The Cherokee

Title: The Cherokee
Category: History
Details: Words: 1483 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Cherokee

The Cherokee’s first concession to the United States government regarding their territories came on November 28,1785 at Hopewell South Carolina. About one thousand Cherokee attended the signing of this treaty. Thirty-seven chiefs and principle men representing numerous Cherokee towns and groups signed the treaty. The first treaty would be a rehearsal for those to come. There would be considerable argument and contention regarding its terms from both the Cherokee and the whites that were in …showed first 75 words of 1483 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1483 total…people and, in fact, had shown considerable progress in taking on the ways of the whites who eventually surrounded and relocated them. To force these people to leave their ancestral land was more than just relocation for the Cherokee. It involved an adverse impact to almost every facet of their existence. Our dealing with the Cherokee people was a blemish on our nation’s history the likes of which we have yet to experience again.

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