family heirloom that was supposed to have come to me on the day I turned 21. She begged me to leave my husband and those of the Cherokee people and come home to our family, but what she did not understand was that these people had become my people. I could never leave my husband as she wished of me. I loved him far too much. We stayed on in the home land of the Cherokee. But then the deadline for that infernal, treaty came and General Scott came with his troops. They forced us out of our homes
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A Cherokee finds herself in Oklahoma I am a Cherokee woman my name is Lily, my family and I lived in harmony and peace with the white settlers. Some of them want to live in peace and some just do not accept us. There are White settlers that want to steal our land. My ancestors have been here for many years. Long before these white men ever came over to this land, so why are they trying to take our land away from us? In my land of what they call the State of Georgia, their government refused
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from their traditional lands and forced migration to new Indian ground which was west of the Mississippi River. These tribes were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and the Seminoles. When Andrew Jackson was elected president in the year 1828, the Natives soon became a part of the next racial targeting. President Andrew Jackson encouraged the expulsion; the Congress authorized this removal policy set by the president in 1830. The Indian Removal Act was passed on May 28, 1830; they were involuntarily
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legislature passed laws making Cherokee tribal councils and made the State of Georgia responsible for Cherokee affairs. 16 The law was appealed by the tribe up to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled three times that Georgia had no right to oversee Indian government. Andrew Jackson, however, openly ignored the decision as he pushed for further settlement westward. Jackson’s disregard for Marshall’s ruling when it came to the sovereignty of Indians changed the role of the Presidency
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Imagine being scalped alive by the Indian Cherokee tribe, sounds painful right? The Cherokees were an Indian tribe living in Georgia, already U.S. territory at that time. There was an Indian removal act signed and put into action by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. No, the Cherokee’s weren’t forced out of Georgia without anything to take with them, they were offered a different part of land in America along with $5 million. The 1830 Indian Removal Act was greatly justified because America
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By the time Andrew Jackson became president, many Indian tribes were removed from the northeast of the United States. However, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks lived in the southeast and still occupied large portions of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Although Jackson did not hate the Indians as a race and was friendly with many individual Native Americans, he believed that they were lower than the whites. He was confident that he could judge the Indian’s welfare better
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Who Am I Ashley Guinn ETH/125 10/07/2013 Robert Knobs 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
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In Dee Brown's article, “Trail of Tears,” it is shown that without the faction of subchiefs headed by Major Ridge and Elias Boudinot, the US government would never have procured a treaty entitling them to Cherokee Indian land in Georgia. Although Ridge and Boudinot claimed their negotiation was a result of insight that “further resistance to the demands of the Georgia and United States governments was futile” they benefited largely from their cooperation with the government(Brown). Ridge in particular
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Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee Leader, retains the morals America was founded on such as religious freedom and ending the persecution against a group of individuals; therefore, he is a hero not only in his town, but the entire nation. Furthermore, Boudinot lived during the period of Indian Removal Acts and the Trail of Tears. In addition, Boudinot was known for his devotion to his religious beliefs, he founded the American Bible association which he used to voice his opinions about the treatment of Native
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During the 1830s and 1840s in America, there were several political events that divided the nation. Three of these were the abolishment of the Second Bank of the United States, the signing of the Indian Removal Act, and the abolitionists' antislavery offensive in 1835. One point of national controversy was regarding the existence of a national bank. The First Bank of the United States was a centralized, national bank chartered in 1791 for a term of 20 years. Its purpose was to hold federal funds
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