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- 1: The Trail Of Tears
- The Trail of Tears, was it unjust and inhumane? What happened to the Cherokee during that long and treacherous journey? They were brave and listened to the government, but they recieved unproductive land and lost their tribal land. The white settlers were already emigrating ... accepted the responsibility for the removal of one of the largest tribes in the Southeast that were the earliest to adapt to European ways. There was a war involving the Cherokee and the Chickasaw before the Indian Removal Policy was passed. The Cherokee were defeated by them which caused Chief Dragging Canoe to sign a treaty in 1777 to split up their tribe and have the portion of the tribe in Chattanooga, ...
- 2: President Jackson and the Removal of the Cherokee Indians
- President Jackson and the Removal of the Cherokee Indians "The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830's was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790's than ... course which was carried out for about 40 years. After 1825 the federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the Great Plains area of the Far West. The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. ...
- 3: The Cherokee Indians
- The Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee's were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to ...
- 4: The Cherokee Indians
- The Cherokee Indians The American Indian History in the Eastern part of the country is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee's were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes when Europeans first arrived and came in contact with Native Americans. There are too many tribes to ...
- 5: The Jeep
- ... 170DRW) that had a 10' flatbed. Other bodies were available for the FC-170DRW, such as dumptrucks and fire-engines. The FC trucks remained in production until 1964. Ahh, the Cherokee. The Cherokee line began in 1962 when Jeep introduced the Wagoneer, but it could be argued that it really began in the late 1940's with the Willy's Jeep Wagon (an ad for the Willy's Wagon once called it a "utility vehicle" for the family). The Wagoneer was a full-size vehicle with the SJ designation. The Cherokee name would not come about until 1975 when a sportier 2-door version of the Wagoneer was made and given the name Cherokee Chief (a 4-door version of ...
- 6: Apache And Cherokee Indians
- ... as no surprise, is a great educational tool. I felt that the life of Geronimo, the best-known Apache throughout history, could have been examined a little more carefully. The Cherokee The story of the Cherokee Indians was probably the most disturbing of any we have seen so far. The Cherokee were the most unfortunate of the North American Indian solely because the lived on the Eastern half of the United States. Their geographical location left them to be the ...
- 7: The Trail of Tears
- ... sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood…we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear." This is the way that Cherokee Vice Chief Charles Hicks described, in 1838, the emotions that must have been felt after the mistreatment and the abuse that was wrought upon the Cherokee Indians. It was a trail of blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the "Trail of Tears". In this account of the relocation of the Cherokee Nation we are trying to be as unbiased as possible. It’s the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson is mounting up forces against the Pro-British faction of the ...
- 8: Andrew Jackson: Indian Fighter
- ... made plans early in the 1820s to have Jackson run for the presidency in 1824(Funk & Wagnalls 97). The Trail of Tears refers to the route followed by fifteen thousand Cherokee during their 1838 removal and forced march from Georgia to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). In 1791, a United States treaty had recognized Cherokee territory in Georgia as independent, and the Cherokee people had created a thriving republic with a written constitution(Remini 224). For decades, the state of Georgia sought to enforce its authority over the Cherokee Nation, but its ...
- 9: Crises During The Presidency O
- ... was being reopened. This was the controversy over the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States. The other major obstacles were the nullification controversy and the treatment of the Cherokee Nation. The nullification controversy started before Jackson came into office. In the year before Jackson had taken office, Congress had passed a tariff for the declared purpose of protecting northern ... They were skilled in the art of white civilization. Many had intermarried with white wives, lived in white man's houses, and had adopted the white man's dress. The Cherokee Nation had built roads, schools, and churches, they had even invented their own written language. Some even owned slaves. They thought that they were protected by rights given to them ... owned land which the white men wanted. In 1829 the Georgia legislature passed a law extending its authority over the Indian territory within the borders of the state. Then, a Cherokee named Corn Tassel, killed another Cherokee in the territory. He was taken before a Georgia court, found guilty, and then sentenced to be hanged. The Cherokee Nation appealed to ...
- 10: Native Americans
- ... Ohio tribes had little immunity having missed the 1757-58 epidemic among the French allies contracted during the capture of Fort William Henry (New York). The Shawnee were fighting the Cherokee in Tennessee at the time, and they carried the disease to them, and then the Shawnee living with the Creek Confederacy. From there it spread to the Chickasaw and Choctaw ... Indians resistance to the US government. Before the outbreak of the Civil War the position of the Cherokees, and for that matter, all the Five Civilized Tribes (which were The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations), was unique. They were reported as capable of making treaties with the United States, they negotiated directly with special United States agents, with various departments of the Federal government and with Congress. No state occupied such a position. The strategic location of the Cherokee nation made it peculiarly difficult for the Cherokees as a whole to join either the North or the South. Cherokee History for three-quarters of a century was filled ...
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