Push And Pull Factors Of Indian Trail Of Tears

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The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians were forced to migrate from their native homelands because the new settlers coming to the U.S. wanted the Native’s land. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the main enforcers of removing the Indians and relocating them to the land that we now call Oklahoma. This plan was called the Indian Removal Act. A few Indians felt insecure and left immediately, but the other 100,000 or so from places like Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida stayed. Soon enough, gold was discovered to be amongst the Cherokee lands, giving the settlers even more of a reason why they want it as soon as possible. The Treaty of New Echota was soon created that allowed the Indians

The Trail of Tears is a very clear and obvious example of forced migration. Forced migration is when one group of people forces another to move / leave for the benefit of someone / something else. In this case, the new settlers are forcing the Indians that have been living in these lands for thousands of years, to move to other reserved land that they’ve never been to. The reason that this is the absolute strongest push factor of the Trail of Tears is because the idea of forced migration is basically the whole idea of why the Indians walked along the Trail of Tears in the first place. Nps.gov talks about how Thomas Jefferson created the Indian Removal Act to get rid of the indians so that him and his settlers could have all their land to themselves. This evidence is important to the idea of forced migration because the indians had no say in where they could live or how they’d get there. They were brutally forced to move from their home to wherever they were told to

and the rest of the world was their music and how they expressed themselves with and through it. Many ancient instruments such as rattles, drums and other flutes are still used to this day. According to the article titled, The Evolution of Cherokee Music, “Native American music is and always was considered sacred to them and is used for healing and building community connections.” Their music is passed down many and many generations orally and physically through music, dance and song. All instruments during a performance have their own spiritual significance. Some native tribes used their music as a way of praying to their god(s) for hope, peace and acceptance. Music is and always was a very important aspect of the Cherokee’s lives, ways of expressing themselves and what they believed in. It got them through hard times and always kept them positive with hope that no matter how bad things would get, they’d always end up in their favor. This is why music was the most influential aspect of the Cherokee Indian’s culture, then during the time of the Trail of Tears, and even still