The Congress eventually followed suit by enacting the Indian Removal Act which was greeted by the newly elected President Andrew Jackson. Americans should feel no regret for the disappearance of Indians from the face of the earth, Jackson argued. "Philanthropy could not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers," he said to Congress in his State of the Union Address. "hat good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic" (Perdue & Green 120).
Many Anglo-Americans opposed the Indian Removal Act. Missionaries especially were appalled at the plan to evict the Cherokee Indians by force. A Baptist Reverend, writing under the pseudonym of "illiam Penn," argued that the United States had no right to use force and evict the Cherokee of their ancestral lands. He cited Americans laws and…...

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Works Cited

Perdue, Theda & Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Print.

For examples, "In Oklahoma the Cherokee live both on and off the reservation scattered in urban centers and in isolated rural regions." (Cherokee)
This also refers to the influence of contemporary industrial society, which has often been referred to as a central cause for the cultural breakdown of religious traditions in the culture. One also has to bear in mind political events and factors in the 1800s, such as the principle of "discovery," according to which "...the Cherokee Nation (and, by implication, all Indian nations) was not fully sovereign, but "may, perhaps," be deemed a "domestic dependent nation." (Newcomb) These factors resulted in a decline of religious culture with many ceremonies and practices becoming."..no more than artistic conventions" (Cherokee Religion). This also affected the culture in various ways - for example in the loss of the prevalence of their native language.

Acculturation led to a division in the societal and cultural…...

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Works Cited

Cherokee. May 11, 2008. http://www.nativeamericans.com/Cherokee.htm

Cherokee Religion. May 11, 2008. www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=804330http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/nam/cherok.html

Filler, Louis, and Allen Guttmann, eds. The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor?. Lexington, MA D.C. Heath, 1962. Questia. 13 May 2008  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=804330 .

A www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5018073577

Dieri, Bevenda, Cherokee structures of religious belief and touch upon tribal beliefs about god and gods, key myths and rituals
The Dieri, an aboriginal tribe of Australia, the Oklahoma tribe of the Cherokee, and the Bevenda may all be subsumed under the common category of 'native people,' when comparing such indigenous faiths with the common faith of those who colonized these individuals, namely white Christians. However, upon closer examination of the religions practices of these groups, there emerge equally striking differences between one another that belay such easy elision under the term 'native.'

The Cherokee, first and foremost, were shamanistic in their ways of religious belief and practice. Although, to some outside observers, the Cherokee religion and medicine seemed primarily reliant upon herbs for medicinal treatment and as an efficacious way of accessing the spiritual realm, in fact these herbs were not viewed as inherently sacred in and of themselves. They…...

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Works Cited

Cherokee Religion." Citied Mooney, 1995, pp.239-240. Accessed on January 14, 2003 at http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/nam/cherok.html.

Dreamtime.' Accessed on January 14, 2003 at  http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dreamtime 

Noss, David S. A History Of World's Religions. 10th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 1999

Cherokee Religion," citing Mooney: 1995 p.420, http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/nam/cherok.html.

The Trail of Tears, a U.S. Army-guided forcible removal of the native Americans from the southeast to west of the Mississippi, began in 1838, and thousands of Cherokee were displaced; thousands died along the way.
The realities of these actions was a much different thing than the ideals of the United States. A nation that was built with tolerance and freedom as its precepts was not only forcibly expelling inhabitants from land they had settled, but was attempting to fundamentally change the culture of the Cherokee nation. Instead of protecting a vulnerable minority, as the original settlers of the U.S. had been in England, the government exploited the minority of Cherokee, taking their land, mining its gold, and removing the Cherokee culture from their landscape. This behavior was and is incompatible with the U.S. ideals of morality and justice; the manner in which the Cherokee were treated goes against the…...

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Zinn, 138. Quoting Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey.

Zinn, 147.

Zinn, Howard. The People Speak: American Voices, New York: Harper Collins, 2004, p. 10

What Stuart is really trying to illustrate in this text, then, is the complete impossibility of the situation he was confronted with. In a way, this reflects the total underestimation of many different facets of the situation by the British government. They sent only a mid- or even low-ranking official to talk to the Native Americans, but the situation demanded a much larger (though likely still useless) delegation. The opening of this piece of text describes not only the large number of tribes and individual Native Americans present, but also carries the Native American's descriptions of the vast quantities of settlers and forts that are encroaching on their land (Stuart, 202). The problem is a very large one, yet for some reason the British seem too feel that the Native Americans should be easy to diplomatically contain -- all Stuart has to do is make a suggestion or two.

The falsity…...

It was on May 4, 1730 that Cumming and the seven Cherokee began their trip to England, where they arrived on June 5. They were all headquartered in the house of James Crowe. Cuming's correspondence during this period is quite rich and we will mention some of it further below.

The meeting with King George II occurred on July 18, 1730 and it is an excellent and somewhat amusing sample of the cultural differences between the two people. Of course, the Cherokees were not used to the European ceremonial in Court, although Cuming had previously imposed some of it onto them. However, they gracefully bowed before the King, a gesture that was clearly seen as their submission recognition, although it may have been a gesture of imitation, with no real significance for them (as previously).

As McRae suggests, "the Cherokees were disappointed not to have been offered any food during the ceremony…...

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Bibliography

1. Newsome, Matthew Allan. Alexander Cuming. An examination of contemporary documents. 1998. On the Internet at  http://albanach.org/cuming.html 

2. Royal Society. On the Internet at http://www.fact-index.com/r/ro/royal_society.html

3. Williams, Samuel Cole. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800. Johnson City, Tennessee; Watauga Press, 1928, 122-129, 138-141.

4. Articles on Friendship and Commerce proposed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, to the Deputies of the Cherokee Nation in South Carolina, by his Majesty's Order, on Monday, Sept. 7, 1730

Introduction
The Cherokee Tribe in North Carolina is part of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally-recognized independent Native American Cherokee tribe whose home base is in Cherokee, North Carolina, south of the Smoky Mountains. The Eastern Band is comprised of the descendants of the approximately 800 Cherokee who did not join the Trail of Tears—the forced migration of the Native American nations from the Southern U.S. region to the western U.S. region designated by the U.S. government as Indian Territory following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This relatively small number of Cherokee (compared to the 16,000 Cherokee who were relocated) avoided relocation by living on privately owned land, as opposed to communal land. For example, some 400 Cherokee lived on acreage owned by William Holland Thomas in the Smoky Mountains. Thomas had been taken in by the Cherokee in his youth and now returned the favor in his…...

John Ross and JacksonThe two lettersone from Chief John Ross to the US governmentthe other from President Andrew Jackson to the Cherokeeshow two sides of a terrible battle in the 19th century. On the one hand is the plight of the Cherokee, who see themselves being forced off their land in the South to go to the West. On the other hand is the argument of Jackson that the Cherokee have not bought the land and have no means of securing it for themselves, that the US has set aside funds for them and promised schools for them in the Westand so they must go. Chief John Rosss letter shows how the Cherokee just wanted to have the same kind of liberty that the Americans promoted in their Declaration.[footnoteRef:2] Jacksons letter shows how there is no thought of liberty for the Cherokee but rather an intense desire to move them…...

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BibliographyAndrew Jackson Letter to the Cherokee.“Our Hearts are Sickened”: Letter from Chief John Ross of the Cherokee, Georgia, 1836.

Racial Capitalism and the Indian Removal ActIntroductionAndrew Jacksons Second Annual Message was delivered in 1830 and served as justification, in his eyes, for the removal of the Indians from white settlements in the South.[footnoteRef:2] The idea behind the Indian Removal Act was that it would establish peace by giving the Native Americans their own territory; the problem was that territory was well on the side of the continent. Essentially, it was an act of racial capitalism, in which the US government justified its actions by arguing that it was for the victims own good. The Native Americans were simply in the way of developments that the states and federal government wanted to push throughwhich means they were in the way of capitalistic enterprise. The result of the Indian Removal Act was the Trail of Tears. And while Jackson was responsible for justifying the removal, the idea was not really his…...

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BibliographyART. VI.--Speeches on the Indian Bill; viz.--Of Messrs. The North American Review (1821-1940); Oct 1830; VOL. XXXI., No. LXIX.; American Periodicals Series Online pg. 396Black Hawk, Autobiography, 113. Davy, “On the removal of the Cherokees, 1834,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/spotlight-primary-source/davy-crockett-removal-cherokees-1834Coolidge, Calvin. 1925 speech.  https://crackerpilgrim.com/2016/01/11/on-the-chief-business-of-america/ Ehle, John. Trail of tears: The rise and fall of the Cherokee Nation. Anchor, 2011.Jackson, Andrew. “Second Annual Message,” 1830.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3437t.html Kutsche, Paul. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"The Tsali legend: culture heroes and historiography.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Ethnohistory 10, no. 4 (1963): 329-357. O’Sullivan, John. “Annexation.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol. 17, no. 1 (July-August 1845): 5-10.Perdue, Theda. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Chapter 2 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Both White and Red\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\". Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South. The University of Georgia Press, 2003. Sevier, John. Letter to the Cherokee. DPLA.  https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cherokee-removal-and-the-trail-of-tears/sources/1500http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com.ezpprod1.hul.harvard.edu/ibio/ibio.result.epages.aspx?code=S10018026D000002.htmCrockett,

I do not use a pattern to design these sacred baskets. My grandmother and my mother taught me the skills to construct them, how to doubleweave a flexible basket-within-a-basket with a single common rim, for example, but the actual design comes from listening to the cane itself. It speaks to me as it moves through my hands. It tells me what it wants to be, how it wants to be shaped, what is will be used for.

It is not the first time this has happened. Stands of cane all around us have been destroyed. The white settlers do not understand Cherokee ways, and they think women's work is unimportant. I overheard one say not long ago to another white man that Cherokee "squaws" are "beasts of burden" because we do the farming work. I could tell by his tone of voice he was ridiculing us. The white settlers don't understand…...

This dance was very powerful as it did scare the European people. They did not fully understand the reason behind the dance and the religion, but they were very clear as to what the apocalypse was and they wondered if the Indians were somehow summoning the end of the world. Not soon after this Ghost dance caused such a commotion, an Indian by the name of Handsome Lake who was a leader for the Seneca tribe brought a new message to the Iroquois people. His message was to end the drinking. The Iroquois people had began to drink a lot of alcohol that was often offered to them from the European people during the fur trade. Handsome Lake believed that many of the problems that the Iroquois people faced was related to the alcohol. Many of the Indian people were drunk when they were trying to handle problems of…...

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WORKS CITED

Kehoe, Alice Beck. North American Indian Tribes, Chapter 5. 1992 Prentice Hall.

Biolsi, Thomas and Zimmerman, Larry. Indians and Anthropologists, Chapter 9. 1997 Prentice Hall.

Iroquois Website. Retrieved December 19, 2009 from http://www.iroquois.net/.

There were a lot of white people around, and many of them were angry that the blacks had been freed. Some of them were actually hostile toward the blacks and their newfound freedom, so the blacks learned quickly that they had to be careful. They needed to settle a little bit away from the hostile whites and do their best not to make waves or cause trouble, in the hopes that they might one day be accepted (Reconstruction, 2002).
During the first few years after the Emancipation Proclamation and the subsequent freedom of all blacks in the United States, many blacks began working very hard to educate themselves. In there minds, education meant the ability to negotiate with whites over land, earn a fair wage to pay for it, and take care of their families. lack families were often large, so many of the members could work to help support…...

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Black Farming and History. 2002. Homecoming.  http://www.itvs.org/homecoming/history1.html .

Carroll J. 1998. Organizational learning activities in high-hazard industries. Journal of Management Studies, 35: 699-717

Reconstruction and its aftermath. 2002. African-American Odyssey.  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html .

VandeCreek, Drew E., Ph.D. 2000. Frontier Settlement. Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.  http://Lincoln.lib.niu.edu/frontier.html .

Antebellum Period: Different Perspectives
Woman in a White Slaveholding Family in Virginia

My name is Matilda Baldwin originally of the Richmond Portmans that being my maiden name. I was born and raised outside of Richmond on my poppy's tobacco plantation. My husband's land is not very far away. I spend most of my summer afternoons with Mama. We sit fanning ourselves sipping mint-iced teas wondering if my baby sister will have a successful introduction into Richmond Society. Three years prior, my own debutante ball was glorious. It was where I met Robert Baldwin and many other suitors. He was clearly smitten with me from the start for the next day he asked Poppy for my hand in marriage. My father appreciates fine things in life; a good hand rolled cigar, two fingers of French Brandy and a man who knows what he wants but is not afraid of getting it. Besides Robert…...

Unlike the culture of my interviewee, African-American isn't really broken into subgroups. I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, which is very close to the Canadian Border and the "U.S. Peace Bridge." I grew up speaking English, and it is the only language I speak.

My religion is not typical of most African-Americans, who tend to be Baptist, Methodist, or Lutheran. I was raised as a Catholic and still practice that religion today. I'm not the only African-American I know who is Catholic, but it's not common in my subculture.

Like my interviewee, I think the media is generally doing a good job of representing African-Americans in the media. However, I still see instances when African-Americans seem to be portrayed as being ruthless and slovenly, which in my opinion makes all African-Americans appear to be the same way (association assimilation).

I believe that all cultures have something that makes them unique…...

American History
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn," wrote Christopher Columbus to the king and queen of Spain following his third voyage to the Americas in 1498 (rinkley 1). ut even after visiting the New World three times he still had no idea what he had truly started, and he certainly saw no sign that he had began a new era in history. Yet, the history of European involvement in America had begun. Over the next several decades Spanish conquistadores made more and more voyages to the New World, and the royal treasuries grew. Settlements were established and the other European powers, seeing their opportunity, soon made efforts to establish colonies of their own.

In the midst of all of this, the native inhabitants were removed from their lands and sometimes massacred…...

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Brinkley, Douglas. American Heritage: History of the United States. New York: Viking, 1998.

Davis, Kenneth. American History. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.

Gutman, Bill and Anne Wertheim. The Look-It-Up Book of the 50 States. New York: Random House, 2002.

Turner, Frederick. The Frontier in American History. New York: Dover Publications, 1996.

The Cherokee Removal, also known as the Trail of Tears, was a dark chapter in American history that had far-reaching consequences for Native American tribes, particularly the Cherokee people. The removal of the Cherokee from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, the destruction of communities, and the displacement of a proud and resilient people. The impact of this forced relocation was profound and had lasting effects on the future of Native American tribes across the country.

One of the most significant ways in which the Cherokee Removal shaped the future....

In conclusion, the Cherokee Removal had a profound and lasting impact on the future of Native American tribes. The forced relocation to the Indian Territory significantly disrupted Cherokee society, leading to the loss of land, cultural practices, and traditional ways of life. The removal also set a precedent for the federal government's treatment of Native American tribes, establishing a pattern of coercion, assimilation, and displacement. The legacy of the Cherokee Removal continues to shape the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States, highlighting the complex and often tragic history of Native American rights and sovereignty. It serves as....

1. In Victor Martinez's novel, "Grandfather's Journey," Little Tree, a young Cherokee boy, is sent to live with his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains. During his time with them, he learns valuable life lessons that shape his understanding of the world and his place in it. These lessons, rooted in the wisdom of his grandparents and the traditions of his ancestors, provide a foundation for his personal and spiritual growth.

2. One of the most important lessons Little Tree learns is the importance of respecting and honoring the natural world. His grandparents teach him to see the interconnectedness of all living....