GRACE STEELE WOODWARD AUTHOR OF THE CHEROKEES QUOTE

GRACE STEELE WOODWARD AUTHOR OF THE CHEROKEES – QUOTE 1 There were ten million Native Americans on this continent when the first non-Indians arrived. Over the next 300 years, 90% of all Native American original population was either wiped out by disease, famine, or warfare imported by the whites. By 1840 all the eastern tribes had been subdued, annihilated or forcibly removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi.

PRIVATE JOHN G. BURNETT CAPTAIN ABRAHAM MCCLELLAN'S COMPANY, 2 ND REGIMENT, 2 ND BRIGADE, MOUNTED INFANTRY CHEROKEE INDIAN REMOVAL 1838 -39 – QUOTE 2 "One by one Indian peoples were removed to the West. The Delaware, the Ottawa, Shawnee, Pawnee and Potawatomi, the Sauk and Fox, Miami and Kickapoo, the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole. In all some 90 thousand Indians were relocated. The Cherokee were among the last to go. Some reluctantly agreed to move. Others were driven from their homes at bayonet point. Almost two thousand of them died along the route they remembered as the Trail of Tears. "

BELLWORK-ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 1. Does quote 1 remind you of any other historic event. 2. Which of the two sources would be a primary source? Why? 3. What sources is more alarming to you?

ANDREW JACKSON Citizens wanted to occupy more land in the south. Problem: Land was controlled by Native Americans Andrew Jackson started to negotiate Native Americans sue Andrew Jackson

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT Supreme Court Ruled Native Americans can not own land but could live in the boundaries of America. Indians wanted self rule Jackson believed only way they could have self rule is to move them west of the Mississippi

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT 1830 Jackson signs Indian Removal Act Thousands were relocated to Oklahoma Territory Most were forcibly relocated Many died on the journey The route that was taken to move Indians was known as the “Trail of Tears” because of so many deaths.