bill? This discussion talks about what made Andrew Jackson a respectable human being and President as well as what did not. During the 1820’s into the 1830’s Jackson had accumulated many American supporters who helped him become situated in the country’s most glorified position. Jackson served two terms as President of the United States. When someone is elected as President for a second term they are most likely doing something right in the eyes of countless people. Andrew Jackson was certainly not the perfect President or a human being in general but there are many great things he did for this country. Jackson found himself to be a great political figure in earlier times before becoming President. In the 1820’s Jackson became one the forerunners for the Democratic-Republicans. Towards the end of the decade Andrew Jackson established what was known as Jacksonian Democracy with supporters all over. “Jacksonian democracy was an effort to control the power of the capitalist groups.” Jackson’s supporters eventually broke off into their own political party called Democrats. This was the beginning of the oldest political party ever established and also the beginning of the second party system. Jackson’s idea of the Democracy system was to “provide equal protection and equal benefits to all its white male citizens and favor no region or class...
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...territory. White settles wanted Indian land because they wanted to grow cotton, and there was gold where the Cherokees inhabited. The Native Americans were forced to walk thousands of miles to Indian Territory, many of them died of diseases or hunger, and this is why it became known as the trail of tears. Most Native Americans belonged to the five tribes which were the: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. The Choctaw were the first to negotiate for their land with the federal government in 1830 they agreed to give up their property for western land. The government in the other hand had no experience in transporting large amount of people from state to state so on the journey to their new land many Native Americans died from exhaustion, exposure, malnutrition and disease while traveling. In 1828 Andrew Jackson was elected president and he wanted Cherokees to disappear. In 1830 Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which gave the government the right to exchange the Native Americans land and send them east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma. The Cherokee’s took their case to court which was known as Worcester vs Georgia, the Cherokee’s won the case but Andrew Jackson ignored the hearing....
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...D. J Q Adams * ------------------------------------------------- All called themselves republicans * No one wins an electoral majority * By rule: vote goes to House of Reps * Henry Clay A. 4th, not eligible 1. Crawford has a stroke 2. Clay hates Jackson 3. Supports JQA * JQA wins, give Sec of State to H. Clay * Jackson gets mad, claims corruption * A Jackson had the most popular votes * ------------------------------------------------- Doesn’t matter JQA (6) * Strongest Nationalist * Wanted to build roads, canals, and universities * ------------------------------------------------- Attempted to with out of control land speculation. Election on 1828 * Jackson vs. JQA * Adams supporters: - Talk very bad about Jackson and his family * Jackson supporters * Pointed to previous election and say it was corrupt bargain. 1824 * Said the “people should rule” * ------------------------------------------------- Jackson wins in 1828 Jackson Presidency * Old hickory * Tennessee * From the west * Tough * 2 bullets * Malaria, tuberculosis * Lead poisoning * Violent temper * Slave owner Tariff of abominations Tariff- tax on imports * Protects American industry from foreign * Drive up prices * Retaliatory tariffs Tariffs of 1828 (abomination) * Hurt southerners (bought manufactured goods) * Felt discriminated against ...
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...Native American Medicines Axia College University of Phoenix Native medicine has always excelled in the treatment of wounds and surgery, such as mending broken bones etc, a branch of medicine that during the pioneer era was a most barbaric torture in western medicine. Hygiene was poor and anaesthetics unknown. Barbers doubled up as surgeons. Even today Western medicine is indebted to indigenous medicine for the most commonly used anaesthetic derived from Coca .A plant that South American Indian doctors have used for this purpose since pre-Colombian times. Indeed there are numerous plants of both south and North American Native origin that have enriched modern western herbalist and medicine. However, in Native traditions it is not just the plant that makes the medicine, but foremost the power of the spirit that governs the plant. A plant as such would be considered useless unless it were gathered and prepared with due respect, prayer and rituals with which the healer seeks the support of the plant spirit to help him affect a cure. Native American Medicines: Even though, Native American Medicines have no real threat to our bodies. Are Native American Medicines better for us than Traditional medicines with no side affects because Native American Medicines have been around for years and are still being used today and Native American Medicines have no real side affects like traditional medicines do. The most important...
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...ourselves fugitives, vagrants, and strangers in our own country.” states former cherokee chief, John Ross upon revealing the tragic, but true fact that Indians were being discriminated and taken from their homes. The U.S was growing rapidly in the mid 1800’s, yet, there was no room for white plantations or people. As America expanded, the east was being explored and the discovery of gold on the eastern states was valuable. The five civilized tribes, The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole were being forced to relocate West of the Mississippi river due to Americans believing Indians were savages and the discovery of gold in the area. MIgrating the Indians gave the United states an abundance of room to established plantations and continue slavery. The infamous “Trail of Tears” forced thousands of Indigenous people to walk through harsh weather and experience...
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...earned by being part of the church community, basically meaning that a Roman Catholic would only gain entry into the afterlife if they attended church [Stewart]. In Baptist churches they believe that only those who believe, who have been baptized and also believe Christ is their savior may enter the afterlife [Buschart]. On the other hand there are the non-Christians, sometimes referred to as pagans; though in this age the term is more used for polytheists who aren’t Hindu believers or ancestral worshipers. In my own religious beliefs, Wicca, the afterlife varies based on the god or goddess being followed. In Greek based Wicca there is an afterlife and depending on how your soul acts in that life varies on where you’ll be sent [Marks]. In Cherokee following paganism, how my mother follows, they do not believe in a literal place like heaven but more that when a person dies they go on as ghosts, wandering the earth [The Tradition Belief System]. Then there are the non-theistic groups like agnostics and atheists. Agnostics tend to vary from person to person on death and the afterlife so it’s hard to tell what they believe [Agnostics]. Atheists do not believe in an afterlife. Taking a focus on Roman Catholicism is quite intriguing. While they believe their practitioners do go onto an afterlife, they also believe that human beings are riddled with sin. But the exception to that is those who believe in Christ wiping them of their sins are allowed into Heaven. In Roman Catholicism they...
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