Indian Removal

"Why do we have to go mama?" said the young Cherokee child. "Because, we are not welcomed my child" said the mother.

I remember the day I asked my mother that very question and she replierd with a saddened look upon her face. I did not understand then but I do now! Andrew Jackson does not like us Indians! He is the one who started this whole Indian Removal Act of 1830. When Mama told me we had to move out West, I cried until I could cry no more. I couldn't stand the thought of leaving my home that I have known all this time! We eventually did leave through, just not in the way I imagined, the Americans took us out of our homes with only our homes with only our clothes on our back. We had to leave most of our belongings and most of the stuff we did have the Americans soldiers took away from us!

Then came the walking...we marched and marched and marched until the cruel Americans let us rest for no more thann seconds. We marched thousands of miles across great Earth. Four thousand of the Cherokee began this "Trail of Tears" with were already long gone; Men, women, and children died during our journey. By 1840 all Eastern triebes had been subdued, annihilated, or forcibly removed from Indian Territory west of the MIssissippi River.

Now I understand the true reason for our long journey--Americans are truly jealous, cruel, and greedy people.

E.Q.
A nation ia a cul;tural or social community. To be a member of a nation you must share a common identity and usually a common origin. A nation is like a clock, there are many parts working together to make that clock's hand's move back and forth, and like that clock a nation must work together to become one or everything will fall apart. To be a nation is to work as a team, there is no "I" in team so no one can be self-centered.