The Hermitage Debate: One Of Five Native Americans

The Hermitage Debate “The Cherokee Indians are one of the largest of five Native American tribes who settled in the American Southeast portion of the country. The tribe came from Iroquoian descent. They had originally been from the Great Lakes region of the country, but eventually settled closer to the east coast.” When thinking of Indians, most Americans jump to the stereotypical tee pee dwelling, buffalo hunting savages that are inferior to whites. This is not the case of the Cherokee. The Cherokee live in log house dwellings, and they farm more than they hunt. The Cherokee are very religious and spiritual beings, and they are very close to the land that the whites want them to give up. When the white settlers moved into the east coast, they drove the Cherokee out toward the interior Southeast, including north Georgia. After forcing the Natives out the settlers decided that they wanted that land too, which is the very reason we are meeting here today at Hermitage.
White settlers started to travel and move into Cherokee land at the start of the early
They told them to get rid of their traditional way of life and to instead pursue how to live, worship, and farm like Christian American citizens. Many Cherokees embraced this refinement program. The Cherokees went as far as establishing a court system, formally abandoning their previous law, the law of blood revenge, and adopting a republican government. Despite all of the changes that the Cherokees made to adapt to the white man, whites in Georgia and other southern states that bordered the Cherokee Nation refused to accept the Cherokee people as social equals and pleaded with their political representatives to take the Cherokees' land. President Jackson took the position of Indian removal as well. He used the excuse from the constitution saying that no nation can be created in an existing