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A 7 page discussion of the forced removal of the Cherokee Indian in 1838 from their eastern homelands in the United States. Written from the perspective of a foreign reporter who witnessed the event first hand. Provides details of the events which led up to the removal. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPtrailT.rtf
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The events which have unfolded in the young United States
in relation to their interrelationships with the indigenous peoples of that country are difficult to understand and even more difficult to explain. The Cherokee people form one of the
largest native groups in the eastern expanses of the United States territory. They are also one of the most misunderstood groups and one of the most betrayed.
The Cherokee have now been forced from their lands by gunpoint and forced to march across country in the dead of winter to lands which
have been allocated to them by the United States government. There have been numerous reasons leading up to the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their lands in
the eastern United States. Most of these events have been precipitated, however, by one simple factor, greed. The essence of the causes behind the removal is that the
white settlers of the Americas, settlers who not very long ago left our own shores in search of a more just and humane existence, wanted Cherokee land. The Cherokee,
even thought they have adapted considerably well to our European cultures and lifeways have become an obstacle to these desires. They are, however, an obstacle which has proven itself
to be easily removed with the use of armed troops and the might of the young United States military. As quick as we
are to blame ourselves, the reader should understand that a good number of the events which preceded the removal of the Cherokee people, the removal itself, and the events which
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