Native Americans: The American Progress

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Although the Native Americans are portrayed as the vicious Indians, as in the painting the ‘American Progress’. As-above we have direct quotes, one from the white men saying how the Indians were like wild beasts, and the others from Native Americans saying that all they wanted to do was live in peace, and that they were forced to fight and defend their homes.
The Cherokee, did refuse to leave their lands as Andrew Jackson wanted, and 15-16,000 members of the Cherokee tribe were forced by the military to relocate west of the Mississippi, during the winter 1838-1839. This forced march, came to be known as the `Trial of Tears‘, where over 3000 Cherokee lost their lives from hunger, exposure and disease.
An 1884 map of the land surrendered by the …show more content…
This again is a primary source from March 22nd, 1837.
“The suffering of the Cherokees was awful. The trial of the exiles was a trial of death. They had to sleep in their wagons and on the ground without fire. And I know as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure” This extract is taken from `A solder recalls the Trail of Tears’, The story of Private John G Burnett (1838-1839) This is a moving primary source of information, as the solder wrote the letter on his eightieth birthday, to his children to explain the full account of the Trial of …show more content…
I milk Ten cows twice a day all summer, have sold enough butter to pay for a year’s supply of flour and gasoline”. This is a letter dated January 23rd, 1913 from a Homesteader Elinore Stewart, it’s a Primary Source but again it can be questioned.
The American Progress painting shows the wagon, with the Oxen pulling along the flat terrain, this was not the case. The Donner Party were a group of American pioneers, who set of for California in a wagon train, they spent (1846-1847) mostly snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas. They were led by George Donner and James Reed. The rugged terrain, and difficulties that were encountered while travelling resulted in the loss of their wagons and cattle. Their food supply ran extremely low, and the group could not continue, they suggested that someone from the group should “volunteer to die to feed the others!”
As the snow blizzard got worse, people from the group started to die, hunger, thirst, hypothermia, and disease all played apart. The party were so hungry they knew the only way to survive was by eating the flesh from the
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