Roughly a thousand years before the Europeans came to North America, the Cherokees occupied a large portion of present day states Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama. Cherokees before their regular contact with Europeans generally were a sedentary society that was matrilineal, meaning that their property and position passed from generation to generation through the mother's side of the family. Each Cherokee town theoretically was autonomous, having no leaders, chiefs, or European parlance who ruled over all the towns. Conflict raised when Cherokees inevitably became swept up in European wars along with the new U.S. government pursuing a policy to attempt to "civilize" the Indians. Europeans wanted the removal of treaty signed land designated to the Indians. To make such action happen, Europeans passed laws, acts, and treaties to fight their way into winning the land from the Indians. Debates pro removal and anti removal came from both Europeans and Cherokees. Though In spring of 1838, General Winfield Scott and several units of the U.S. army deployed to the Southeast to collect the Cherokees land and remove them to lands west of the Mississippi river. Undoubtedly starting the first of thirteen Cherokee parties on their forced march to the West, known as the Trail of Tears.
While most whites promoted arguments to have the Cherokee removed, some whites gave alternatives for the Indians to consider. In 1791, the new American nation signed a treaty with the Cherokees enforced their goal of leading them to a "greater degree of civilization". For their part, some cherokee leaders recognized that less land and fewer deer demanded major changes in their way of life, and they accepted "civilization". The main way that they achieved this was for Cherokee men to give up hunting and become farmers, which had been the traditional role of woman.
The Cherokee followed the migrating animals in search of better land. ... Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee Indians, wanted to unite all the tribes in the East to protect their land. ... In 1832 The Indian Land Lottery was passed, people who won got a part of Cherokee land. ... Now a remaining 12,000 Cherokees had to make the trip, by land. ... The removal of the Cherokees didn't move all the Cherokee out of their land. ...
From the Colonial and Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians. ... The administrations during the 1790's to the 1830's had continually acquired land from the Cherokee Indians. ... Henry Knox wanted to destroy the Cherokee tribes in order to gain land for the United States, although he questions the morality of whether to acquire the Cherokee land, his conclusion forebodes the appropriation. ... Again, The United States is violating the autonomy of the Cherokee Indian land and is following standard of the past plans toward the...
Eventually Indian removal entered a new stage, especially with the Cherokee nation, the most dramatic example of the Indian policy of the U.S. government and its motivations. ... The many white citizens of Georgia believed that the Cherokees had the right to occupy the land, not to own it. ... After the war of 1812, the land hungry white setelers demanded Indian lands, surrounding their territory in the South and MidWest. ... But how ample would of this barely unexplored land be at the time? ... The U.S. agreed that the land herein guaranteed to the Cherokees shall never be included wit...
From the Colonial and Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians. ... The administrations during through 1790's to the 1830's had gradually acquired more and more land from the Cherokee Indians. ... Again, the United States is expanding upon Cherokee land, which Monroe believes that will benefit the Indians and benefit the Americans. ... Again, The United States is violating the sovereignty of the Cherokee Indian land and is following precedent of the past policies toward the disregard of Indian Lands. ... The state...
This obstacle were the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole and, Cherokee nations that called the land their home. The white settlers did not care who had the land or who was living on the land; they believed that the Indian nations were in the way of progress. ... However, whites treated Indians unequal and did not believe that they had the right to land permanently. ... Perdue points out in her book that the Cherokee tribes were strengthening their hold on the land. ... This new treaty required the Cherokee Nation to turn over its national lands for a very small part of land that the United S...
Most non-full bloods claiming to be Indian are Cherokee. ... The 18,000 Indians had their own newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix, published in by English and Cherokee. ... This expansion of land came with a fright. The tribe experienced several battles with tribes like the Osage, who had holds on the land near the Cherokee Reservation. ... The Eastern Indians lead by their Principal Chief John Ross the Cherokees worked with the government for decades to give the Cherokees the monies the deserved for previous land (Wright, 1954). ...
The Cherokee Indians is one of the largest groups of Native American people. ... In 1839, the Cherokee Indians with the help of Kickapoo and Shawanee Indians fought for their lands against the white settlers of northeast Texas. ... In order to secure Cherokee aid, Mexican officials proposed giving the Cherokees the long-sought title to their land, but the Indians lacked the money and legal expertise to complete the complicated procedure. ... Seeing this situation the Cherokee decided to fight for their land. ... The Cherokee nation was treated very unfairly when it came to their land rights in...
Andrew Jackson's decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River was a reformulation because it continued Washington's, Monroe's, and Jefferson's administration to acquire Indian land. The administrations during the 1790's to the 1830's had gradually acquired more and more land from the Cherokee Indians. ... From the Colonial and Confederations treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians. ... John Marshall made a statement saying that the territorial boundaries and land of the Cherokee is sove...
A new law was passed that said Cherokees would be under state law instead of federal law. ... They had no way to protect themselves or their land with this change. They tried to fight this change but the Indians were told they could not sue because they were not a nation outside the United States so the Cherokees lost their case. ... By 1838 the Creeks and the Cherokees became the last tribes in the southeast to be forced off their land, mostly by the military and held the Indians at gunpoint. ... I feel now that Americans stole the Indians land from them. ...
