Cherokee Indians 2

Cherokee Indians 2

Cherokee Indians There was over ten million plus Native Americans in the world when the first non Native Americans arrived but this would all change within the next 250 to 300 years when over three quarters of our population would be wiped out because of the warfare that was imported by the white man, famine or diseases would claim our lives. The Cherokee Indians entered into Georgia back in the 1400’s from the south. Back in the 1500’s the Cherokee Indians remained one of the largest tribes in the United States. We didn’t migrate from anywhere because we the Native Americans were the first people in North America. This is what each of us need to learn about what happened, how it happened, and so it never happens again when it comes down to the Cherokee Indians and the Trail Of Tears. There were a few newly established states in the south that forced us the Southwestern Indians to move and migrate far to the west. The white mans population had out numbered the Indians in South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia so the Indians wasdenied our domains. The states government demanded the tribesmen to uproot their families and travel far away from the south lands leaving their land and homes behind. In the late 1700’s we the Cherokee Indians had relations with the U.S. Government and the state of Georgia where they gave us the recognition as a nation with our own customs and laws. Then later on some of us sought refuge from the white man interference by moving to northwestern Arkansas between the two rivers. During the first two decades of the 1800’s more and more of the land cessions caused the Cherokee’s population to increase in Arkansas. In 1819 the Cherokee Indians decided that we were not going to cede our land and the traditional homelands and notify the federal government. This issue of the state’s rights with our people was further complicated and with this situation prolonging between the federal government and Georgia. Georgia was one of the last...

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