In the early 1830’s, Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. All of this land was valuable and by the end of this decade, White Americans figured that out. A great portion of the white settlers needed to develop cotton and start their fortunes, and they would do nearly anything to do it on the Natives' property. Eventually, white Americans took the Natives land and sent them on their way to, “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult journey was known as the Trail of Tears. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation was written by John Ehle who is an American author born in Asheville, North Carolina. Before becoming an author, Ehle was …show more content…
a rifleman during World War 2 then later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received both a bachelors and masters degree in art. In 1957, his first book Move Over Mountain was published. He is the husband of actress Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man) and father of actress Jennifer Ehle (Pride and Prejudice). When it comes to writing a book about a topic in history, it’s important that for the most part, everything in the story accurately portrays the event and based on comments about Ehle’s work, it’s clear that his books are reliable for a paper like this. The Treaty of New Echota was signed on 1835 to cede Native land to the U.S.
in exchange for reimbursement, it was negotiated by a Cherokee leader, John Ridge, who claimed to represent the Cherokee Nation when really, he spoke for only a small portion of the group. This book begins with the conception of John Ridge, it incorporates everything that the Cherokees believed in and what Ridge had to do in his initiation to manhood. At this time, the white’s already have a correspondence with the Natives, as one of their forbears is white. Eventually, the American Revolutionary War happens and Major Ridge (John’s father) and his family are driven into the madness. Soon after the war has ended, the only thing that whites are focused on is obtaining good land. A discovery of gold in Georgia leads the white people to the Natives land. After finding that all this land meets their needs, they figure that the Indians are wasting it and come up with a plan to acquire it all. In the meantime, Major Ridge is living his life with his children, he has become a wealthy plantation owner as well as a leader of the Cherokee Nation. His son John becomes an attorney, and his nephew Elias Boudinot becomes the first editor of the Cherokee Newspaper. Eventually, Major Ridge and his family are the first to discover that plans have been made to remove all Natives off their land and send them to the other side of the Mississippi
River.
In the essay, “The Trail of Tears” by author Dee Brown explains that the Cherokees isn’t Native Americans that evaporate effectively from their tribal land, but the enormous measure of sympathy supported on their side that was abnormal. The Cherokees process towards culture also the treachery of both states and incorporated governments of the declaration and promises that contrived to the Cherokee nation. Dee Brown wraps up that the Cherokees had lost Kentucky and Tennessee, but a man who once consider their buddy named Andrew Jackson had begged the Cherokees to move to Mississippi but the bad part is the Indians and white settlers never get along together even if the government wanted to take care of them from harassment it shall be incapable to do that. The Cherokee families moved to the West, but the tribes were together and denied to give up more land but Jackson was running for President if the Georgians elects him as President he agreed that he should give his own support to open up the Cherokee lands for establishment.
The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians was written by Anthony F.C. Wallace. In his book, the main argument was how Andrew Jackson had a direct affect on the mistreatment and removal of the native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory. It was a trail of blood, a trail of death, but ultimately it was known as the "Trail of Tears".
Andrew Jackson signed the indian removal act in 1830. This act allowed him to make treaties with the natives and steal their lands. The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of more than 15,000 cherokee Indians. The white men/people gave the natives 2 options: 1. Leave or 2. Stay and Assimilate (learn our culture). The natives couldn’t have their own government. There were 5 civilized tribes including the cherokees. They learned english and went to american schools and when the cherokees went to court they won.
The Chickasaw people made of decently well compared to some of the other Native American tribes that were moved to the West. They had foresight into what was going to take place and they were able to negotiate the sale of their land off for decent sums of money and they actually could afford to pay for the removal to areas west of the Mississippi. Even with saying that many Chickasaw Natives died on the perilous exodus that was their Trail of Tears. The Chickasaw quickly ran into troubles and death as their journey progressed as even having sums of money cannot protect you from the hardships of the land and travel. They did however control when they departed for the areas in the West though due to their possession of money. They chose
The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the execution of the Treaty of New Echota (1835), an “agreement” signed under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). With the expansion of the American population, the discovery of gold in Georgia, and the need for even more land for American results in the push to move the Natives who were “in the way”. So with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Congress acted to remove Natives on the east coast of the United States to land west of the Mississippi River, something in which was never embraced or approved by them (The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears). Many state governments, such as Georgia, did not want Native-owned land within their boundaries, while the Natives did not want to move. However, under the Removal Act, the United States Congress gave then-President Andrew Jackson the authority to negotiate removal treaties.
The Trail of Tears are a series of trails that Andrew Jackson used when he put the Indian Removal Act in 1838. The Trail of Tears is circled around death and sorrow. Every one out of four Indians died on the trips away from their home and to place they were unfamiliar of. All trail ended in Oklahoma and today it is marked with a statue of an Indian on a horse.
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle is all about the events and the people that were involved in the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the removal of the whole Cherokee Nation to “Indian Territory” in which they would never “bother” whites again. Ehle puts the main focus on a particular group in order to gain the readers attention more. I think that he did this on purpose, because I definitely think that I was more sympathetic towards this group of people than I would have been if it was a bunch of random people through out the novel.
Unconcerned about the legitimacy of their actions, European colonisers took lands unjustifiably from indigenous people and put original inhabitants who had lived on the land for centuries in misery. The United States also shared similarities in dealing with native people like its distant friends in Europe. Besides the cession of vast lands, the federal government of the United States showed no pity, nor repentance for the poor Cherokee people. Theda Perdue, the author of “Cherokee Women and Trail of Tears,” unfolds the scroll of history of Cherokee nation’s resistance against the United States by analyzing the character of women in the society, criticizes that American government traumatized Cherokee nation and devastated the social order of
Ellis, Jerry. Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. New
Gloria Jahoda, the author of The Trail of Tears talks about how Indian populations dropped and how white people are the ones responsible for the drop of their population. The white men are not responsible for the drop of the Indian population. Johoda makes all Indians sound like defenseless children. Johoda is making excuses for Indians because Indians let the white man take over their lives and life style.
I walked into the room on New Year’s Day and felt a sudden twinge of fear. My eyes already hurt from the tears I had shed and those tears would not stop even then the last viewing before we had to leave. She lay quietly on the bed with her face as void of emotion as a sheet of paper without the writing. Slowly, I approached the cold lifeless form that was once my mother and gave her a goodbye kiss.
This “john Ehle” book was published in 1988, and talked about the story of soldiers arriving at the homes of Cherokee people in the Southeast and forcing them to walk a couple of hundreds of miles westward. Walking beat footed in the tardy fall and winter with mere clothings and supplies, many died of hunger, disease, exposure, and lassitude along the “Trail of Tears”. the author withal verbalized about the history of European-American encroachment on the five affected tribes in the Southeast, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, giving special attention to the actions and influence of Andrew Jackson. The book organizes a good deal of historical information into a cogent presentation of the events and issues leading to the
The history regarding the treatment and abuse of the Cherokee people during the 19th century is a well researched topic of discussion. The Trail of Tears is known as the forced movement of the Cherokee people out of their homeland into what is present day Oklahoma. It was named The Trail of Tears due to the disastrous effect it had on the Cherokee people and many died of starvation along the journey. After the Civil War the Cherokee people faced the repercussions of the Dawes Act of 1887, which forced allotment of Indian territory and forced assimilation. Considering the Cherokee Women in Crisis, Carolyn Johnston focuses on the changing gender roles of Cherokee women and how their suffering differed from the men. Johnston limits the areas of
Before the beginning of the Trail of Tears in 1838, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived across the East coast of the US. Native Americans inhabited millions of acres of land across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. By the time White Europeans encountered Native Americans, they had already developed a complex society. This society was built on intricate languages, alphabets, number systems, and other numerous means of communication. However, During and after the trail of tears it was a widely and strongly implicated myth that Native Americans were mentally inept, and virtually incapable of creating such a society. False propaganda was heavily used against Native Americans. Native Americans were labeled
Summary: The image depicted above shows a group of cheerleaders holding up a sign with the words “Hey Indians Get Ready for A Trail of TEARS Part 2.” In the top right hand corner of the sign, a drawing of a single blue eye, with a red tear, is visible. The sign is at the forefront of the photo and in the background a marching band is visible. The name “Indians” is in reference to the opposing team. The photo shows both the cheerleaders and the marching band on a football field.