The Trail of Tears, was it unjust and inhumane? What happened to the Cherokee during that .
long and treacherous journey? They were brave and listened to the government, but they recieved .
unproductive land and lost their tribal land.
The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East coast was .
burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the .
government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. President Andrew Jackson .
passed the Indian Removal Policy in the year 1830. The Indian Removal Policy which called for the .
removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia area, also .
moved their capital Echota in Tennessee to the new capital call New Echota, Georgia and then eventually .
to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory was declared in the Act of Congress in 1830 with the Indian .
Removal Policy.
Elias Boudinot, Major Ridge, and John Ridge and there corps accepted the responsibility for the .
removal of one of the largest tribes in the Southeast that were the earliest to adapt to European ways. .
There was a war involving the Cherokee and the Chickasaw before the Indian Removal Policy .
was passed. The Cherokee were defeated by them which caused Chief Dragging Canoe to sign a treaty in .
1777 to split up their tribe and have the portion of the tribe in Chattanooga, Tennessee called the .
Chickamauga. .
Chief Doublehead of the Chickamauga, a branch of the Cherokee, signed a treaty to give away .
their lands. Tribal law says "Death to any Cherokee who proposed to sell or exchange tribal land." Chief .
Doublehead was later executed by Major Ridge. .
Again there was another treaty signed in December 29, 1835 which is called The Treaty of New .
Echota. It was signed by a party of 500 Cherokee out of about 17,000. Between 1785 and 1902 twenty-five .
treaties were signed with white men to give up their tribal lands.
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