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1838 Cherokee Trail of Tears Lucas S.

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 * TASK I: **
 * Georgia’s gold forces Cherokees to move out of their lands. **

Because of a new era gold rush, the Native American Tribe "Cherokee" is forced to move from Georgia to Oklahoma after their deal ruled by the Supreme Court but denied by the President and State Officials is denied.

In 1838 (three years ago) president Andrew Jackson along with state officials from Georgia forced the Native American Cherokee tribe to move out of their lands and march to Oklahoma. Six years ago (1835) gold was discovered around the Georgia area where the Cherokees were located. Afraid that they were going to lose all of their lands, the Cherokee tribe proposed a deal to president Jackson, in which the lands east of the Mississippi River would become part of the U.S. for five million dollars, but it was neglected by both the state officials and president Jackson. The Cherokees received an order stating that they were to move out of their lands and march to Oklahoma, but the tribe disagreed with that, and went to court, protesting for their rights. The court decided that forcing a Native American tribe to move out of their lands was unconstitutional, but president Jackson disagreed with the Court’s decision, and so later in 1838 the march to Oklahoma started.

So far "about 1,000 Cherokees were sent to prison camps" (Ross 1) due to disobeying law enforcers. The march so far has taken many Cherokee lives due to the lack of food and water, and because there wasn't enough time for the ill and tired to rest. "Those tribes cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens" (Boggs 2) said President Jackson, meaning that the tribes were literally marching to the middle of nowhere so that they would not interfere with the lives of the modern society.

Right now we're expecting to hear back from the Cherokees, but the outlook isn't so good for them, their rights have been corrupted and they values totally vanished. Task 1: Mastery Rubric A quality news article will: •open with an attention-grabbing headline •identify the author's name and the date of the publication (in the past) •develop the 5 W's in three power paragraphs •paragraph 1: contain an interesting lead •paragraph 2: correctly cite a secondary source (an indirect quote) •paragraph 3: correctly cite a primary source (eyewitness account) •maintain appropriate journalistic voice •read like an article written in the same time period as the event occurred • be free of mechanics and Works Cited errors TASK II What is the Argument? Was it right to force a Native American tribe to move out of their lands just so the country could obtain more gold?

PROMPT 1: Why did the majority of Americans not recognize the rights of members of this group?

In1838 the Cherokees (Native American tribe) were ordered to march from Georgia to Oklahoma because of a gold rush that was about to take place in Georgia. The Cherokees were abused and treated as slaves throughout their journey. After a year of nonstop marching, the Cherokees finally arrived at their new lands, given to them by president Andrew Jackson. The portion of land that was given to them was hundreds of miles away from civilization because president Jackson didn't want them near the modern society. The Cherokee’s were treated like animals; they were constantly beaten and tortured by the white community. They were different than the American civilization; they didn’t have technology, nor an established small government even thought the Cherokee's proved to the American society that they were "capable of producing their own newspaper, which generated 300 dollars of profit every year." (Boudinot). Many people back then thought that if something behaves like an animal it should be treated as an animal, which led to the horrible way the Cherokees were treated. The 1838 Cherokee Trail of Tears didn’t just impact the Cherokees, but the whole nation. It showed the minority groups that the same thing could happen to them anytime, and it gave the white majority a bigger sense of superiority towards the minority groups.

PROMPT 2: How did advocates for the minority group shed light on this injustice?POST PARAGRAPH HERE

The advocates in this case was the Supreme Court. The Cherokees went to court because they believed that being kicked out of their lands was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court agreed with the Cherokees, allowing them to stay on their homelands. Unfortunately the state officials along with president Andrew Jackson, decided to ignore the Court's decision, therefore making the Cherokees march from Georgia to Oklahoma. That shows how even though the Court was trying to help the Cherokees, the nation's ambition for gold was bigger, and led to this native american tribe to move to another place thousands of miles away "contributing to the destruction of another Native American tribe" (Rex). Even when someone has good intentions towards helping someone, there are always going to be people not striding to help, but striding to gain benefits.

__Paragraph 1:__ Analyze the impact of the literary or artistic work for the minority group and/or American society as a whole. POST PARAGRAPH HERE


 * America's Poor Man's Poet**

THE NEVER ENDING TRAIL By: Del Abe Jones

The whites honor the "Hermitage" And the man who once lived there But, that leader of our Nation Was cruel, unjust, unfair

He ordered the removal Of the Cherokee from their land And forced them on a trek That the Devil must have planned

One thousand miles of misery Of pain and suffering Because greed of the white man Could not even wait till spring

We should bow our heads in shame Even unto this day About "The Trail Of Tears" And those who died along the way

It was October, eighteen thirty-eight When seven thousand troops in blue Began the story of the "Trail" Which, so sadly, is so true

Jackson ordered General Scott To rout the Indian from their home The "Center Of The World" they loved The only one they'd known

The Braves working in the fields Arrested, placed in a stockade Women and children dragged from home In the bluecoats shameful raid

Some were prodded with bayonets When, they were deemed to move too slow To where the Sky was their blanket And the cold Earth, their pillow

In one home a Babe had died Sometime in the night before And women mourning, planning burial Were cruelly herded out the door

In another, a frail Mother Papoose on back and two in tow Was told she must leave her home Was told that she must go

She uttered a quiet prayer Told the old family dog good-bye Then, her broken heart gave out And she sank slowly down to die

Chief Junaluska witnessed this Tears streaming down his face Said if he could have known this It would have never taken place

For, at the battle of Horse Shoe With five hundred Warriors, his best Helped Andrew Jackson win that battle And lay thirty-three Braves to rest

And the Chief drove his tomahawk Through a Creek Warrior's head Who was about to kill Jackson But whose life was saved, instead

Chief John Ross knew this story And once sent Junaluska to plead Thinking Jackson would listen to This Chief who did that deed

But, Jackson was cold, indifferent To the one he owed his life to Said, "The Cherokee's fate is sealed There's nothing, I can do."

Washington, D.C. had decreed They must be moved Westward And all their pleas and protests To this day still go unheard

On November, the seventeenth Old Man Winter reared his head And freezing cold, sleet and snow Littered that trail with the dead

On one night, at least twenty-two Were released from their torment To join that Great Spirit in the Sky Where all good souls are sent

Many humane, heroic stories Were written 'long the way A monument, for one of them Still stands until this day

It seems one noble woman It was Chief Ross' wife Gave her blanket to a sick child And in so doing, gave her life

She is buried in an unmarked grave Dug shallow near the "Trail" Just one more tragic ending In this tragic, shameful tale

Mother Nature showed no mercy Till they reached the end of the line When that fateful journey ended On March twenty-sixth, eighteen thirty-nine

Each mile of this infamous "Trail" Marks the graves of four who died Four thousand poor souls in al Marks the shame we try to hide

You still can hear them crying Along "The Trail Of Tears" If you listen with your heart And not with just your ears

The Never Ending Trail by Del Abe Jones is a poem that describes what happened throughout the Trail of Tears. The American ambition for gold was stronger then the nation's feelings which lead the Cherokees to be kicked out of their lands and go on a march thousands of miles long. In the poem it says "If you listen with your heart and not with your years" (Jones) meaning that during that period of time President Andrew Jackson should have let the Cherokees stay in their lands even though that meant that he would have to find another place to dig for gold. At the time everyone but the supreme court thought it was good idea to kick the Cherokees out of their lands, but if those people could walk in the Cherokee's shoes today, they would see the hell they went through, and how in the end it wasn't worth picking gold over people.

__Paragraph 2:__ CLOSING-- How did the event impact the debate on the argument? POST PARAGRAPH HERE The poem "The Never Ending Trail" is a fairly recent poem so it really hasn't had much impact on the 1838 Trail of Tears but if it were to have an impact on the people a hundred years ago, they would have regretted their cruel attitude towards the Cherokees. People back then chose to dig for gold and kick the Cherokees out of their lands instead of looking for another place to dig for gold, which resulted in the death of hundreds of Cherokees let alone how many families that were split apart and how many people have to live ill for the rest of their lives. Of course that wasn't the only time when the majority abused and mistreated the minority groups, it was just "one more tragic ending" (Jones). So even though some minority groups might end up working their way out of something terrible like the Cherokee trail of tears, their footprints will always stay in the past to show how often times minorities are mistreated by majority groups.

Works Cited Boggs, John D. “Along The Trail of Tears.” Boy’s Life 94.2 (2004): 30. eLibrary. Web. 3 Oct. 2011. .

Boudinot, Elias. “Jacksonian Era Founder of the Native American Press.” American Journalists: Getting the Story (Dec. 1997):. Web. 3 Oct. 2011. .

Bowman, Rex. “1838: The Trail of Tears.” The New York Times (Jan. 2005): n. pag. eLibrary. Web. 3 Oct. 2011. .

Ross, John. “Cherokee Leader.” North American Indians (Dec. 1996): n. pag. Web. 3 Oct. 2011. . An outstanding product will. •showcase a work that expresses a profound idea about your event and the argument surrounding it Why do you think this incident inspired a contemporary poet? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•be the **best** example available, not simply the first one you find <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•demonstrate your ability to interpret the meaning of the literary or artistic piece <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Read the line you quoted again, can you clarify the meaning a bit? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•use the extended power paragraph format as a means to express your understanding of the event, argument, and how art literature and art <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">can reveal emotions and ideas <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">I like your connection to other groups that have suffered in the name of American greed <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•reference sources accurately <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•mechanics are clean and effective <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Poem titles in italics
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