By: Ethan, Mariha, Philip, and Andrew

There are five remaining large tribes living east of the Mississippi River:

Cherokees

Creeks

Choctaws

Chickasaws

Seminoles

The Cherokees are original residents of the American southeast region, particularly;

Georgia

North and South Carolina

Virginia

Kentucky

Tennessee

The Cherokee name comes from a Muskogee word meaning 'speakers of another language.

The Choctaws (CHOCK-taw) are original people of the American southeast, particularly;

Mississippi

Alabama

Louisiana

Florida.

Their name comes from their own tribal name, Chahta, which was the name of a legendary Choctaw leader

The Chickasaws (CHICK-a-saw) are original people of the American southeast, particularly; Mississippi

Alabama

Tennessee

Kentucky

Missouri.

Their name comes from their own tribal name, Chikasha, which was the name of a legendary Chickasaw leader

Seminoles (SHE-minn-ole) are a tribe formed from the Creeks, Miccosukees, Hitchitis and Oconees joining together for protection.

Their name comes from a Spanish word meaning "wild.“

The Cherokee Nation was greatly assimilated into American culture.

By the late 1820’s, they had developed a functioning government with a bicameral legislation, a constitution, and a supreme court.

Intermarriages between Americans and Native Americans were not uncommon. Many Native Americans even converted to Christianity.

Cherokee fought in a supreme court case to stay in their lands in Georgia and to keep their sovereignty.

Many Cherokee were very prosperous in life. They were successful farmers, business owners, and some even owned slaves. This kind of integration did not sit well with many whites.

The Native American Removal Act gave Jackson the power to force the Native Americans to give their land to the U.S.

The Americans used unscrupulous tactics in order to get many tribes to accept the agreement.

Chief Black Hawk was one of the 1st

victims of the federal government’s “persuasive” tactics.

Most Americans thought of Native Americans as racially inferior.

Native American

Issues

One the problem with the Native American's would be that the we kick them out of there land .

President Jackson promised a permanent homeland for the Native Americans but later on, Native Americans move them to even smaller land.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=native+american

This picture is what it look like when the Native Americans were push to

small land.

This an Native American quote that was push to a smaller land

The removal act and

the court case of 1832

One problem with the removal act was forced moving west was thousands of Cherokees died.Religious groups such as the Quakers also opposed forced removal of Native Americans .chief John Marshall led the Cherokees so they would not be push to Georgia. So now the Americans round them up in push the native Americans in a camp and one / forth died in the campThe native Americans won the court case in 1832 but president Jackson pushed them to Georgia anyway.