Essays on Cherokee

            The “Trail of Tears” is one of the bleakest and most tragic moments in the history of the United States. The symbolic name of the “Trail of Tears” is given to the removal of the Native Americans from their territories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama and yet a few other…

1. The main focus of this chapter is the survival of Native Americans during American colonization, the spread of diseases, and the raiding of their towns. 2. To demonstrate the overall impact of Indian removal, Zinn references Michael Rogin’s book “Fathers and Children,” which highlights how Native Americans were displaced from their land, resulting in…

Introduction The history of United States is rich with cultural heritage that have now reflected to the diversity people living in the nation. However, everything never came too easy because numerous pains, struggles and sufferings have resulted to obtain the concept of American freedom that every United States citizen now enjoys. For African Americans, a…

There were about 16,000 Cherokee before their eviction. They put up the biggest fight; enough to make them the last tribe to be forced from their homes. They were a stationary tribe, and not nomads like many others. They had their own system of writing based on Greek. Hebrew, and English. They also had their…

            The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was one of the most controversial policies of former United States President Andrew Jackson. This statute forced the Cherokee nation to surrender to the federal government its lands and to relocate to present-day Oklahoma. Out of the 15,000 Cherokees who were obliged to migrate, at least 4,000 died…

The Cherokee Indians were a small group of Native Americans in Georgia who changed their lifestyles to mirror ours in an attempt to fit in by making their society more civilized. Despite their attempts to fit in, the government felt poorly upon them and acted unjustly by evicting them from their land for what they…

The Indian Removal Act declaring that the government had the power to relocate Native Americans in the southeast to the west of the Mississippi River. The first start of the removal of the Cherokee Indians started in the state of Georgia. Georgia Legislature in 1802 signed a compact giving the federal government claims to western…

From what I learned making this analysis, the need for the powerful countries to expand into Americas and make a fortune on the resources affected the original people. Many of the actions and agreements were very unbalanced to the Indians with then favoring the immigrant settlers. The Indians having an unfavorable time forming alliances that…

The outside of the museum is beautiful. It has the best fountain and water display out of all the Smithsonian museums. Not much detail if you ask me! Confusing layout and artifacts are lacking. The exhibits seemed more commercial than historical. The focus was far too much about how the settlers took over their land,…