The Trail Of Tears
Beginning of paper
"We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth… it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood…we bid farewell to it and ....
Middle of paper
.... hundred of their best warriors. It was in this war that the Cherokee fought side by side with Jackson. After a treaty in 1814 was forced upon the Creek Indians, the Cherokees filed claims for their losses. There was no promise that their claims would be acknowledged. In the end, this alliance would bring about one of the most devastating betrayals the Cherokee Nation would know – coming in the guise of Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson demanded the concession of twenty-three million acres ....
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