Eagerly, I Pick Up A Newspaper From The Corner Store. On The Cover An Article Re

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Term Paper Title	Eagerly, I Pick Up A Newspaper From The Corner Store. On The Cover An Article Re
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Eagerly, I pick up a Newspaper from the corner store.  On the cover an article reads “INDIAN REMOVAL COMPLETED” Unbidden memories come to mind, and I remember seeing the Indian tribe known as the Cherokee march through my town.  I saw weak and fatigued people forced to walk across almost 3 states to their new home that they have never seen before.  The combined impact of being physically tortured and starved, and the emotional pain of being uprooted from land they’ve owned for generation, was too much to bear.  Recently I read a statement written by Private John G. Burnett of Captain Abraham McClellan's Company. “I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west.... On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snowstorm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure...” I realize now that I can believe in these horrible images only because I have witnessed them first hand.  I remember the time before Andrew Jackson had supported the legislation to remove the Indians.

The common American belief was that Indians were savages and treated them harshly and degraded them.  Jackson believed that there was only two ways that Indians could live peacefully and equally among the whites.  One way was if the Indians adopted the white ways, by owning and running small farms.  The other was removal, which eliminated the problem of having whites and Indians co-exist.  Because most Indians didn’t want to adjust to being like whites, Jackson opted for the second option, removal.

The Cherokees were different from most other Indian tribes.  After contact with the whites, the Cherokees were partially assimilated into the white culture. They formed a government and a society that was very similar to many “civilized” countries. They built European-style homes, had European-style fields and farms, established a newspaper, and wrote a constitution. But dispute these changes toward Am...

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