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7 pages in length. Often referred to as the American Holocaust, the Trail of Tears represents a battle between the European settlers and the Cherokee Indians that ultimately brought down the Cherokee Nation. In retelling the tale time and time again, various and minute details have been modified throughout the decades; however, the primary factor remains clear: the Cherokee Indians were forced to fight with blood, sweat and tears in order to uphold their dignity as The Principal People. The event that took place in North Georgia, ultimately to be known as the Trail of Tears, sheds considerable light on how the Cherokee were treated with severe disrespect and manipulation by the Europeans, whose goal it was to settle upon the Indian's territory. The writer discusses the events leading up to the Trail of Tears. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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retelling the tale time and time again, various and minute details have been modified throughout the decades; however, the primary factor remains clear: the Cherokee Indians were forced to fight
with blood, sweat and tears in order to uphold their dignity as "The Principal People" (Bixler JQ05). The event that took place in North Georgia, ultimately to be known
as the Trail of Tears, sheds considerable light on how the Cherokee were treated with severe disrespect and manipulation by the Europeans, whose goal it was to settle upon the
Indians territory. It had always been a European tradition to treat all living beings as they were created equal as a means by which to coexist with the various and
sundry peoples who occupied the planet. However, this noble policy was short-lived when the settlers moved their way into Cherokee region, eventually and forcibly moving them off their own
homeland. The Cherokee Indians inhabited the region after the Creek 2 Indians before them, finally naming the North Georgian hills as home in the seventeen hundreds. It was
then that a constant infiltration of European settlers were making their way onto the territory in their quest to move inland. Through a
series of treaties, the settlers obtain various parcels of land from the Cherokees, however, it was not through voluntary means that this exchange occurred. "Land cessions called treaties were
forced on the Cherokee under protest and on the most solemn assurances that no further demands would be made. White intruders called borderers continued moving into Cherokee territory, refusing
to move and waiting for the next treaty, which would make them the owners of the land" (Bixler JQ05). This was to be the first indication of significantly worse
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