Cherokee Removal Summary

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The Complexity of the Cherokee Removal
In Theda Perdue and Michael Green’s book, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, they argue that, even though Native Americans were trying to be asserted to America’s society, America just wanted land, so the removal was going to happen anyways. Mainly the Cherokees were starting to adapt to the American ways. They started sending their children to school, converting from matrilineal lineage to patrilineal, and making a constitution fashioned like the Americans. In the end, whatever Cherokees or Native Americans did to try to redeem their rights, did not matter because the people from East of the Mississippi River wanted to remove the Indians so expansion could continue.
To start out, the government tried to buy the land from the Cherokees instead of trying to use force to acquire it. They sent American …show more content…
“Jackson wants to expand the US, and in order to do so, he has to get the Indians out of the way. He proposed to Congress that we remove the remaining Indians from the Eastern and Southern states so that slavery and northern expansion can continue” (Griffin, PP12, 10/19/15). No matter how hard Native Americans tried to be civilized, they just took the land that Natives lived on. “These groups had learned to coexist and adapt to white settlement. They spoke English, many dressed like whites, owned slaves. The Cherokees had a constitution and a written language now. In the past, their language was based on oral traditions. So, many fought back or refused to leave” (Griffin, PP12, 10/19/15). The Americans were becoming too impatient with Native Americans slow progress to evolving into Anglo-Americans society that they decided to just remove the Natives from their home forcefully, and not even care that Native Americans had done so much to try to co-exist with
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