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Position:Home>History> How many of you are familar with the Trail of Tears?Question: How many of you are familar with the Trail of Tears!? What do you know of it!? I know much but always want to learn more, it is my heritage!. ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Trail of Tears should be taught in every grade of middle and high school!. It was one of the most horrible things our country ever did!. The Civil War (what was so civil!?) comes in at second in my eyes!. What was done (and is still being done in some instances) is a national disgrace and has still not been adequately understood and/or compensated!. I began to realize what had happened and how I felt about it at about age 14!. I still feel guilty - almost as though I had been a part of it!. I will be attending a Native American Fall Festival on the island of Chincoteague in Virginia next week!. I am always interested in knowing more about our First People!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States!. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831!.[1] Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their destinations, and many died, including, for example, 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee!.[2] Thousands of enslaved and free African-Americans (as slaves accompanying their Native American slaveowners and as former runaway slaves that were assisted by, assimilated by, or married to members of the tribes) accompanied the removed nations on the Trail of Tears!.[3] In 1830, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole (sometimes collectively referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes) were living as autonomous nations in what would be called the American Deep South!. The process of cultural transformation (proposed by George Washington and Henry Knox) was gaining momentum, especially among the Cherokee and Choctaw!.[4] Indian removal was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson!.[citation needed] Andrew Jackson was the first U!.S!. President to implement removal with the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830!. In 1831 the Choctaw were the first to be removed, and they became the model for all other removals!. After the Choctaw, the Seminole were removed in 1832, the Creek in 1834, then the Chickasaw in 1837, and finally the Cherokee in 1838!.Www@QuestionHome@Com One of many shameful events in our treatment of Native American people!. We need to remember this and teach about it so we don't become to proud and repeat these kind of mistakes and repeat such evil!. Why we never honored our agreements was through the sin of arrogance!. The mind set at the time was one of "manifest destiny" and the right of expansion coast to coast!. The great migration from Europe was filling the Cities in the East Coast and expansion west was the easy option and manifest destiny was the excuse!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes it should be taught in schools!.Like this A group of AMERICANS had there lands confiscated by EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS and their decendants and forcibly relocated somewhere else!. If we invaded CHINA and relocated all the people there some where else that wouldn't make us chinese!.Www@QuestionHome@Com sorry but the details escape me, it was the forced march of Indians onto reservations in the west, which they were not native to!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The fact that the path that was taken can still be seen after all these years stands as mute testiment to a savage treatment of peopleWww@QuestionHome@Com I know quite a bit, though probably not much more than you!. I'm Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Potawatomi myself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |