2. What is the Trail of Tears?The Trail of Tears was a forced
relocation of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian
Territory. 3. The two main reasons that caused the beginning of the
Cherokee migration were: Gold was discovered in Georgia and white
settlers wanted to get that gold and the thirst for expansion. The
Government, under President Andrew Jackson, authorized the Indian
Removal Act of 1830. This act was to force the Native Americans off
of their ancestral lands. 4. Ideas of the Indians Versus the
Americans Indians -Land is not for sale, it is for everyone -Live
on the land they got from a higher spirit Americans -Land is to buy
and to own -Buy land to find gold and other resources 5. Being
Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony
with all things and all beings. It is allowing the heart to be the
distributor of energy on this planet; to allow feelings and
sensitivities to determine where energy goes; bringing aliveness up
from the Earth and from the Sky, putting it in and giving it out
from the heart. -Brooke Medicine Eagle 6. The Five Civilized Tribes
-This was the name given by whites to the Creek, Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole. -They called them this because
they gave up many of their ways to live peacefully with the whites.
-Most had given up hunting to become farmers. -Many had learned to
read and write: The Cherokee had their own written language, a
newspaper, and a constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution. 7.
Living Places of the Cherokee: -Georgia -North and South Carolina
-Kentucky -Virginia -Tennessee All states were at or near the
East-Coast. 8. The Cherokee lived peacefully side by side with
whites, but tensions between Georgia and the Cherokee Nation were
brought to a crisis by the discovery of gold in Georgia in 1829,
resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush, the first gold rush in U.S.
history. Hopeful gold speculators began trespassing on Cherokee
lands. 9. Leaders of Both Parties Cherokee Indians Leader:
SequoyahAmerican Settlers Leader: Andrew Jackson 10. Removing the
Indians from their Lands... -By the time Andrew Jackson became
president, only 125,000 Native Americans still lived east of the
Mississippi. -Jackson believed that the Government should be
organized to benefit the great body of the United States- the
planter, the mechanic, and the laborer. -Andrew Jackson had a goal
to remove the remaining Indians to a new Indian Territory in the
West (present-day Oklahoma). -The Indians called Andrew Jackson
Sharp Knife. 11. The Indian Removal Act -The Indian Removal Act,
part of a United States government policy known as Indian removal,
was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 26, 1830.
-It allowed the president to make treaties in which Native
Americans in the East traded their lands for new territory on the
Great Plains. 12. The Trail of Tears -More than 17,000 Cherokee
were dragged from their homes in Georgia and herded west by federal
troops -4,000 died during the walk to Indian Territory 13. The
Trail of Tears -Thousands of Creeks were also taken from Alabama in
handcuffs, and marched west. -One soldier called it, The cruelest
work I ever knew. -Many whites were ashamed and appalled by the
treatment of Indians and protested in Washington D.C.
