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Writing plan on the Trail of Tears...

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The Cherokee “Trail of Tears” is a time of inequality and unjust towards the Native Indian’s. Not only the Cherokee but many other tribes were pushed off their lands and given new lands to live. They were forced to leave there home and travel 1200 miles to their new lands where a lot of the Indians died from famine, disease, and the natural elements of the trip. This story is important to learn because it shows how the Indians had almost everything taken away but some still survived. To learn of how unjust these tribes were treated and how hard they fought for lands and yet they still were forced to leave. Once they were forced to leave they had to travel by foot for 1,200 miles where they succumbed to sickness and the elements of the journey. An estimate of more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the Journey. Alfred Cave's article "Abuse of Power. “This source is an Academic Article that speaks about politics and what was going on in congress during this time of the removal act of the Native Indians. I made this choice to on the recommendation of my professor. This helps me prove and understand what Andrew Jackson did and chose to do to the Indians. Subaltern Voices in the Trail of Tears: Cognition and Resistance of the Cherokee Nation to Removal in Building American Empire by Casebeer, Kenneth M. This is another Academic Journal that speaks about the Indians and what they did to try to protect their legal right to their lands. I made this choice and found this source through a search in Shapiro Library. I want to know what The Indians had to go through. Indian Removal Act, and it’s a simple law with a complicated, cruel history. In 1830, it set the removal of entire groups of Native Americans from the map into motion. “The act was passed by Congress and signed into law in May 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to trade unsettled federal lands west of the Mississippi River for settled Native American-owned lands east of the river.”[ CITATION Eri17 \l 1033 ] I found the

document that set the "Trail of Tears" in motion this would be my primary source. It shows what started the actual Document that Andrew Jackson and congress had assembled. My second Primary source is a News Paper article that was wrote March 4th, 1829. I talks about how congress is changing the agreement they had with the Indians and the land that was their own. I is almost a warning of what is to come for the Cherokee. “And if the-title of the Cherokees to the lands which have never been conquered from them; which they have never ceded away; which they have from time immemorial occupied; which is fenced in upon all sides both by laws and treaties, with those who now claim it?—if their title to these lands be by one of the old treaties deemed defective, how are they to obtain an unquestionable title to any others? May not some new reading of the constitution be brought by their new neighbors to shew that Congress had no power to bargain away lie public lands, after the title had been once vested in the United States?”[ CITATION Lib29 \l 1033 ] This shows that although people could see what was happening it seems nothing could stop what was to come. I want to continue to investigate this I found a third secondary source of John Ross and Major Ridge who worked together to make the Cherokee a more “civilized” tribe. But despite the efforts they still were forced to leave their Lands. I want to know more about what the Indians tried to do to preserve what was their lands. Why did Andrew Jackson decided to remove his “Red Faced Children”? Why did he make it seem that he was on the Indians side? My audience is students or historians. I want to help them understand this time in history. To learn what we can from the past as not to keep repeating it. Teaching people that this country has treated people unfairly even though they went through the Supreme Court and tried to prove that these lands belonged to them. I will make sure to explain all of these findings and make sure

to give the definition of anything that is hard to understand for a student. To use terminology that everyone understands....