Native+American+Resistance

My topic is the Native American resistance to move from their land.

What i know: who? Other people wanting the Native Americans to move from their lands. What? Many Native American who resisted to move were hurt or killed. Where? They were being pushed West. When? I dont know Why? Because people were moving in to their land but they were taking over everything. How? I'm not sure. I think they were either hurt or killed.

What I want to know: Who? Who were these other people that wanted to take over their lands? What? What was it like for the Native Americans to leave their lands? Where? Where were they being taken? Or did they have to find a new home? When? When did the taking over their lands over? Why? Why were they being forced of their lands? How? How were the Natives Americans affected by this?

My research Strategy: who? I'll ask Ms. Horn and Ms. Brem for help in locting information. I could ask Ms. Brolan or Mr. D. I could ask the public librarian. What? Expert websites, databases, encyplopedias, books, text books. When? During class or outside of class peiod if needed. Where? The CTMS and public library, on any other computer for online resources. How? I'll use my thesis statement and research questions to figure out what to look for and what to take notes on. Key words for searching: "Native American movement", "Native Americans moving", "land taken from Native Americans",

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The take over of Native American lands was a tragedy that continues to haunt Americans, especially Native Americans. This was a very bad tragedy to the Indias because they had to move of their lalnd just because the Americans wanted to move west and settle were their homes were. The Americans did what ever it took to take their lands.

The Indian removal was suggested by Thomas Jefferson. The point of this act was to get the Indians to migrate voluntary to the west and live free and happy with out harrasment of the white man. The reason that Jackson introduced this act was to get the Native Americans to sell their homes and exchange them for lands in Arkansas and Oklahoma. This would give the white man more land and it would give the Native Americans a chance to move and make new homes and be able to do everything freely.(Digital History) This was an impact in American History because this is why the Native Americans started to fight and why Tomas Jefferson thought it was a good idea to introduce this act.

Why were these policies introduced? Because the white man considered it an easy way to get around their obsticle. They thought of the Native American as an threat to the security of the nation. (Digital History) So the Americans were focused on getting the Native Americans out of their land so the Americans could move west. This was a really big issue and argument so since the Native Americans resisted to move they were forced to leave and this tragedy is know as the "Trail of Tears". This is an impact because the Native Americans tried to give their fight but they were to weak compare to the soldiers that came to take them out of their lands.

On a regular day just like any other "The soldiers arrived witout warning on a spring day in 1838. They moved from home to home, rounding up Cherokee women and children and forcing them toward the main road." (Stewart, Mark) The soldiers came form every directions in to the nation. each soldier carried his bayonet and musket with a pouch of bullets. Among them came wagons with lots of food and tools. officers with their swords and bright uniforms were at the head of the marching troops. They were given little or no time to round up belongings. protest was sometimes met with a gun but to the head. One soldier, who also witnessed the carnage of the u.s. civil war 25 years later, said the cherokee removal was the cruelest thing he had ever seen. (Stewart, Mark) This just tells you how bad the Native American were treated with this act.

During the winter of 1831, the Choctaw became the first tribe to walk the “Trail of Tears” westward. Promised government assistance failed to arrive, and malnutrition, exposure, and a cholera epidemic killed many members of the nation. Then, in 1836, the Creek suffered the hardships of removal. About 3,500 of the tribe’s 15,000 members died along the westward trek. Those who resisted removal were bound in chains and marched in double file. (digital History) These were some of the reasons why the Native Americans died when they were moving on the Trail of Tears. This was hard for the Native Americans to move of their land and to know that if they fought and tried to resist they would get killed.

This was a terrible tragedy because the way that Thomas Jefferson proposed this act so the Americans could take the land of the Native Americans. Also because the way that the policy was not rejected even though the act would bring a lot of suffering and resistance of the Indians to move of their land. But now even though they had made the Native Americans move it was not enough that the Americans sent their soldiers to make them move as soon as possible and if the Indians resisted the soldiers would kill them. All the suffering of the Native Americans leaving their land became known as "The Trail of Tears".

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