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
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to the Indian Reservations? After looking at the map I believe the Choctaw tribe had the easiest path to their new Indian Reservation. The Choctaw tribe had taken the route along the Arkansas River. This was beneficial to them because not only did they use the river for fresh water for them and their livestock. The route was used because it was easier for navigation purposes. Based on your examination of the map, why did some Cherokee first travel north before heading west to the Indian Reservations
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States is taken up by a tribe called the Cherokee. They would call themselves calaki, which was used as a Lower Cherokee dialect. It was estimated that there was about 30,000 Cherokee members in the year 1540. In the 1800, the Cherokee lived in many town in these states: Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. In 1838, most Cherokees were forced to move from their homelands and move to an Indian Territory, this was later known as the Western Cherokee. Some of these people escaped from being
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Thompson ANTH 252 Doctor Hemphill Yokuts v. Cherokee I. Introduction This paper is a basic introduction to two native North American tribes; the Yokuts of the California cultural area and the Cherokee of the Southeast cultural area. First I we will delve in to the general backgrounds of these two tribes, followed by an in depth examination of Religious beliefs practiced by each tribe, as well as the Life cycle rituals of the Yokuts and Cherokee. Directly proceeding this we will then
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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into frequent contact with the various Native American tribes through the South-Eastern parts of the country. The main tribes; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole had to be relocated west, opening twenty-five million acres of land to white settlers. The discover of the “New World” by European explorers caused endless problems for Native American Indians. First contact between the Europeans and Native Americans, resulted from the expedition of Hernando de Solo in 1540. De Solo took
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