Trail Of Tears
A hundred and fifty years after the Cherokee were forced from the southern Appalachians to Oklahoma; one man of Cherokee descent revisited the old capital of New Echota. He wrote “ My whole body chills as I face once again the fact that an entire nation was moved to another part of the country like wild horses to the dog food company.” The Cherokee Indians were not the only native Americans to be forced west of the Mississippi by the removal act. (Lang 22) tribes from Florida to the Great Lakes were also moved. (Khun 13) You rarely hear of the other tribes because the suffering of the Cherokees seems to overshadow it all. In the early 1800’s Cherokee life was fairly simple. They were a hard working group of people who often lived together in small communities. They were a spiritual and religious people who believed the were the “principle people. (Khun 22) This belief was not shared by the white race who looked down upon them. The Cherokee’s interaction with the whites was limited to tra
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Florida Lakes, January March, Winfield Scott, Mississippi Ohio, North Carolina, Oklahoma Cherokee, Indiana Lang, John Ross, Trail Tears, Indians January, treaty echota, lang 53, cherokees stockades, scott-green 62, trail tears, moved khun, lang 42, paid land,
Approximate Word count = 689
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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