Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown starts off discussing the relationship between the Native-Americans and the Whites. Along with the backstory of Christopher Columbus during the discovery of North America while on an expedition. It then discusses the history of the American and European discovery towards the settlement in North America from the late 1400s until the mid-1800s and how it affected the Native-Americans. What was once diplomatic‚ became more vicious as white exile from Europe
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1. I agree that actions committed by the United States on the southeastern American Indians was ethnic cleansing. While viewing the assigned video‚ I determined two examples of ethnic cleansing. The passing of laws in Georgia restricting the land in which the Cherokee were allowed to inhabit served to concentrate them in a single area for the means of subjugation. Further laws were passed deeming the meeting of leading members to be illegal. Federal agents were also sent in to coerce Cherokee leaders
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Annotated Bibliography Blackburn‚ Marion. "Return or the trail of tears." Mar.-Apr. 53-64. ebsco. Web. It’s easy to miss this subtle groove‚ covered in pine straw and vines‚ worn in the ground of eastern Tennessee. In the summer of 1838‚ about 13‚000 Cherokee walked this path from their homes in the Appalachian Mountains to a new‚ government mandated homeland in Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears was a journey of some 900 miles that took approximately nine months to complete. After they were rounded
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Zinn Chapter 7: As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs Questions 1. Chapter 7 deals immensely with the Native Americans and their survival based upon the government taking their lands. 2. Zinn showed the impact of the Indian removal by talking about the book Fathers and Children‚ which shows statistics of the matter. 3. When Thomas Jefferson was Secretary of State‚ he believed that the Indians should just be left alone. Once he became president‚ he wanted to remove the Indians. I believe
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Before The Trail of Tears was even a thought we first experience assimilation with Moravian missionaries being allowed on the Cherokee’s land. This tribe was very much settled‚ they had a newspaper‚ a form of slavery and even had gone as far as to adopt a government based mostly around that of the United States. In 1802 Georgia ceded their claim of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the federal government‚ in return Georgia wanted Cherokees out. Pleads were being made by tribes to stay
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The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears‚ a gruesome event taking place in the mid 1800’s. Andrew Jackson and his Indian removal Act‚ it costed the land of the Cherokees of the east Mississippi River to be taken away from them. Due to the land being stolen‚ the Cherokees had to migrate to the present-day of Oklahoma. With its devastating events such as‚ Hunger‚ disease‚ and exhaustion. Years later‚ The Cherokee people named the migration "The Trail of Tears". Over 4‚000 of 15‚000 of Cherokees were
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As new people came to America and began to settle‚ Native Americans were pushed farther and farther away from their homeland. Their land was taken from them and their freedoms were long gone. White settlers had created restrictions on their land‚ trade‚ and freedom which are still in effect today. The real crisis began soon after Andrew Jackson was elected president. Native Americans had already lost freedom of trade in 1787‚ when the Constitution granted power to the government to regulate
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Reflections on The Native American Boarding Schools‚ the National Government decided that Native Americans will be assimilating into white American culture. The intent existed to turn Native Americans Indians to imitate white men in a liberal civilizing mission. The government wanted the Native Americans to learn English and be domestic. In 1875‚ Captain Pratt decided to take a group of Indians‚ suspected of murdering white settlers and put them in a boarding school. Pratt moved the Native Americans
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The trail of tears was one of the harshest punishments that the Native American population have faced. The trail of tears had many causes however the event it self took place in 1838 when General Winfield Scott rounded up as many Cherokee Indians as he could and forced them to walk to Oklahoma. The reasoning behind the naming of this event is due to the number of casualties due to disease and exposure to disease during this historical event. There were numerous people which led to the event such
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Native Americans have shed a river of tears‚ tears that have been forgotten only to end up written in history later on. The Chickasaw‚ a Native American tribe that first originated from Mississippi‚ was part many of many other tribes that suffered from the Indian Removal Act in 1830. President Jackson‚ demonstrated who his true colors were after he made the Chickasaw among four other groups walk in the middle of the winter into “Indian Territory”‚ also known as Oklahoma‚ “The United States promised
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