The Cherokee Tribes

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Gold was founded, Georgia, 1828. Two years later in 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, if declared, the Cherokee Indians can either become a citizen and learn the American language and become Christians if the Indians didn’t agree they’d be removed from Georgia and head west to Oklahoma to build a new colonization. The Cherokee Tribe weren’t the only Indian tribe that were being declared this by the government, but four other tribes as well, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. They were known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. The journey to Oklahoma was rough. A fourth of the Cherokee tribe died on the way from cold, hunger and sickness. 1000 miles is how much the tribe walked and rode in a period of only 2 months.

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