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| By 1840 all the Eastern Tribes were over come,destroyed utterly,or Forceably moved to Indian territory,West Of the Mississippi.
The discovery of the New World by European Exsplorers caused endless problems for American Indians,who's homelands were gradually taken away from them and who's cultures were dramatically altered,and in some cases destroyed,by invasion The First contact between Southeastern American Indians and Europeans was the expedition of Hernando de Soto in 1540.Desoto took captives for use for slave labor,while others were being abused because the Europeans deemed them savages.Epidemic deases brought by Europeans spread through the Indian Villages,Destroying a large number of Native Populations Over the next 2 Centuries,more and more White Settlers Arrived,and the Native Cultures responded to pressure to adopt the foreign ways,leading to deterioration of their own Culture.During the colonial period Indian tribes often became emboiled in European Colonial Wars.If they were on the loosing side,they frequently had parts of their homelands. After the Americans Revolution the Indians,faced another set of problems.Even though it took time for the new Government to establish a policy for dealing with Indians,the justification had been set during the colonial period.The insatiable desire of the White Settlers for the lands occuppied by the Indian People led to the rules to be foolowed of a general policy of removing the unwanted that moved in. The Political leaders including President Thomas Jefferson,believed that the Indians should be civilized,which ment converting them to Christianity and Turning them into Farmers.Many other whites agreed,and missionaires were sent among the Tribes.But when transformation did not happen quickly enoungh views changed about the Indian peoples ability to absorb in the White Culture "We ,the great mass of people think only of the Love we have for Our Land for....we do love the land where we were brought up.We will never let our Hold to this Land Go....To let it go it would be like throwing away...(Our )Mother that gave ....(Us)birth ."(Letter from Aitooweyah,to John Ross,Principal Chief of The Cherokees.) This is Why,I despise the Whites,Because of the greed,and selfishness ,and selfcenteredness.Id Be proud to say Im anything BUT white. They are the Ones who are Animals in the way they treated other Colors. The REAL WORLD,is OUR WORLD, yet You to blind to see amoungst your Toys.Yet We Still Don't Hear Ever the truth Coming From a White person!But Nothing but a bunch of Lie's.They are Cowards to speak the truth! "Lookingthruwolfseyes" They Are Too Greedy to be Fair!To Selfish To Give!Too monipulative to Believe in. They call themselves Christians.They have along way to go to become that! I listen to nothing but Garbage amougst there tongues,to Never Be Stupid enough to Ever Trust them.I found True Happiness In The Red Path.I do Not want to be converted in such Plastic ways,but to be real in all aspects.To speak the truth,and to speak in how it is.Yet ,Im sad for you not knowing what Life is really all about! National policy to move Indians West of the Mississippi developed after the Louisiana Territory was purchased from the French in 1803.Whites moving onto these lands pressed the United States Government to do something about the Indian Presence.In 1825 the U.S. Government formally adopted a removal policy,which was carried out extensively in the 1830's by President Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.The result was particularly overwelming for the Indians of the southern United States.primarily the Cherokee,Chickasaws,Choctaws,Creeks,and Seminols-who were finally removed hundreds of milesto a new home. Perhaps the most culturally distroying episode of this era is that concerning the removal of the Cherokee Indians,who called themselves(Italicized-Ani Yun wiya)Traditionally the Cherokees had lived in villages in the southern Appalachians present day Virginia,West Virginia,Kentucky,Tennessee,western North Carolina,and Southern Carolina,Northern Georgia,and Northeastern Alabama.Here in a Land of Valleys.Ridges,Mountains,And streams,They developed a culture based on farming,hunting,and fishing. The Cherokees took on some of the ways of the white society.They built European-style homes and farmsteads,laid out European-style fields and farms,developed a written language,established a newspaper,and wrote a constitution.But they found that they were not guarenteed equal protection under the law and that they could not pervent whites from seizing their lands.They were driven from their homes,herded into internment camps,and moved by force to a strange land. Cherokee Relations with the U.S.Government State Rights Issue The Cherokee situation was further complicated by the issue of state's rights and prolonged dispute between Georgia and the federal government.In 1802 Georgia was the last of the original colonies to cede its western lands to the federal government.In doing so ,Georgia expected all titles to the land heldby Indians to be extinquished.However,that did not happen,and the Principle People continued to Occupy their ancestral homelands,which had been guarenteed to them by treaty. Beginning in 1791 a series of treaties between the U.S. and the Cherokees living in Georgia gave recognition to the Cherokeea as a Nation with their own laws and customsNevertheless,treaties and agreements gradually whittled away at this land base,and in the late 1700's some Cherokees sought refuge from white interferance by moving to the northwestern Arkanas between the White and Arkansas rivers.As more and moreland cessions were forced on the Cherokee during the first two decades of the 1800's.The number moving to Arkansas increased.Then in 1819 the Cherokee National council notified the federal government that it would no longer cede land,thus hardening their resolve to remain on their dispute traditional homelands. There was 10 Million Native American Indians on this Continent,When the first Non Indians Arrived.Over the Next 300 years ,90% of all Native Americans were murdere,Deases,Famine,or Warfare imported by the Whites. |
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