Trail of Tears‚ and it led to many conflicts between the United States and the Native Americans. The Trail of Tears was not just a sudden action taken by the US government‚ there were multiple things that led up to the trail. In his 1831 ruling in Cherokee v. Georgia‚ Chief Justice John Marshall (who served on the Court from 1801 to 1835) upheld the Cherokee’s right to national sovereignty‚ however president Andrew Jackson (President of the US from 1829-1837) told the Georgia State Government that
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The USA and the Peoplehood Model The United States is made up of an enormously wide variety of diverse groups of people‚ each one acquiring its own distinct characteristics. In the spring of 2003‚ Tom Holm‚ Diane Pearson‚ and Ben Chavis refined Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas’ Peoplehood Model. These scholars introduced Thomas’ model in their scholarly journal titled “Peoplehood: A Model for Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies. This dynamic idea was created by Thomas to
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Even before the Louisiana Purchase‚ President Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the west‚ and to track water routes to help western expansion. The route that Lewis and Clark traveled west became an important route for pioneers‚ known as the Oregon Trail. Pioneers went west for many reasons‚ including economic opportunities and new ways of life. An abundance of land for farming and grazing‚ mining‚ forestry and for some‚ like the Mormons‚ an escape from religious persecution
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The United States government began a relationship with individual Native American nations. The government developed contracts that negotiated land agreements. The Native American nations gave up their homelands in exchange for protection provided by the United States government. A connection based on trust was established so that each party could fulfill their obligations. However‚ problems began when one group failed to fulfill their responsibilities. The problems that occurred in the past with
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The Indian Removal act was an act created by President Jackson. He had these poor people forced from their property because of their ethnicity. The Indian Removal Act was not justified because the U.S. Government (President Jackson)‚ lied to the Cherokee people about what they promised‚ President Jackson took away the Cherokee’s rights and the Cherokees had a lot of hardships while they walked the Trail of Tears. The Indian Removal Act was not fair for anyone and shouldn’t have been created in the
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Laws were set in place to force the Native Americans out of their Native lands to parts of the country that was not known to them. People from the Cherokee‚ Muscogee‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaw‚ and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint hundreds of miles to a reservation they knew nothing about in what is today‚ Oklahoma. This all began in the year of 1830 when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which
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prisoners scooping mush and tapping away at their chains. Nobody from a box in Alfred‚ Georgia‚ cared about the illness the Cherokee warned them about‚ so they stayed‚ all forty-six‚ resting‚ planning their next move. Paul D had no idea of what to do and knew less than anybody‚ it seemed. He heard his co-convicts talk knowledgeably of rivers and states‚ towns and territories. Heard Cherokee men describe the beginning of the world and its end. Listened to tales of other Buffalo men they knew — three of whom
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remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s was a continuation of previous political‚ social‚ and economic policies; however‚
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However‚ modern interpretations of Coatlicue have been depicting her once more as the powerful goddess she had once been. Because Mexicans have been reclaiming the narrative on their traditions‚ Coatlicue has been reimagined as an empowering figure‚ especially for females. For instance‚ in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa‚ snakes are once more equated with sacredness in defiance of Christian interpretations of snakes as being evil. Anzaldúa‚ a Chicana‚ says in her book
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which is also called the Indian removal act. The removal was resulted destruction to the five Indian tribes‚ such as Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ Creek‚ Seminole and Cherokee. The Cherokee was decided not to move‚ they have took Georgia to the court. The chief justice John Marshal was ruled the favor on behalf of the Cherokee‚ He said that Cherokee should not have to move out. Andrew Jackson persisted on his policy that‚ they will move them. Upon
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