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A 4 page discussion of the Trail of Tears and its injustices. This paper targets those injustices from the perspective of tribal sovereignty. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPnaTrailOfTears.rtf
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of the eastern tribes of Native Americans that occurred in the mid 1800s is one of the most horrendous chapters of U.S. history. That removal, fittingly enough, has been
dubbed the Trail of Tears by the peoples whose lives were forever changed because the U.S. government no longer wanted them occupying the lands that had served as their homelands
for centuries. The Cherokee people were one of five tribes that suffered greatly on and because of the act that ultimately became known as the Trail of Tears.
While numerous justifications have been attempted both in the years leading up the removal and in the decades following it, the real reason behind this atrocious act was greed.
Very simply, the Removal occurred because the whites that had settled on or near traditional Cherokee lands and those that intended to settle there wanted complete control of that land.
That control could not be guaranteed as long as the Cherokee remained in the Southeast. What occurred during the Removal was, in fact, completely unacceptable given the sovereign
status of the Indian peoples. The thesis can be presented, in fact, that: The
Cherokee people were a sovereign nation at the time of the Removal and the U.S. government had no inherent right to force them to any action let alone no right
to remove them entirely from their ancestral homelands. Many excuses were made to explain why
it was not acceptable for the Cherokee to remain on their ancestral lands. One excuse was that the Cherokee were a primitive and savage people that would never be
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