Trail Of Tears
A hundred and fifty years after the Cherokee were forced from the southern Appalachians to Oklahoma; one man of Cherokee descent revisited the old capital of New Echota. He wrote " My whole body chills as I face once again the fact that an entire nation was moved to another part of the country like wild horses to the dog food company." The Cherokee Indians were not the only native Americans to be forced west of the Mississippi by the removal act. (Lang 22) tribes from Florida to the Great Lakes were also moved. (Khun 13) You rarely hear of the other tribes because the suffering of the Cherokees seems to overshadow it all. In the early 1800's Cherokee life was fairly simple. They were a hard working group of people who often lived together in small communities. They were a spiritual and religious people who believed the were the "principle people. (Khun 22) This belief was not shared by the white race who looked down upon them. The Cherokee's interaction with the whites was limited to tra
(Lang 42) The reason behind the treaty had to do with the gold found on the Cherokee territory earlier that year. (Lang 50) These groups were able to keep their homes because there was no gold were they lived and the land was to rocky for farming. (Lang52) By the summer of 1838 many groups of Cherokees were on there was to Oklahoma, crossing the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Wool was in charge of moving the Indians by the January 1839. (Scott-Green 37) Fifteen of the eighteen thousand Cherokees opposed the treaty. It took some as long as six months to make the on month trip. He helped the Cherokees trade fairly with the whites and bought their land for them in his name since they were unable to do so. By June, Scott announced he had almost all the Cherokees in stockades. (Lang58) As the last group of Cherokees limped across the Missouri, they left tracks of blood in the snow. (Scott-Green 92) No one knows exactly how many Cherokees died. (Lang 49) The treaty of New Echota was issued December 29th 1835 by congress. The government supplied enough food and money for the predetermined 80-day trip. The life lost and the dignity destroyed has had a huge impact on generations of Cherokees. (Lang 42)The three thousand who supported it were mix-bloods.
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