Effects Of The Trail Of Tears

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, whom do we think of? Of course, Christopher Columbus comes to mind. Yet, the first people to step on land were the native people. The native people were the first people to set foot on this soil, long before any white person. Regrettably, they were brutally attack, and removed from their homes. This how the Trails of Tears began. This paper will discuss the effects of The Trail of Tears had on the Indians. There were five tribes that were called “The Civilized Tribes”. The Five Civilized tribe were a group of native people that consist of: The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole they all hold great significance. The Cherokee Indians were the largest of the five tribes. They are unique group of people that had a great understanding between sex. The men were the chiefs; they were in charge of hunting, war and peacekeeping and they made all the political decisions for the tribe. The women were the landowners; that were in charge of farming, property and social decision for the clans. Both genders took part in storytelling, artwork, music, and traditional medicine. For clothing, the men wore breechcloths and leggings, and the women wore wraparound skirts and poncho-style blouses made out of woven fiber or deerskin.

Historian Richard White put it the best when he said ““The Cherokee are probably the most tragic instance of what could have succeeded in American Indian policy and didn’t. All these things that Americans would proudly see as the hallmarks of civilization are going to the west by Indian people. They do everything they were asked to do except one thing. What the Cherokees ultimately are, they may be Christian, they may be literate, they may have a government like ours, but ultimately they are Indian. And in the end, being Indian is what kills