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As I look at the lines on my hands and the color on my skin I know by heart the many lives that were ended, and millions who resisted. My heroes are never discussed, never praised like the presidents. My heroes were the foundation of why America stands today and for the remaining years ahead. In 1492, a forceful resistance to culture invasion erupted in America. As expolorers and settlers entered the America there was no intentions to keep the natives there. The reason why we still have a high percentage of native peoples today is because they resist till their last breath so their stories and teaching would not be forgotten. Today millions of indigenous communities are fighting and protesting for the very same issues that happened centuries …show more content…

Natives tried to resist and defend their land, but the white’s weapons were too advanced. The idea of selling land was misunderstood because of language differences. As settler with Christian ideologies expanded, Native culture became an issue. Different laws were passed by several presidents stating, that Indians should be removed. With all the power of a president, Andrew Jackson signed into law The Indian removal act which forced millions of Native Americans off their sacred lands. They were pushed away with many broken promises and signed treaties. Natives were miserable, they did not want to give up their lands but they had no choice, the government was too strong. The act also authorized the slaughter of numerous villages. Redbird clarifies that with lack of weapons, native had no choice than to be forced off their lands. The US stole acres of land and forced them to relocated and live in regions that were unbearable for tribe populations. They were put on their own plot of land where they were not allowed to leave, and hunt much. The U.S government called them reservations. According to the article “Following the footsteps of our Cherokee ancestors," the author Megan Hansen describes the Trail of Tears an important date in American history when Native Americans were forced out of their homeland. (Hansen) The trail was aimed to kill them along the journey; Natives had to face unbearable circumstance, many of them died from a lack of nourishment, dehydration, and several diseases that their bodies could not withstand; that also includes the numerous of the times U.S soldiers raped the women and mistreated

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On their way there they had faced many cons and had lost many of their families that either died of disobeying Congress or of sickness from traveling on foot or traveling on water. This harsh and inhumane action of them traveling so far for land was called The Trail of Tears. Many things had happened when the Cherokee were forced to move from their land. When they were told to move some Indians left respectfully and many did not. Most stayed for their land which was passed by Andrew Jackson to move and force the Indians away.

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When the indians were being removed to the west over 4,000 cherokees died. These indians died because the U.S wanted more land which was not right because they were here first. This was called “The Trail of Tears”. On May 28 1830 two years later after Andrew Jackson was elected as the president, he signed the Removal Act. Before the Cherokees left their land they refused.

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government’s main goal was to displace them from their lands for the sole profit and benefit of the American people. This notion was achieved upon the Indian Removal Act of 1830, issued by President Andrew Jackson himself. Jackson admitted that though the general policy was to civilize the Natives, the government was also keen to “purchase their lands and thrust them farther into the wilderness” (Doc 4). The wilderness, in this case, would be the designated Indian Territory west of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory (Doc 7). This territory was leagues away from the various tribes’ homelands, one tribe even being removed from the southern tip of Florida.

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Despite the negative outcome of the attack, they did not flee from the war. Instead, their numbers kept increasing due to the need for more manpower. As at the end of the war, their numbers had hiked up to a high population of 44,000 Native Indians. It is evident that Native Americans showcased a high sense of loyalty to a society that had for a long time disregarded and failed to recognize

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More indians tribes were destroyed during war with the whites, and since the Native Americans did not have as much technology, food, and medicine as the whites, they lost a lot of warriors. Many Native Americans would leave their tribes in search for food only to be confronted and ambushed by white soldiers. Some Native Americans chose to surrender rather than to be moved to a different location. After the Indian and American War, the General Allotment Act was passed, also known as The Dawes Act of 1887. The Dawes Act granted Native Americans land allotments.

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In the late 1800s, tensions were rising between white Americans and Native Americans. The white Americans wanted the Native Americans to conform to their definition of civility. The Native Americans had clung tightly to their culture and religious practices during a time of continuous encroachment and governmental pressure by the white Americans. By this time, Native Americans had already been forced westward onto reservations through government action. Andrew Jackson had set this migration in motion earlier in the century, and the migration pattern would later be referred to as the “Trail of Tears”.

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While making this gruesome travel more than 4,000 Indians died from disease, starvation and treacherous conditions. This travel became known as the “trails of tears”. These Native Americans were not how white settlement described them. Many of the tribes adopted Euro-american practices and created their own communities with schools and churches, even developed their own languages and created bilingual newspapers.

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The Cherokee took the Georgian government to court over their land rights. It eventually escalated to Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the Cherokee keeping their land. However, the president, Andrew Jackson was used the power given to him in the Indian Removal Act to reject the Supreme Court’s ruling and kick the Cherokee off anyway. Much later in 1838, the Cherokee were forced to walk 1,200 miles from their land all the way to Oklahoma,in what is now called the Trail of Tears. It was full of horrible violations of basic human rights, such as being granted no place to sleep and were deprived of rest during the frigid winter.

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Indians were being surrounded a whole nation and not willing to give up their life style and costumes, relocation was best option in order to stay alive and take care of their culture. During the late 1820s a number of small “civilized tribes” had become a part of American society; some have moved into cabins, houses, and even mansions. After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, there was great unpleasant experience among the Indians who decided to remain on the natural land and way of life. Some of the Indians rejected the money given by Americans for their land. They stated that too much of their land had been taken already in the past 20 years and would defend and die for the land if it was necessary.

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In 1803, the Americans purchased the Louisiana Purchase. Anyways, little did they know, there were many Indians scattered throughout this territory who would not give up their land. The American people started to travel West on the Oregon Trail where they didn’t really interfere with the Indians on their way to finding gold, but something had to be done about the Indians on American property. The Indian Removal Act, issued by Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States of America.

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As a part of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Native American people were forcefully assembled and made to endure one of the longest walks from Georgia to Oklahoma on what has become known as the Trail of Tears. President Andrew Jackson’s motives for movement of the Native people to a new territory was to eliminate the Native race by stripping the victims of their vital resources needed for basic survival. After 178 years of expansion and growth in the United States of America, the circumstances for Native Americans remain unchanged. President Jackson’s sentiments have permeated the present society in issues associated with the physical and emotional fight to decolonize. Decolonization is both the individual and communal effort to regenerate

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The “Trail of Tears” is where the Cherokee nation was forced to move to the east. The “Trail of Tears” was part of Jackson 's Indian Removal Act of 1830. In the textbook “The American Pageant”, page 267 in the book it states that “Jackson’s policy led to the forced uprooting of more than 100,000 Indians. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, providing for the transplanting of all Indian tribe then resident east of the Mississippi.” In other words this is saying that, because of Jackson’s selfishness of wanting to expand land more than 100,000 Indians lost their lands.

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Most tribes tried peaceful solutions with America but almost all of them failed. When Native Americans tried to fight back they stood no chance and were then forced to move by indian removal acts. The Indian removal acts were pushed the most by President Andrew Jackson. He believed they were a waste of space and the land should instead be used as cotton farms. The trails they would take from their native lands to lands that were reserved as Indian territory.

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Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less than respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land, and to achieve this goal, the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history, and the US government made many treatments with the Native Americans, making big changes on the Indian nation. Native Americans wanted to live peacefully with the white men, but the result of treatments and agreements was not quite peaceful. This precedent of mistreatment of minorities began with Andrew Jackson’s indian removal policies to the tribes of Oklahoma (specifically the Cherokee indians) in 1829 because of the lack of respect given to the indians during the removal laws.

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Trail of Tears The name of the Trail of Tears came from a Cherokee phrase that meant “the place where they cried.” In my opinion it was not correct from the European colonists to evict all the indigenous Americans, they had been living there for thousand of years and only they had right to live there. The people were treated with disrespect, and one of the only reasons this happened was because the government decided that land, gold and other finite resources were more important than lives of Indians.

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