The Trail Of Tears : The Rise And Fall Of The Cherokee Nation

The Cherokee nation, located in North Carolina before their removal, now locate it in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. A great city of great and wonderful people. The trail of tears, which means the place where they cried, does not only describe the removal of the Cherokees from their land, but it also describes the death of so many of them and the loss of their traditional and gorgeous houses. Nowadays, Cherokee descent had created a play that describe what happened to their removal of North Carolina across the Mississippi river to Oklahoma. Even though, they try to describe all the drama, the sadness, tears and blood that was shed, they will never be able to revive what happened because the trails where they had to walk are green with so much flowers that have blossomed and are hiding all the terror that the Cherokees had to live. There had been removals of Native Americans before the Cherokees in the United States. In other parts of North America also have existed the removal of citizens for example, the expulsion of the French Acadian from Nova Scotia by the British. This types of events have affected the world, the United States and the Cherokees.

The authors’ name of the book called Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation is John Ehle. Trail of Tears was published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of random house, New York and in Canada. This book was published in September 22, 1989. This book has 424 pages.

Having little knowledge of the Cherokee removal and the history that took place in this moment in America’s past, the book Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, offers an insight to the politics, social dynamics and class struggles the Cherokee Nation faced in the late 1830s. The book was very comprehensive and the scope of the book covers nearly 100 years of Native American History. Ehle captures the history of the Native American people by showing the readers what led to the events infamously known as the Trail of Tears. The author uses real military orders, journals, and letters which aid in creating a book that keeps

I picked the topic “The Trail of Tears” because it seems if you asked a typical teenager today what the Trail of Tears means to them, you would more than likely get a simple shoulder shrug. Probably the same response you would receive upon asking an adult of an event that occurred in the fifth grade. If you asked a Native American what the Trail of Tears means to them, you would have a vivid picture of pain, heartache, and disappointment painted for you. It started when President Andrew Jackson wanted the Indian’s land and the Indians believed the land was not just something to be given away or sold, it was really something to embrace and love. With that being said, Jackson came up with “The Indian Removal Act”. In the early to late 1830’s,

The Trail of Tears: A Tragic History and Its Lasting Impact on Native American Communities By: Payton Guss. Have you ever wondered about the tragic history of the Trail of Tears and its lasting impact on Native American communities? The Trail of Tears refers to the forced removal of Native American tribes, such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma during the 1830s. This research paper aims to explore the government policies implemented during the Trail of Tears and their detrimental impact on indigenous communities. The government's actions resulted in forced displacement, loss of ancestral lands, and a significant decline in

Thousands of people walk in huddles through a cruel winter, away from the homes they have always known, and from land sacred to their ancestors. Slowly, the people die from disease, starvation, and exposure to the elements as they walk for thousands of miles over a period of several months towards a land they know absolutely nothing about. All they can do is move forward, even as the people next to them die, because they are not allowed to go back to the land that was once freely theirs. This deadly trek is known today as the trail of tears, which was the forced removal of the southern indigenous people of America by the United States. The people who made this tragic event take place were the people of the south who felt that they had a right

The Trail of Tears is still one of the most gruesome events in American History. It all started when the president at the time, Andrew Jackson, ordered what he called “Indian Removal”. Otherwise knows as the Indian Removal Act. This let the government negotiate to remove treaties with the Native-Americans and Americans freely.

The trail of tears is also referred to as the period of Indian s removal. It was a period where Native Americans in the U.S were forcefully relocated following the removal of Indian Removal Act of 1830. Those who were forcibly moved were from Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, and Chickasaw and Choctaw nations in the southern U.S, an area initially referred to as the Indian Territory. Migration from Cherokee nation had begun in the early 1800’s where some Cherokee’s decided to move and settle in other parts of the country. A group of Old Settlers had moved there earlier in 1817 voluntarily to lands granted to them in Arkansas where they had a peaceful life. Afterward, they were forced to move into the I Indian Territory (A. Byers 27)

The Trail of Tears was a terrible event that had to deal with the relocation of the Native American tribes that lived east of the Mississippi river. Americans began to get greedy and wanted to take over the lands of the Native Americans and claim them as their own. In this research paper, topics of the Cherokee tribe and the effect the trail of tears had on them will be discussed. It includes the lifestyles of this tribe before the relocation, during the relocation, and the effects it had on this tribe. It will also discuss the efforts the Cherokee people put in to help save their nation. The Trail of Tears was a devastating event and left a huge impression on how the Americans viewed and treated the Native Americans.

The trail of tears, enacted by the Jackson administration in 1838, was a mass exodus of Native Americans from their home land to Oklahoma. This was a branch of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In North Carolina, the Cherokee hid in the forests of the Great Smokey Mountains. Prior to this removal, there were 20,000 Native Cherokee, but after, only 300 remained. Those who stayed in the North Carolina mountains, received the title: the “Eastern Band” of Cherokee, as opposed to those who made it to Oklahoma and deemed the Cherokee Nation.

The phrase “Trail of Tears” is used to refer to similar events endured by other Indian groups, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes". The phrase originated as a description of the voluntary removal of the Choctaw nation in 1831.

The Trail of Tears was a devastating forced march of 800 miles of the Cherokee Nation. Andrew Jackson strongly believed that the removal of Indians from the east would benefit the nation and the Cherokees. In reality, only the United States benefited from the removal and many Cherokees suffered and died and, in the end, did not get what they were promised. Even then the Cherokees remained strong, kept their beliefs, and continued to

Many were driven from their homes to reservations, or forced to bend a knee to the "white man 's" ways. One tribe, the Cherokee, was compelled to leave their lands in Oklahoma by the United States Government. Compelled to march with the provisions and belongings they could carry upon their back or horse, many died of exposure, starvation, or disease. (Trail) This event came to be known as “The Trail of Tears”. These people were forced from their lands, homes, worship sites, and ancestral burial grounds in the name of progress. Foreign progress, to them, if I may add. They, at their core, did not care that Continental America was flourishing. They only wanted to be left alone in their ancestral homeland. Now, in their eyes, they were being persecuted for their faith and culture. One group of Sioux stood up against the tide of imperialism. They were victorious at the Battle of Little Bighorn, but were defeated at the massacre of Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee was the final major conflict that put the majority of the Native Americans in their “place”. The Sioux under Big Foot were ordered to give up their fire arms. They responded with a reply, saying they had none. The medicine man began to dance the “Ghost Dance” frantically, while wearing paint. The soldiers, fearing an outbreak of violence was about to occur, opened fire. When the haze of smoke had cleared, the bodies of men,

The trails of tears, a grueling, nearly 1,000 mile walk in which about 4,000 Natives died. In 1838 and 1839, in accordance with President Jackson’s Indian Removal act, the Cherokee Indians gave up their land in the East. This was in exchange for land in the west and peace with the Unites States. The trail of tears was a long journey, headed by an American General followed by an army sent by President Van Buren. Dictionary.com defines justified as, “to show a satisfactory reason or excuse for something done” and the Trail of Tears as “The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans… Those on the march suffered greatly from disease and mistreatment.” The State of Georgia and the government of the United States of America were not justified in forcing the Indian Tribes east of the Mississippi River from their homelands and into Oklahoma territory due the infringement of the Treaty of New Echota, the cruelty subjected to the Cherokee, and the basis of all American politics.

While the government set its bias plan in motion, it was up to tribes to resist forceful evacuations. US soldiers fueled by racism and prejudice, forced the Cherokee west (Dwyer, 2014, p. 37). This began the final tribe’s relocation, the Cherokee. The Cherokee explained that it was common to see US soldiers sacking graves and removing objects of financial value from corpses along what they called, “The Place Where We Cried” (Dwyer, 2014, p. 37). This was the most blatant form of bias, racism and prejudice during the Trail of Tears. This behavior continued, but eventually created additional pain and suffering for Native Americans making this death defying journey.