President Andrew Jackson

They stressed allotment of tribal lands and the creation of individual farms. Overall, the Quaker experiences with the Indians during the 18th and 19th centuries were good with regard to religious tolerance.

The Quakers wanted to civilize and welfare the Indians. Since the Quakers believed in direct communication with God and spiritual equality for women, the Native Americans were more at ease in accepting the Quakers as their missionaries.

The goal of this civilization campaign was to make Native Americans as much like white Americans as possible by encouraging them convert to Christianity, learn to speak and read English and adopt European-style economic practices such as the individual ownership of land and other property (including, in some instances …

Members of some Native American tribes receive cash payouts from gaming revenue. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, for example, has paid its members $30,000 per month from casino earnings. Other tribes send out more modest annual checks of $1,000 or less.

Since Indian tribes living there appeared to be the main obstacle to westward expansion, white settlers petitioned the federal government to remove them. Under this kind of pressure, Native American tribes—specifically the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw—realized that they could not defeat the Americans in war.

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

A major reason for the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the Supreme Court ruling in 1823 of Johnson v. M’Intosh. In 1823, the court’s ruling that settlers in the South could not purchase lands from the Native Americans because they could not hold title to the lands even though they could occupy and control them.

What does Jackson name as the advantages of the Indian Removal Act for the United States? Native American removal would reduce conflict between the federal and state governments. It would allow white settlers to occupy more of the South and the West, presumably protecting from foreign invasion.

What was one result of American Indian removal for the Cherokee? The Cherokee struggled to support themselves in Indian Territory. NOT were not interested in following a nomadic way of life.

How has the United States tried to improve its relationship with the Cherokee? The United States government has passed laws allowing Cherokee tribes to govern themselves. It also provides special programs and services to “federally recognized” tribes.

Several tribes resisted removal, causing conflicts to erupt. Some tribes were forcibly removed, causing distrust for the government. The Cherokee were forced west along the Trail of Tears years later.

Most white Americans supported the Removal Act, especially southerners who were eager to expand southward. Expansion south would be good for the country and the future of the country’s economy with the later introduction of cotton production in the south.

It decreased the land owned by Indians by more than half and opened even more land to white settlers and railroads. Much of the reservation land wasn’t good farmland, and many Indians couldn’t afford the supplies needed to reap a harvest.

In 1828, Georgia passed a law pronouncing all laws of the Cherokee Nation to be null and void after June 1, 1830, forcing the issue of states’ rights with the federal government. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia in 1829, efforts to dislodge the Cherokee from their lands were intensified.

The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.

The Cherokee Nation asked for an injunction, claiming that Georgia’s state legislation had created laws that “go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society.” Georgia pushed hard to bring evidence that the Cherokee Nation couldn’t sue as a “foreign” nation due to the fact that they did not have a …

The laws annexed large tracts of Cherokee territory to various Georgia counties; outlawed meetings of the Cherokee legislature, declaring all of its acts null and void; required the Cherokee to obey the laws of Georgia; prohibited Native Americans from testifying against whites in court; provided severe punishment to …

the Creek and the Cherokee

Georgia, the Court ruled that the Cherokees did not constitute a foreign nation within the meaning of Article III of the Constitution – which extended the judicial power of the United States to cases between a state and a foreign nation – and that it therefore lacked jurisdiction to hear the claims of an Indian nation …

In 1673, English settlers came to Echota, the East Tennessee capital of the Cherokee Nation, to establish trade relations. European goods such as brass kettles, textiles, scissors and knives, guns and ammunition, metal hatchets and hoes, and trinkets were exchanged for native deerskins, beeswax, and river cane baskets.

Among the most famous Cherokees in history:

• Sequoyah (1767–1843), leader and inventor of the Cherokee writing system that took the tribe from an illiterate group to one of the best educated peoples in the country during the early-to-mid 1800s.
• Will Rogers (1879–1935), famed journalist and entertainer.
• Joseph J.

There are seven clans: A-ni-gi-lo-hi (Long Hair), A-ni-sa-ho-ni (Blue), A-ni-wa-ya (Wolf), A-ni-go-te-ge-wi (Wild Potato), A-ni-a-wi (Deer), A-ni-tsi-s-qua (Bird), A-ni-wo-di (Paint).

Religion and Ceremonies The Cherokee were a religious people who believed in spirits. They performed ceremonies in order to ask the spirits to help them. They would have special ceremonies before going to battle, leaving on a hunt, and when trying to heal sick people.

The Cherokee are North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization of the Americas. Their name is derived from a Creek word meaning “people of different speech”; many prefer to be known as Keetoowah or Tsalagi.