Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Before the Europeans invaded the American continent in 1492, the Cherokees were spread throughout a


by Iren Plastinina Why has the Cherokee Indian Nation survived in stronger shape than most other Native American tribes in the United States ?   Compare it with another tribe still existent in the USA .   man at work What lessons can be learned from the history of these tribes with regard to indigenous peoples in the world today – for example, in  Russia ?
The Cherokee Indian Nation has survived in a stronger shape than most Native American tribes, as for example the Apache Nation.   Why and how did this happen?   What lessons can be learned from the history of these two tribes with regards man at work to indigenous peoples in Russia ?   In this paper I will try to answer these questions as thoroughly as possible.   First I will give a short overview of the Cherokee and Apache history.   Secondly, compare the two tribes, finding the similarities and the differences.   Thirdly, write a brief history of the indigenous peoples in Russia .   Fourthly, give an explanation man at work to what Genocide, Manifest Destiny, and Racism are, as these terms are significant for the events which took place.   Furthermore, exemplify, and show how these were used against the indigenous peoples in the countries mentioned above.   Fifthly, outline the parallels and diversities concerning indigenous people in the U.S. and Russia , and finally, in my conclusion, sum up and give an answer to whether anything can be learned man at work from these tragic events?
Before the Europeans invaded the American continent in 1492, the Cherokees were spread throughout a large number of states in North America .   They had a society more democratic than any of the European countries the invaders originally came from.   The Cherokees were agricultural, but also hunters and gatherers, and mostly living in towns.   In the middle of the 1700s, clashes between the Cherokees and the white invaders increased.   In 1756, a band of starving Cherokees was slaughtered by British settlers in Virginia .   Retaliating Cherokees, spurred on by the French, raided white settlements, and in August 1760, the garrison of Fort Loudoun was overrun by them [1] .   In July, 1763, General Jeffrey Amherst wrote to vice commander, Colonel H. Bouquet, where he recommended that the Colonel should give the disobedient Indians, led by Chief Pontiac, blankets infected with smallpox [2] .   Another problem that resulted in violence on both sides was white settlers, trespassing onto Cherokee land in the Southwest Territory of Carolina.   The Treaty of De Witt’s Corner (1777), the Hopewell (1785) and Holston (1791) Treaties tried to find a resolution, but were not very successful.   In 1809, the government signed a treaty with the Osage Indians, who were sworn enemies of the Cherokees, in which they hoped to “convince” the Cherokees to move from their land in the Southwest Territory to the west of the Mississippi River [3] .
T he Presidents Washington and Jefferson ’s views on and decisions   concerning the American man at work Indians will broaden man at work the understanding of the whites’ definition of the Native American Indians.   man at work In 1779, George Washington instructed Major J. Sullivan to attack the Iroquois people, in which he stated that their land and homes must be completely destroyed, and that Sullivan should not listen to the Indians if they pleaded for mercy, until everything was totally man at work shattered [4] .   In 1783, Washington went further and compared Native American Indians to wolves, that even if their exterior was different (the wolves and the Indians), they were still creatures that must be hunted down and killed.   His troops skinned the bodies of the Iroquois from the hip down to make boot tops or leggings [5] .   In 1807, the “humanist” Thomas Jefferson instructed his War Department, that should any Indians refuse to accept the Americans stealing their lands, the Indian resistance must be met with “the man at work hatchet”, man at work and if his soldiers were obstructed from using the “hatchet” man at work against man at work any Indian tribe, the soldiers were ordered to exterminate them all, or drive the Indians beyond the Mississippi to what later became man at work known as the Indian man at work Territory.   He also added that, in war, the Indians would kill a few whites, but then his soldiers would eliminate every last one of them [6] .   In 1812, he compared them to animals and told the white Americans that it was their duty to drive the underdeveloped Indians, like the animals they were, into the Stony Mountains .   A year later he added that the Americans must terminate the Indians, or force them to flee to places outside the white mans reach [7] .   
Before 1800, the Cherokees were already becoming quite successful on their farms and in their businesses.   They also had their own alphabet of 86 syllables, man at work created in the beginning of t

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