Native American History

Native American History

Introduction

Native Americans are the indigenous peoples in North America inside the lines of the present-day continental United States, regions of Alaska, and the island of Hawaii. They are made up of many, differentiated Native American and ethnic tribes, many of them get away with it as intact political groups. The topic of Native American has been very controversial. Most of the respondents with great preference refer to themselves as American Indians, and this term was accepted by many major and important academic groups and newspapers; however, this term does not include Native Hawaiians, such as Inuit, Aleuts, Cup'ik and Alvtiiq peoples, who were not American Indians.

The Cherokees are a Native American tribe of Muskogean linguistic stock who lived in which is now south-eastern Mississippi and part of Alabama before being eliminated to unwilling lands, west of the Mississippi River by aggressive treaties of the US government . A pattern was set by this removal for what would happen in later stages to other tribes.

Discussion

Cases for resisting removal

Under President Andrew Jackson, in 1830 a law was passed by the Government of United states of America, known as the Indian Removal Act. This law was against the Indians as it allowed the American government to make the Indians vacate their soil and migrate to reservation lands or one can say more unsettled land, geographical regions the government had put aside for their use. As many of the tribes were spiritually and physically attached with their land so they never wanted to migrate from there. But army was sent to make them empty those places by force if they don't vacate the land. Native Americans who were ready to leave their homes were given land west of the Mississippi. Many of them did not want to vacate their ...