Summary Of Mountain Windsong

Mountain Windsong by Robery J. Colney reflects upon the Indian Removal Act in 1830 through a love story between Oconeechee and Whipperpool. The story unfolds as LeRoy asks his grandfather about the “windsong” on the Carolina reservation where Cherokees descendants once lived. However, these Cherokees were forced to move West because of the laws that were passed by President Andrew Jackson. The tragic narrative gives insight to the historical text and culture of the Cherokees. As we walk along the Trail of Tears through Whipperpool’s narrative, it was clear that despite the removal of the Indian Act, President Andrew Jackson completely abused his power forcing the Cherokees out west undermining them as citizens of the United States. Due to

In order to understand this racial ideology against the Cherokee Freedmen, it traces back to the historical context of the struggle of what the Cherokee tribe experienced by the Whites. Many laws and various acts were passed between the Cherokee tribe and the United States government. Racial profiling was used against the Cherokees in order for the government to get their land and profit from it. In Mountain Windsong the opening passage revealed the trauma the Cherokee

Interesting enough all parties unanimously concluded that the Freedman and their descendants were citizens in the Dawes Roll act in the Constitution of 1975 which included “Cherokee by Blood,” “Minor Cherokees by Blood,” “Cherokee Freedmen,” “Minor Cherokee Freedmen,” “Delaware Cherokee,” and “Intermarried Whites.” In the 1975 Constitution it affirmed that the Dawes Roll was the mainstream behind the Freedmen’s social and political rights. According to Chief Smith voted that the 195 Consitituion exclude the Freedmen descendants and maintain the Indian Nation strictly of Indians. Many political delegates agreed with this view and the result was a 13-2 vote on June 12, 2006, which approved the amendment stating “The Cherokee people exercised the most basic democratic right, the right to vote. . . . Their voice is clear as to who should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. No one else has the right to make that determination. It was a right of self-government, affirmed in 23 treaties with Great Britain and the United States” and quoting back to Waguli in which 4,000 Cherokee lives were lost on the Trail of Tears. As time passed it was clear the Cherokee Nation intentionally altered these declarations as it was done to them by the Whites, as seen