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How Did Indian Nations Resist Removal

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How did Indian nations resist removal? The Indian nations of the south such as the Creeks, the Cherokees, Choctaws and the Seminole resisted removal mainly through non-violent strategies and regulated treaties with the white settlers in hopes of residing on their land instead of deserting to another unfamiliar location. Little regards were given to Indians regardless of what side they were in favor of during the Revolution and how well the first settlers were treated when they first landed. The Creek Indians did not band together with one mindset and one goal in pushing out the white people from their land, instead some Creeks wanting to accept the way of the white man and their civilization in order to live together in peace while others, calling themselves “Red Sticks” insisting on their …show more content…

The remaining Cherokee Indians were surrounded by the mast increasing majority of the whites. With the increasing of the white the population, the Cherokee were forced to adapt to the white man’s world and their way of life to blend in for survival. They created their own government, they became farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, owners of property. The Cherokees nation resisted removal using political means by publishing newspaper through the pressing press and protesting to the federal government; addressing memorial to the nation; a public plea for justice resulting in Georgia passing a law making it a crime for a white person to stay in Indian territory without taking an oath to the state of Georgia. The Cherokee Indians went through lawful and political means of resistance to avoid removal but it was ignored and their land was put on sale, property taken, and treaty created; still the Cherokee followed a policy of

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