This Is How It Was: The Two Views of History
A proud nation of people who thrived on North American land through agriculture and unity, a people that fought for their independence and freedoms from invading tyrannical powers. The tax ridden and repressed colonists-no, but instead the Cherokee Nation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains area. The Cherokee (known by themselves as the Aniyunwiya or Tsalagi) were accomplished agriculturalists and were a thriving settlement when Desoto's expedition discovered them in the 1540s. After the arrival of the white man, there was constant treachery and war. Trade was the main form of contact between settlers and Cherokees between 1500s and the middle of the 17th century. Though increasing population of European settlers on Cherokee territory would lead to many battles fought on that front, and eventually would lead to the infamous trail of tears. The warring era of the Cherokee did not begin with European settlement, for there were many battles between different tribes. When the white man arrived war was under different circumstances, and there was a lot of betrayal and backstabbing. In 1680 the Cherokee found themselves in quite a predicament with heat coming from all angles: To the east was the Catawba, to the south the
The New Settlers arrived and wanted to put in their new government of elected officials, which did not mix with the old ways of the Cherokee. So the Cherokee took their case to the courts and the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees had the legal right to stay, yet Jackson had other plans and eventually forced them to march inhumanely to Oklahoma. The reasoning behind the upheaval and removal of the newly established Cherokees of the East was due to the expansion of colonies, discovery of gold in Georgia, and the election of Andrew Jackson (1828). Then in 1828, (after much complaint from local settlers to the Arkansas area) the Cherokee of Arkansas agreed to move to Oklahoma. Once the American Revolution was upon the British, they rushed to make peace with the Cherokee in order to focus on their tasks with the colonists. During the Beaver Wars, the Iroquois Nation was under conquest. The Cherokee golden age would then carry them on through the 1850s until another famous Civil war began. An elected tribal council replaced the old clan system, a capital was created, and a constitution was constructed much like the constitution of the newly revolutionized Americans. Then in 1692, the Shawnee betrayed Cherokee hospitality when they raided a major Cherokee Village in order to capture Indian slaves to trade to the British. Creek and Choctaw, to the west the Chickasaw, and to the north was the Beaver Wars between the French, Dutch, and English. The white "allies" abandoned the helpless men. During this Nazi-like forced march more than 4,000 men, women, and children died. Cherokee Civil War erupted in the spring of 1839 and would last for a long six years.
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