The usage of the Cherokee syllabary throughout Diane Glancy’s novel Pushing the Bear is significant because it expresses the importance of maintaining Cherokee cultural ideals as protest towards the United States government. The nine-hundred mile‚ four month journey that the Southeastern Cherokee tribes were forced to make in the winter of 1838 threatened to wipe out an entire culture. On the journey‚ approximately four thousand people lost their lives. As this harrowing story is portrayed in the
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Critical Thinking Essay For thousands of years‚ Indians freely inhabited American land with peace and harmony. Then‚ all of that drastically changed when the white settlers began encroaching on their territory. Only the Five Civilized Tribes by the 1830 ’s proved to be the most suitable in this rapidly changing environment‚ but just when they started adopting the whites ’ ways of life‚ they were forced out of their land. Years have passed and Indians still only hold small pieces of territory. Although
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A great president is one who supports and keeps the country in order following the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. This president will have love for their country and the citizens in it‚ doing whatever it takes to protect the sovereign -- as long as the ends are worth the means taken to procure the safety. For president Andrew Jackson‚ the country was nearly his family. His devotion‚ though admirable‚ does not fully qualify him to be considered good in the eyes of future generations
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several failed treaty attempts‚ the Cherokee finally accepted that they would have to leave when soldiers arrived. The final negotiation was for the Cherokee to be able to move alone in the winter or 1838-39 and this would become known as the “Trail of Tears” because so many Cherokee died along the way. “Becoming Civilized” meant changing the ways that the Cherokee were accustomed to. Cherokee women would be more homemakers and the farming that they had done in the past would now fall to the men who
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Ross felt like that land belonged to his people. If you want to get technical he was speaking on the behalf of a tribe that made up a mere one-eighth of his ancestry. Not exactly a full blooded leader. He also was one of the main reason the “trail of tears” was as hostile and brutal as it was on his people. Its ironic‚ even as hard as Jackson pushed and deceived the Cherokee‚ the Cherokee people in turn pushed back‚ but past the point of being rational. Some of these individual efforts worsened the
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The generalization that‚ "The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790s than a change in that policy‚" is valid. Every since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. Many people wanted to contribute to this removal of the Cherokees and their society. Knox
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During the early to mid-1800s‚ the relationship between Americans and Native Americans became severely strained. Many Americans believed the western land was completely their own through the devastating concept of manifest destiny. Among the people carefully observing this issue were not just people who were supportive of forcefully taking Indian land‚ but also those who were opposed to it. This clashing conflict between the two groups intensified as their differences developed. Americans believed
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equality for all people regardless of their social class. Although he had such positive features‚ he had some negatives as well. Jackson removed Native Americans from their homeland by signing the Indian Removal Act of 1830‚ which created the “Trail of Tears‚” vetoed the National Bank (B.U.S)‚ and was pro-slavery. Although a common man himself‚ Jackson became successful as president. This was one of his biggest motives to support the common man‚ rather than the wealthy‚ whom he believed shouldn’t have
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Unfair treatment of the Native Americans- the Cherokee Nation Throughout the 19th century Native Americans were treated far less then respectful by the United States’ government. This was the time when the United States wanted to expand and grow rapidly as a land‚ and to achieve this goal‚ the Native Americans were “pushed” westward. It was a memorable and tricky time in the Natives’ history. The US government made many treatments with the Native Americans‚ making big changes on the Indian nation
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The Choctaw Tribe The Choctaw Indians were an important tribe‚ and the largest of the Muskogean tribes. The Choctaws have two stories about their origins in their traditional homeland in central Mississippi. One is that their ancestors came from west of the Mississippi River and settled in what is now the homeland. The other is that the tribe is descended from ancestors who were formed by a spirit from the damp earth of Nanih Waiyah‚ a large mound in northeastern Mississippi. Either way‚ the Choctaws
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