In the early 1830’s, Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. All of this land was valuable and by the end of this decade, White Americans figured that out. A great portion of the white settlers needed to develop cotton and start their fortunes, and they would do nearly anything to do it on the Natives' property. Eventually, white Americans took the Natives land and sent them on their way to, “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult journey was known as the Trail of Tears. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation was written by John Ehle who is an American author born in Asheville, North Carolina. Before becoming an author, Ehle was …show more content…
in exchange for reimbursement, it was negotiated by a Cherokee leader, John Ridge, who claimed to represent the Cherokee Nation when really, he spoke for only a small portion of the group. This book begins with the conception of John Ridge, it incorporates everything that the Cherokees believed in and what Ridge had to do in his initiation to manhood. At this time, the white’s already have a correspondence with the Natives, as one of their forbears is white. Eventually, the American Revolutionary War happens and Major Ridge (John’s father) and his family are driven into the madness. Soon after the war has ended, the only thing that whites are focused on is obtaining good land. A discovery of gold in Georgia leads the white people to the Natives land. After finding that all this land meets their needs, they figure that the Indians are wasting it and come up with a plan to acquire it all. In the meantime, Major Ridge is living his life with his children, he has become a wealthy plantation owner as well as a leader of the Cherokee Nation. His son John becomes an attorney, and his nephew Elias Boudinot becomes the first editor of the Cherokee Newspaper. Eventually, Major Ridge and his family are the first to discover that plans have been made to remove all Natives off their land and send them to the other side of the Mississippi
The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians was written by Anthony F.C. Wallace. In his book, the main argument was how Andrew Jackson had a direct affect on the mistreatment and removal of the native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory. It was a trail of blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the "Trail of Tears".
The Trail of Tears are a series of trails that Andrew Jackson used when he put the Indian Removal Act in 1838. The Trail of Tears is circled around death and sorrow. Every one out of four Indians died on the trips away from their home and to place they were unfamiliar of. All trail ended in Oklahoma and today it is marked with a statue of an Indian on a horse.
Along the way 4,000 Indians died because of the harsh terrane and the cruelty of the soldiers and many of them are buried in unmarked graves along the trail of tears. The trail of tears has been Know according to a white Georgian the “Cruelest work I ever knew”(Tindall pg 343).A few Cherokees Indians hide in the mountains and became knew as the Eastern Band of Cherokees. Later the Creeks and the Chickasaws went back to try to take back control of their lands. During the trail of tears nearly 100,000 Indians were forced to relocate to the west. The government during that time sold about 100 million acres of Native American lands, and most of the land was prime cotton growing
depicting the life of the Cherokee people; specifically the “Treaty party” and John Ross whom are most involved in the fight for territory against the white settlers, and the events leading to their fall as a Cherokee nation, written by John Ehle. Ehle explains how the Cherokee people were forced to adopt European-American ways; through hunting, education, language, religion and jobs; the Whites were eager to turn the Cherokees into more “civilized” people, and eventually leading to them taking more and more of their land and resources. Ehle examines the events leading up to the forcible removal of the Cherokee nation; examining the Georgia gold strike, the terms of the “Treaty of Echota” and the eventual forcible removal of the nation.
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle is all about the events and the people that were involved in the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the removal of the whole Cherokee Nation to “Indian Territory” in which they would never “bother” whites again. Ehle puts the main focus on a particular group in order to gain the readers attention more. I think that he did this on purpose, because I definitely think that I was more sympathetic towards this group of people than I would have been if it was a bunch of random people through out the novel.
Ellis, Jerry. Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. New
This “john Ehle” book was published in 1988, and talked about the story of soldiers arriving at the homes of Cherokee people in the Southeast and forcing them to walk a couple of hundreds of miles westward. Walking beat footed in the tardy fall and winter with mere clothings and supplies, many died of hunger, disease, exposure, and lassitude along the “Trail of Tears”. the author withal verbalized about the history of European-American encroachment on the five affected tribes in the Southeast, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, giving special attention to the actions and influence of Andrew Jackson. The book organizes a good deal of historical information into a cogent presentation of the events and issues leading to the
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race.” - Martin Luther King Jr. The Trail of Tears is a historical title given to an event that happened in 1838.In this event, the Cherokee community of Native Americans was forced by the USA government to move from their native home in the Southern part of the contemporary America to what is known as the Indian territories of Oklahoma. While some travelled by water, most of them travelled by land. The Cherokees took 6 months to complete an 800 mile distance to their destination.
Before the beginning of the Trail of Tears in 1838, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived across the East coast of the US. Native Americans inhabited millions of acres of land across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. By the time White Europeans encountered Native Americans, they had already developed a complex society. This society was built on intricate languages, alphabets, number systems, and other numerous means of communication. However, During and after the trail of tears it was a widely and strongly implicated myth that Native Americans were mentally inept, and virtually incapable of creating such a society. False propaganda was heavily used against Native Americans. Native Americans were labeled
I walked into the room on New Year’s Day and felt a sudden twinge of fear. My eyes already hurt from the tears I had shed and those tears would not stop even then the last viewing before we had to leave. She lay quietly on the bed with her face as void of emotion as a sheet of paper without the writing. Slowly, I approached the cold lifeless form that was once my mother and gave her a goodbye kiss.
The history regarding the treatment and abuse of the Cherokee people during the 19th century is a well researched topic of discussion. The Trail of Tears is known as the forced movement of the Cherokee people out of their homeland into what is present day Oklahoma. It was named The Trail of Tears due to the disastrous effect it had on the Cherokee people and many died of starvation along the journey. After the Civil War the Cherokee people faced the repercussions of the Dawes Act of 1887, which forced allotment of Indian territory and forced assimilation. Considering the Cherokee Women in Crisis, Carolyn Johnston focuses on the changing gender roles of Cherokee women and how their suffering differed from the men. Johnston limits the areas of
In the essay, “The Trail of Tears” by author Dee Brown explains that the Cherokees isn’t Native Americans that evaporate effectively from their tribal land, but the enormous measure of sympathy supported on their side that was abnormal. The Cherokees process towards culture also the treachery of both states and incorporated governments of the declaration and promises that contrived to the Cherokee nation. Dee Brown wraps up that the Cherokees had lost Kentucky and Tennessee, but a man who once consider their buddy named Andrew Jackson had begged the Cherokees to move to Mississippi but the bad part is the Indians and white settlers never get along together even if the government wanted to take care of them from harassment it shall be incapable to do that. The Cherokee families moved to the West, but the tribes were together and denied to give up more land but Jackson was running for President if the Georgians elects him as President he agreed that he should give his own support to open up the Cherokee lands for establishment.
Unconcerned about the legitimacy of their actions, European colonisers took lands unjustifiably from indigenous people and put original inhabitants who had lived on the land for centuries in misery. The United States also shared similarities in dealing with native people like its distant friends in Europe. Besides the cession of vast lands, the federal government of the United States showed no pity, nor repentance for the poor Cherokee people. Theda Perdue, the author of “Cherokee Women and Trail of Tears,” unfolds the scroll of history of Cherokee nation’s resistance against the United States by analyzing the character of women in the society, criticizes that American government traumatized Cherokee nation and devastated the social order of
Gloria Jahoda, the author of The Trail of Tears talks about how Indian populations dropped and how white people are the ones responsible for the drop of their population. The white men are not responsible for the drop of the Indian population. Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. Johoda is making excuses for Indians because Indians let the white man take over their lives and life style.
Summary: The image depicted above shows a group of cheerleaders holding up a sign with the words “Hey Indians Get Ready for A Trail of TEARS Part 2.” In the top right hand corner of the sign, a drawing of a single blue eye, with a red tear, is visible. The sign is at the forefront of the photo and in the background a marching band is visible. The name “Indians” is in reference to the opposing team. The photo shows both the cheerleaders and the marching band on a football field.