The Cherokee Tribe

             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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