Trail of Tears
"We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth... it is with 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 brought 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 history of the Cherokee Nation we are trying, but without success, to be as unbiased as possible. It's the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson is mounting up forces against the Pro-British party of the Creek Indians. The United States appealed for Cherokee support for aid in war against Tecumseh and another Indian known as Red Sticks. The Cherokee Nation replied with six to eight hundred of their best warriors. It was this war were the Indians fought side by side with Jackson. After a treaty in 1814 was forced on the Creek Indians, the Cherokees filed claims for their loss. There was no promise that their claims would be acknowledg
Andrew Jackson demanded the session of twenty-three million acres of land to the United States. The covered wagons were very detailed. The setting did indeed seem to be in the mid to early 1800s. To put it best in a current perspective a Seminole Indian Wrote: "We have been taught that the "Trail of Tears" started in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and ended in Oklahoma, but that simply is not true. The Cherokees protested again to Indian agent Jonathan Meigs in the War Department. Ross persuaded General Scott to approve a budget for the captive Indians of Seventeen cents per Indian per day. This would seem more of a punishment given to a dog that attacked its owner. He also stated that at least three but, up to five people died per day on the trail. Ross was part of the immigration management committee. The trail passes through the Places called poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, desperation, lost culture; you can stop and visit hunger on you travels down the trail. The government would hope to make this money back by the sale of this abandoned land. The government would consider this a self-supervised removal.
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