Time Line of Cherokee Removal

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Time Line of Cherokee Removal

• 1785 Treaty of Hopewell- First treaty between
  Cherokees and the United States
• 1791 Treaty proposes the civilization program
• 1827 Cherokees write a constitution
• 1831 In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, the U.S
  Supreme Court declares the Cherokee Nation a
  domestic dependent nation
• 1838-39 Removal of the Cherokee Nation

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• Cherokee Language and Nationalism

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Cherokee Cultural Change

• The goal was to convert Indians into white
  people
• Its was believed that the Indians culture was a
  result of them not knowing better
• In other words, Indians inferiority was
  cultural not racial

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United States Civilization Program

• England had owned the American colonies by right
  of discovery, a concept that gave Christian
  European governments the right to claim and
  occupy the lands of non-Christian and
  uncivilized people
• After the revolutionary war the United States
  won, by right of conquest, Englands rights,
  which includes sovereign authority over all the
  land and people within its domain.

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Cherokee Language

• Early 1820s writing system developed by Sequoyah
• 1828 Cherokee nation began publishing the
  Cherokee Phoenix

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Cherokee Today

• Eastern Band
• Benefits of Casinos

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Thursday, December 2nd

• Chad Smith, current principal chief of the
  Western Cherokees, is coming to UNC on Thursday,
  Dec. 2. He will speak in 116 Murphy Hall at 4pm.

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Works Cited

• Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee
  Removal. Boston St. Martins Press, 1995.
• http//ngeorgia.com/history/trailoftearsmap2.html
• http//college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/
  html/na_006500_cherokee.htm
• http//www.rosecity.net/tears/
• http//ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html