...Woman of Color Project on Wilma Mankiller My presentation is on Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nations first female Indian Chief Can a young Cherokee girl grow up to be a Chief? Before Wilma Mankiller grew up to be her tribe’s chosen leader many Indian girls believed that answer to be no. Wilma had a lot to overcome personally in order to be a leader as Wilma was a shy and quiet person who didn’t like to speak in public or talk in front of a camera. One day while driving along the reservation, Wilma saw something that changed her mind. Looking at the plight of her people from an outsiders view, Wilma decided she needed to do something to help her people become the great people she knew they could become. Overcoming her shyness, Wilma set out to campaign her way to deputy chief a step just below Chief. Why wouldn’t she win? It wasn’t easy for Wilma in the beginning. Many Cherokees didn’t want to be governed by a woman; only “good ole boys” could run the Cherokee Nation. Even though Indian women had always been medicine women, warriors and council members, basically having equal rights to the men, people were talking behind her back and not happy with a woman becoming chief. She had to endure slashed tires and even death threats. Wilma believed sexism was the white man’s culture and it was creeping into the Indian culture. She set out to prove them wrong. When Wilma was only ten, her whole family was relocated to California as part of a Federal Government’s...
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...While reading John Ross, “Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation” it is easy to say that the Cherokees were not content about their expulsion. Since the 1820s, the state of Georgia had been working to eject the Cherokee, who occupied valuable land where gold had been recently discovered. At first the Cherokee were cautious about the United States Government since they had yet to fulfil any of their passed agreements. Through letters, the president of the United States promises that “those who remain may be assured of our patronage, our aid, and good neighborhood” yet soon after the discovery of gold the Cherokees were arrested, abused, and even killed. The Cherokee nation was not to be fooled for they knew that the cause of their expulsion...
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...US History to 1877 Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle Having little knowledge of the Cherokee removal and the history that took place in this moment in America’s past, the book Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle, offers an insight to the politics, social dynamics and class struggles the Cherokee Nation faced in the late 1830s. The book was very comprehensive and the scope of the book covers nearly 100 years of Native American History. Ehle captures the history of the Native American people by showing the readers what led to the events infamously known as the Trail of Tears. The author uses real military orders, journals, and letters which aid in creating a book that keeps the reader interested in the history that unfolded. The book is very dense with research and the style it is written in is from a contemporary voice, in other words, as the reader you sometimes get the feeling of emotion involved and other times there is a history textbook feeling from the author, which made the reading slightly difficult. I expected the novel to be very emotional narrative that would be sympathetic towards the Cherokee people, but it was a mixture of narrative plus historical facts. The book portrays the actual history, through the use of the many primary sources mentioned earlier, of the Cherokee people, but I believe that the author used that to frame the personalities of his characters as to what their decision making might...
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...Book Review: John Ehle’s Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation The book Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle is a book about the Cherokee Indians and the suffering they endured during the late 1830s. Ehle wrote a book that was more than just a documentation of what happened on the Trail of Tears; he wrote a detailed documentation of Native American history. It centered more around the Cherokees than any other textbook could considering it helped visualize who the Cherokees were as people and not what they went through during such a political time period. Ehle used an abundance of historical facts to convey the Cherokee way of life before and during the Trail of Tears like no author of any textbook ever could. Furthermore, the way Ehle helped the audience envision the Cherokees is what I really enjoyed about this book. Starting out Ehle shapes the Cherokees in a way that helps the audience distinguish that they were not entirely blameless for what actually happened. He helps us take a look into the darker sides of the Cherokee culture we many not read in our textbooks or generally many websites that describe the culture. White Americans are generally blamed for always pushing themselves forward and at the rise to the top stepping over whomever comes their way, but now we see who America was stepping over. Regarding this, Cherokees were not so different from White Americans. Just like many other races the Cherokees held...
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...Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Nineteenth century was a time of social upheaval and enormous political in the Cherokee Nation. Most readers will probably be familiar with the tragedy of the “Trail of Tears " when federal troops Cherokee Indians forced to give up land in Georgia , Alabama , Tennessee and North Caroiina settled in India Territory ( present day Oklahoma ) in 1838-1839 . What may not be widely is known to kill just one of a number of significant changes are experienced by Cherokee Nation in the nineteenth century. The Cherokees radical transformation of political institutions and their legal at the beginning of the century; survivors internal conflicts, which verged on civil war, as a result of the removal policy of the 1830; beyond the American Civil War and its reconstruction as they struggled to combine their slaves into society, and face federal efforts to dismantle the sovereignty of India as the century drew to a close. In many respects, the legal institutions of the nineteenth century Cherokee Nation like those of the United States. The Cherokees split their government into three branches: an executive expressed by the Minister, a judicial body with district and supreme courts and legislatures have created laws for the nation. This article will review some of the laws passed by the legislature of Cherokee governments, especially those related to marriage and sex. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee adopted a...
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...several other individuals were found multiple times within the Cherokee nation without a license and they also didn’t take the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Worchester opposed the laws because he didn’t believe that Georgia could not maintain the prosecution of the Cherokee nation because it violated the constitution and treaties between the US and the Cherokee nation. (oyez.org) Samuel Worchester is a native or Vermont and was a minister with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The board sent Worchester on a mission in the Cherokee nation in Brainerd, Tennessee. He was then transferred to the capital city of New Ecota in Georgia where he was tasked with...
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...the region, historically, as well as in the present day. One of the most highly concentrated native enclaves in Oklahoma is the proliferation of members of the Cherokee Nation in the northeastern corner of the state, including Adair County. According to the 2010 Census, Adair County’s population is 43.3% Native American, and almost the largest single portion of the Cherokee Nation lives in Adair and the neighboring counties, such as the Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, and Wagoner Counties, as well as nine more. There are smaller portions of other Native American tribes and nations living in the...
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...Cherokee Indian Tribe Robert W. Dockett SOC/262 October 6, 2015 Veretta Nix Cherokee Indian Tribe The Cherokee Indian Tribe has a long and rich standing in North America. The Cherokee Indians were one of the first non-European ethnic groups to become citizens of the United States. The Cherokee tribes have dealt with attempts to relocate them to less desirable lands in North America along with being in wars such as the French and Indian War, and Cherokee-American Wars. Cherokee tribes were quick to latch on to European and American ideologies and used them to their benefit. The Cherokee Nation has been a large part of the Native American tradition in North America. The Cherokee Indian Tribe has dealt with their fair shares of ups and downs in the United States. It is believed that the Cherokee Indians were originally settled in the Great Lakes region of North America, and then migrated south. They did so knowing that there were other Iroquoian-speaking tribes in the south. Early Cherokee Indians were primarily found in what is now Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. In the 1830’s the Indian Removal Act forced many Cherokee Indians into Oklahoma and Arkansas. Today the Cherokee Nations headquarters is in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are also satellite communities within the Cherokee nation, many of them being in the southern states in North America. This resulted due to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians. In the 1800’s many different Indian tribes...
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...II – The Cherokee Nation in the Golden Age a) Employment opportunity The statistics show that the Cherokees were truly entering a “Golden Age” of economic and social development in the 1900’s. As evidence, many positive factors may be cited like employment opportunity, housing and construction, educational and cultural activities, and social welfare. About the first one, the Cherokees created the prideful Tsa-La-Gi Cultural Center which gave seasonal jobs to some 150 people each year, of whom eighty per cent were Cherokees. In the same way, the Neighborhood Youth Corps program has provided jobs for more than 3,000 young Cherokees. Cherokee Nation Industries has also had phenomenal growth and success. This company employed approximately 180...
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...mountains, caves, and rivers all carry some kind of symbolic meanings and purposes relating to their culture understanding. For instance, the Yaqui tribe is known to perform deer songs and dances, a central ritual within their culture, that allows them to spiritually be, live, connect or communicate with one’s universe (Evers and Molina). Whereas for another tribe, such as the Tewa, perform their own unique rituals. The Cherokee tribe is one of the many indigenous tribes in North America that have been shaped by their local landscape and history. Like every American Indian tribe, the Cherokee consists of many different cultural worldviews, traditions, and beliefs that brought them to express their culture in their own way. In this paper, I will present several important beliefs, ceremonies, and history event that took a great part in their culture shape. The Cherokee society is originally from the southeastern areas of the United States. They claim most territories among the mountains surrounding Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The Cherokee nation is most recognized...
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...there here that will not perish, if this great nation may be saved?” – Elias Boudinot, Cherokee Nation, December 29, 1835 There might not be any other ethnicity in the United States that has suffered as much deculterization, destruction and blatant ridicule by the majority ruling class than the Native American people. The very beginning of Anglo settlement in the new world marked the beginning of the end of the very way of life and culture that the native people enjoyed prior to the rampant spread of disease and warfare that would come to symbolize the Native relationship with the Anglo-European people of the United States. As the Anglo grip on the nation grew tighter, it became apparent that either you accept violence as your tribe’s only salvation, or you decide to accept whatever offer the ruling white class decided to offer your tribe, in hopes that your tribes willingness to abide by whatever rules and regulations imposed will eventually save your people from the fate of so many of your brothers and sisters across the country. No tribe personified this reality better than the Cherokee Nation of the Southeastern United States, and no one Cherokee Indian should be connected with the struggle of acculteration verses preservation than Elias Boudinot, the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American paper in the United States. As it will be revealed, Boudinot is one of the most controversial members of Cherokee history, a person whose sharp intellect and journalist...
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...CHEROKEE INDIANS “They took the whole Cherokee Nation…” by Miya Oliver 4th Grade Saint Agnes School I picked the Cherokee Indians to do my research paper on and when I was looking for stories about them we (me and my dad) found some good things. When we searched we saw a lot of good pictures. We saw some good stories and a sad story about these Indians. |The Cherokee Indians that I picked were of the Southeast part of the North American Continent and were known as the Cherokee | |Nation. The map below shows us where they lived. | |Southeast Culture Area | |[pic] | |[pic] | |[pic] | |Native Americans of the Southeast culture area were skilled farmers who settled in villages along river valleys. They cultivated| |maize, beans and squash, and frequently changed their fields and village sites when soils became depleted. Southeast peoples | |hunted, fished, and foraged wild plant foods to fill out their diet. ...
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...happened to the cherokee indians during 1830 when the indian removal act was signed. The cherokee had been living in Georgia for a hundred years before the first Georgians arrived and were forced to move west into Louisiana. There were many reasons for this act to happen however it was as if the Cherokee had no say against it. The government was very biased for its people and did little to support the cherokee. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not justified because the cherokees were getting kicked out of their own homelands, they were treated poorly, and only a small majority of the cherokee agreed with...
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...Native Americans: Cherokee Are you or someone you know related to the Native American Tribe: Cherokee? There is a great chance that you yourself or someone you know is related to the Cherokee people in some way. The Cherokee people have a long history in the United States. They are believed to have been living here thousands of years before anyone even journeyed to North America. Despite their rough history the Cherokee Native American Tribe has stayed strong through their culture, Traditions, and way of life. The Cherokee Native American Tribe have a long, rough history starting all the way back to when they contacted with the Europeans back in the 16th century. Although they have a rough history, the Cherokee Native Americans have been...
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...Historically, the United States of America and Native American Nations was full of tumultuous occurrences of ecocide, ethnocide and genocide. One of the most prevalent situations of their interactions was the Trail of Tears, which resulted in lasting effects on the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations. It was an act of genocide against the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations by the United States of America. Today, these Nations still feel the impact of this atrocious event and continue to tell stories of the horrific experiences that their people endured. The event stemmed out of the white settler expansion into the South during the early 19th century. White settlers wanted to acquire high yield land from Native American Nations for growing cotton. Native American people were standing in the way of progress for white settlers and the United States did not uphold their agreement with these nations. Thus these communities were forcefully removed to a distant and foreign land that resulted in the death of many of their...
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