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How The Includ Trail Of Tears Dehumanize Native Americans

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The Trail of Tears: Genocide against the Native Americans At the beginning of the 1830s, the United States government began to remove American Indian tribes from the southeast following the following the passage of the Indian Removal Act which signed by President Andrew Jackson for the purpose of exchanging the land that Indians owned in east of river Mississippi to a land in Louisiana that was named as the Indian territory. The government order to During the journey, many Native American died as they had to travel on foot and they experienced many problems during the long journey due to lack of basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. On the other hand, many Indians died as they were left behind to try and fight for their land. The Indians from five different tribes were removed which …show more content…

During the Indian Removal, many Indian tribes were forced to leave their land without their will. They were removed in a brutal manner from their homeland by white settlers and their properties were stolen from them. “Just as important for the people, their land, from which had flowed their religion, their social customs, their very sense of themselves as a people, was taken from them forever. Their towns were destroyed, their scared lakes, meeting grounds, and graveyards barred to them, their farms were given to European settlers.” Not only the Indians sacrificed their land, they were also separated from their families. “Our wives and children were taken by the white men along with the rest of the Seminoles. Because our families were in the hands of the government authorities so we thought it best to surrender. We were bound and made prisoners.” Many Indians were put into the enslavement so the white settlers could use them to work for them. On the other hand, many Indians were put into the prison who refused to give up their native lands to white

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“The settler colonial logic of elimination in its crudest form, a violent rejection of all things Indian, was transformed into a paternalistic mode of governmentality which, though still sanctioned by state violence, came to focus on assimilation rather than rejection.” –Patrick Wolfe, After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy, 13 Wolfe’s statement illustrates how the US government put more emphasis on legalized absorption of Indians into the White society rather than using forceful and violent methods to acquire the Natives’ land. After the colonization of the westward land and the end of the Frontier era, the US government’s method of assimilation of the Indians started revolving around allotment and blood quanta. With no place to further push the Natives away, the established Bureau of Indian Affairs and the government took action to eliminate the Natives culturally and spiritually instead of physically.

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After viewing “500 Nations- Attack On Cultures”, the “white man” stripped the Indians of everything that would identify them as Indians. Many traditions that Indians shared with each other were banished and forbidden to be practiced. Objects that Indians owned were taken and they were left living in poverty and depending on the “white man” to live. They were forced to change their way of life and become more like white farmers because that was “normal”. Many Indians were forced to learn new ways of life and there wasn’t any turning back.

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In the book, The Cherokee Removal, Perdue and Green argue that the Cherokee Nation was treated unfairly by the U.S. Government in the 1800s. The majority of Americans were not fond of the Native Americans, and the Americans felt as if the Native Americans were on their rightfully owned property. Perdue and Green display how the states were trying to remove the Natives when they write, “A state could use its legal institutions to make life for Indians so miserable that they would gladly sell their lands and flee to the West” (Perdue and Green, 73).

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The Act led to an array of legal and moral arguments for and against the need to relocate the Indians westward from the agriculturally productive lands of the Mississippi in Georgia and parts of Alabama. This paper compares and contrasts the major arguments for and against the

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In the year 1830, Andrew Jackson and congress passed the Indian Removal Act with little opposition within the government. The result was the death of thousands of Native Americans as well as skirmishes between Native Americans and the United States Military. The end result of the Indian Removal Act was the Trail of Tears, which was the path that the Native Americans took to move west. While taking this path, the Native Americans placed a marker for every person that died, because of the lack of food and harsh conditions, creating a trail of markers for the dead, hence the name Trail of Tears. In Document A, the text states,” He imposed a cruel policy of Indian removal, forcing tribes of the Southeast across a brutal march to the Oklahoma territory.”

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There were many wars fought between the Indians and the whites. Many Indians gave up their lives to keep their way of life, but their effort was for nothing (Doc 4 and Doc 6). The whites took their land and then sold it at low prices to those moving to the west, and the Indians that were left had to think about their children and decided to leave (Doc 1). A well-known example of this process was the “Trail of Tears” which was the trail the Cherokee Indians took to their reservation and the trail was many died of illness, starvation or were shot for not keeping up with the group. The final thing

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What if someone had come to your home and told you that you and your family had to relocate to a new place? This had been the home you grew up in, your parents grew up in, and your grandparents had grown up in; and the property your home sat on had been in your family for generations. How would you deal with federal officers telling you that you had to leave the only home that you had ever known? Imagine how the Indians felt when the Indian Removal Act was passed. Native Americans were pressured to negotiate treaties for relocation from their homelands in the East to Indian Territory in the West; so that the white settlers could expand their colonies.

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But the Indian Removal Act of 1830 tells a different story by saying “That it may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state of organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished”. The Trail of Tears was the forceful removal of Indians from their lands to areas west of the Mississippi River. From 1830 through 1840 100,000 Native American Indians from the east were forced to re settle by the U.S. Army. Many Native Americans were killed or died on the Trail of

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The Genocide: Trail of Tears/ The Indian removal act During the 1830s the united states congress and president Andrew Jackson created and passed the “Indian removal act”. Which allowed Jackson to forcibly remove the Indians from their native lands in the southeastern states, such as Florida and Mississippi, and send them to specific “Indian reservations” across the Mississippi river, so the whites could take over their land. From 1830-1839 the five civilized tribes (The Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and Chickasaw) were forced, sometimes by gun point, to march about 1,000 miles to what is present day Oklahoma.

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Trail of Tear In the 19th century, the U.S. decides to expand it territories into the homelands of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole (also known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”). Destroying the homes of the natives all for growing cotton. Such an unlawful act for a selfish reason. Starting with Andrew Jackson and the Indian removal act leading to tension rising between the tribes. Contributing to the to the split of the cherokees at pea ridge and the battle of Wilson's creek.

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In 1838 the Cherokee Nation was forcibly removed to reserved areas in what has been called “The Trail of Tears.” It is estimated that almost 8,000 Cherokee people died on the forced

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At the beginning of the 1830’s nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. This land had been occupied by them for centuries. Because white settlers wanted to grow cotton on the Indians land, the federal government forced the Indians to leave their homelands and walk to a new “Indian Territory.” Which would later be known as Oklahoma. This difficult and deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears, the Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of May 26, 1830.

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Government enacted numerous policies that allowed them to overtake and control American Indians. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, signed by President Andrew Jackson, forced American Indian tribes off of their lands and relocated them into reservations. During the Trail of Tears, they had to travel on foot to reservation sites; consequently, many died and some barely even reached their destination. Moreover, the Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, allowed White settlers to fill out an application in order to own a portion of the land that was stolen from the American Indians. Likewise, the Dawes Act of 1887, passed under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the U.S. government to divide and distribute tribal lands to American Indians.

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