Questions and answers about Cherokees

Thèmes abordés

Tribe, Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Cherokee language, US

Résumé du document

The most civilized were the Cherokees, they were the leaders. The tribe still owned most of their heartlands, and they took advice of the white to be cilivized. They made economic progress, and they ask for schools. The tribe was literate, and communicate with each other in writing. They began to publish a newspaper with the columns in English and Cherokee (so fullbloods can be informed on current happenings.) They published books and the Bible in Cherokee language. They developed a responsible government and formulate a legal code. The government has a princial chief, a council and a system of courts.

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[...] They were tricked into a removal treaty but they refused to go. The Seminole civil war was the most costly to the United State in money and human lives. Because of that their population reduced by nearly 40%. The Governement finally gave up and let the Seminoles stay in Florida. Later many of them accepted federal services and reservations but others insisted that they were still at war with the US. The Seminoles were taken to the Everglades opposed to the other tribes which were mostly relocated to the West What is mean by the Indian Territory ? [...]

[...] Were the Cherokees a perfectly egalitarian nation ? The leaders of the Cherokee nation at the beginning of the 19th century were John Ross, The Ridge and Oowatie. The Cherokees were a egalitarian nation because the chief lives the same way as the others At the beginning of the 19th century which tribes were the first two to be forcibly removed ? The first two tribes to be forcibly moved were the Choctaws and the Creeks To what extent was the white's promise of individual land holdings given to indians most often a trap to better dispossess the tribes ? [...]

[...] Questions about the Cherokees 1. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes ? Which one was the most civilized ? Explain this from a linguisitiv, political and economic point of view ? Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles The most civilized were the Cherokees, they were the leaders. The tribe still owned most of their heartlands, and they took advice of the white to be cilivized. They made economic progress, and they ask for schools. The tribe was literate, and communicate with each other in writing. [...]

[...] It was the Georgia Guard to enforce state law in the country. The Georgia Guard was composed of ruffians, who terrorized the Cherokees. Then the state held its land lottery, the houses and fields of the tribe get to the holders of lucky numbers. There were ejected from their cabins and fields and robbed of their livestock. Then later, they were again forcibly removed. They were rounded up in stockades and taken in detachment to the West. There was a lot of dead 9. [...]

[...] The Indians converted to christianism. There were individual farms and everbody had negro slaves just like how the white people had. The conclusion is the fact that the Indians became like white people and started to live like them Why can we describe the period around 1857 as the last period of crisis for the Civilized Tribes settled in the Indian territory ? How did they cope with it ? Robert J.Walker the territorial governor of Kansas wanted to remove the Indians from the Indian territory but then Major Elias Recor of Arkansas filled his report with good and positive descriptions of the potential wealth of their country and the advantage to them of admitting the Indians to settle there and influence them in civilization. [...]