util 1830 the cherokees had done more to adjust to european americans expectations than any other group of indians. describe the cherokee attempts to what factors doomed the cherokees to failure in a nation that described them as a civilized tribe

Running Head : CHEROKEE INDIANS

The Trail of Tears : Cherokee Indians in Georgia

The history of the United States is not flawless and pure . It has some moments where sadly , injustice prevailed . Fortunately , those instances of injustice had somehow helped people realize that justice needed to be done . One of such blemishes in American history is the relocation of the Cherokee Indians from their original lands to the Western United States The pain , death , and suffering that resulted from such relocation would later be called the Trail of Tears ' Before the relocation though

br the Cherokee Indians did everything they could to stay in their homelands while accommodating the demands of the European American settlers

The Cherokee Indians are Native American people . Their tribe , which is the largest Native American tribe in the entire US , is called the Cherokee Nation . Most Cherokees live today in northeastern Oklahoma where they ended up after their forced relocation . A smaller group of Cherokees lives in a reservation in North Carolina , near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park . The term Cherokee ' may have been derived from a Muskogean word that refers to people of a different speech . The Muskogean language is composed of indigenous languages in the Southeastern United States . It may have also come from a Choctaw word that means cave people (Petra Press , 2001 ,

.5-6 ) The Choctaw are another group of Native Americans in the Southeastern US

The Cherokee were once a powerful tribe with members who dwelled and hunted in vast stretches...