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At the end of December , the government warned Cherokee that the clause in the Treaty of New Echota requiring that they should "remove to their new homes within two years from the ratification of the treaty" would be enforced.
Winfield Scott to get the job done. On May 10, , General Scott issued the following proclamation:. The President of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you, in obedience to the Treaty of , to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity, on the other side of the Mississippi.
The full moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman and child. Federal troops and state militias began to move the Cherokees into stockades. In spite of warnings to troops to treat them kindly, the roundup proved harrowing. A missionary described what he found at one of the collection camps in June:. The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners.
They have been dragged from their houses, and encamped at the forts and military posts, all over the nation. In Georgia, especially, multitudes were allowed no time to take any thing with them except the clothes they had on.
Well-furnished houses were left prey to plunderers, who, like hungry wolves, follow in the trail of the captors. These wretches rifle the houses and strip the helpless, unoffending owners of all they have on earth. Three groups left in the summer, traveling from present-day Chattanooga by rail, boat, and wagon, primarily on the water route, but as many as 15, people still awaited removal.
Sanitation was deplorable. Food, medicine, clothing, even coffins for the dead, were in short supply. Water was scarce and often contaminated. Diseases raged through the camps. Many died. Those travelling over land were prevented from leaving in August due to a summer drought. The first detachments set forth only to find no water in the springs and they returned back to their camps. The remaining Cherokees asked to postpone removal until the fall.
The delay was granted, provided they remain in the camps until travel resumed. The Army also granted John Ross's request that the Cherokees manage their own removal. The government provided wagons, horses, and oxen; Ross made arrangements for food and other necessities. In October and November, 12 detachments of 1, men, women, children, including more than slaves, set off on an mile-journey overland to the west.
Five thousand horses, and wagons, each drawn by 6 horses or mules, went along. Each group was led by a respected Cherokee leader and accompanied by a doctor, and sometimes a missionary.
Those riding in the wagons were usually only the sick, the aged, children, and nursing mothers with infants. The northern route, chosen because of dependable ferries over the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a well-travelled road between the two rivers, turned out to be the more difficult. Heavy autumn rains and hundreds of wagons on the muddy route made roads nearly impassable; little grazing and game could be found to supplement meager rations.
Two-thirds of the Cherokees were trapped between the ice-bound Ohio and Mississippi rivers during January. A traveler from Maine happened upon one of the caravans in Kentucky:. We found the road literally filled with the procession for about three miles in length. The sick and feeble were carried in waggons.
Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave Old Nation. Women cry and made sad wails. Children cry and many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West.
Many days pass and people die very much. In , Robert K. Thomas, a professor of anthropology from the University of Chicago and an elder in the Cherokee tribe, told the following story to a few friends:. Let me tell you this. My grandmother was a little girl in Georgia when the soldiers came to her house to take her family away. The soldiers were pushing her family away from their land as fast as they could.
She ran back into the house before a soldier could catch her and grabbed her [pet] goose and hid it in her apron. Her parents knew she had the goose and let her keep it. When she had bread, she would dip a little in water and slip it to the goose in her apron.
Well, they walked a long time, you know. A long time. Some of my relatives didn't make it. It was a bad winter and it got really cold in Illinois. But my grandmother kept her goose alive. One day they walked down a deep icy gulch and my grandmother could see down below her a long white road.
No one wanted to go over the road, but the soldiers made them go, so they headed across. When my grandmother and her parents were in the middle of the road, a great black snake started hissing down the river, roaring toward the Cherokees. The road rose up in front of her in a thunder and came down again, and when it came down all of the people in front of her were gone, including her parents.
My grandmother said she didn't remember getting to camp that night, but she was with her aunt and uncle. Out on the white road she had been so terrified, she squeezed her goose hard and suffocated it in her apron, but her aunt and uncle let her keep it until she fell asleep.
During the night they took it out of her apron. On March 24, , the last detachments arrived in the west. Some of them had left their homeland on September 20, No one knows exactly how many died during the journey. Missionary doctor Elizur Butler, who accompanied one of the detachments, estimated that nearly one fifth of the Cherokee population died.
The trip was especially hard on infants, children, and the elderly. An unknown number of slaves also died on the Trail of Tears. Questions for Reading 3 1. What is the tone of General Scott's message to the Cherokees? Would you have tried to resist the removals after hearing Scott's message?
What happened to the Cherokee between May and October of ? What was life like for the Cherokee during that period? With little time to plan and prepare, 17, Cherokee with their possessions, horses, and wagons moved from their homelands to Oklahoma. This type of mass migration was unprecented in the early 19th century. What sort of arrangements would be needed to prepare for and carry out such a mass movement of people?
If you were given a short amount of time to leave your home and move to an unknown place, how would you feel? What would you take with you? What do you think would have been the worst part of the entire removal process? Do you think Robert Thomas's story about his grandmother is based on a real event? What do the students think the white road represented? In oral traditions, the speaker often "telescopes" historical time, collapsing one or more generations.
Do you think the woman in Thomas's account was really his grandmother? Is that important? Do you think the story was intended as factual history? If not, what was it intended to record? The two windows to the left of the front door were part of the earliest part of this house, a log cabin of two rooms separated by an open breezeway. By the time of the relocation, Major Ridge had enlarged the cabin into a fine house, with eight rooms, 30 glass windows, four brick fireplaces, and paneling in the parlor.
The two one-story wings were added in the 20th century. Questions for Photo 1 1. This house was part of a acre plantation farmed by about 30 slaves. The property also included a ferry, a store, and a toll road, all sources of considerable wealth. In what ways does the house demonstrate that Major Ridge was a rich man?
Do you think that was the impression he intended to create? Can you see any features that might indicate that this house was built by a Cherokee? In what ways do you think the design of the house reflects Ridge's attitudes towards accommodation to white society? It consists of two rooms on each floor separated by a central breezeway, now enclosed, and was built in the s by John Ross's grandfather. Ross lived here with his grandparents as a boy and the house later served as a headquarters for the enterprises that made him a rich man.
The property also included a large farm, worked by slaves. Ross also owned a supply depot and warehouse at Ross's Landing now in Chattanooga.
Questions for Photo 2 1. Before it was enlarged, Major Ridge's house probably looked much like this house. Does the Ross house look like the home of a rich man? Why do you suppose he moved there? In , Ross returned from a trip to Washington to find that his plantation had been taken over by Georgia whites who had won it in the lottery for Cherokee land.
He moved back into this house, where he stayed until removal. How do you think he would have felt returning to his old home under these circumstances? Courtesy of Charles O. Walker, artist This illustration shows the homestead of Lying Fish, located in a relatively remote valley in northern Georgia. In the early s, Lying Fish's homestead included a 16 by 14 foot log house with a wooden chimney, another house of the same size, a corn crib, a stable, 19 acres of cleared bottom land, of which six were on the creek, 30 peach trees and 3 apple trees.
Questions for Illustration 1 1. Most Cherokees lived on small farms like this. Compare the house shown here with the Ridge and Ross houses. How do they differ? How are they alike? How does the farm compare with what you know about the farms of Major Ridge and John Ross? Cherokees living on farms like this rarely had white ancestors and were unlikely to speak English. How do you think that might affect their attitudes towards adopting some of the white cultural and agricultural practices?
How might it affect their attitude towards the Treaty of New Echota? Rattlesnake Springs was one of the stockade camps where Cherokees were initially collected after being forced off of their land. It is located in the far southeastern corner of Tennessee, near the North Carolina border.
The farm buildings shown in this recent view would not have been there in Questions for Photo 3 1. There were Cherokees camped at Rattlesnake Springs in July , waiting to leave for the west. Why do you think the U. Army might have located a camp here?
There were more than 4, Cherokees waiting at camps in this general area before relocation. How difficult do you think it would have been to provide food and supplies for such a large group in a sparsely populated rural area? The final Council of the eastern Cherokees was held at Rattlesnake Springs.
Lamentations were pronounced and the Council determined to continue their old constitution and laws in the new land. Why do you think it was important to the Cherokees to do these things before leaving for the west? Questions for Photo 4 1. This photo shows a segment of road believed to have been used during the Cherokee removal of How do you think this road would have looked after hundreds of wagons, and thousands of people, horses, and oxen had passed over it?
What can you learn from looking at this roadway that you did not learn from the readings? What do you think you could learn by actually being on the road? This trail segment has survived because it is used as a private farm road. Do you think it should be preserved unchanged? Do you think it would be a good idea to have a historic marker identifying it as part of the Trail of Tears?
What advantages and disadvantages might that have? By reading "The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation" students will appreciate the pressures working to force the Cherokees off their homelands and the painful divisions those pressures created within the tribe itself. The following activities will help them apply what they have learned. Miller, Paiute woman grinding seeds in doorway of thatched hut, small boy in foreground.
Photographed by Gardin, Two Taos women baking bread in outside oven, New Mexico. T Cory, Paiute children playing game called wolf and deer, northern Arizona. Hillers, October Four Nuaguntit Paiutes gambling, southwestern Nevada. Original Caption: Eskimo group. Eskimo group of 11 men, women, and children dressed in fur, Port Clarence, Alaska.
Photographed by William Dinwiddie, Knik Chief Nikaly and family near Anchorage, Alaska. Man and woman of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. Winema or Tobey Riddle, a Modoc, standing between an agent and her husband Frank on her left , with four Modoc women in front.
Photographed by Eadweard Muybridge, Shoshoni at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. Last photograph of Chief Washakie, who is on the extreme left, standing and pointing, Two Tlingit women with several children near the Kotsina River, Alaska. Original Caption: Bannack indians. Apache rancheria with two men holding rifles.
Photographed by Camillus S. Family of Bannocks in front of a grass tent, Idaho. Photographed by William H. Jackson, Summer skin tent with an old Eskimo woman in foreground, Point Barrow, Alaska.
Supai Charlie standing in front of his ha-wa, Havasu Canyon. Dancers' Rock, Walpi, Arizona, part of a Hopi pueblo; picturing three Hopi people, ladders, and utensils.
Interior of a Navajo hogan on a New Mexico reservation. Photographed by D. Griffiths, September 13, Joseph Matthews, Osage council member, author, historian, and Rhodes scholar, seated at home in front of his fireplace, Oklahoma. Kelley, December 16, Photographed by Clement Powell, October 4, Pawnee lodges at Loup, Nebraska, with a family standing in front of a lodge entrance.
Gabe Gobin, an Indian logger, in front of his home. Tulalip Reservation, Washington. Photographed by Lee Muck, Little Big Mouth, a medicine man, seated in front of his lodge near Fort Sill, Oklahoma, with medicine bag visible from behind the tent. Blackfoot Indians chasing buffalo, Three Buttes, Montana. Artwork by John M. Stanley, Eskimos harpooning a whale, Point Barrow, Alaska.
An Uainuint Paiute aiming a rifle, southwestern Utah. Big Soldier Wahktageli , a Dakota chief; full-length, standing. Artwork by Karl Bodmer, May Black Beaver, a Delaware born in Illinois in ; half-length. Captain Jack Kintpuash , a Modoc subchief, executed October 3, ; bust-length, full-face.
Photographed by Louis Heller, Crow King, a Hunkpapa Sioux; half-length, wearing part of a major's uniform. Photographed by David F. Barry at Fort Buford, North Dakota, ca. Curley Bear Car-io-scuse , a Blackfoot Siksika chief; half-length, dressed in ermines. Photographed by DeLancey Gill, Halftone of photograph.
Photographed by Bennett Thayer, Four Bears Mato-Tope , a Mandan chief; full- length, standing, holding lance and wearing a painted and quilled shirt. Gall Pizi, Gaul , a Hunkpapa Sioux; three-quarter- length, seated.
Barry, Geronimo Goyathlay , a Chiricahua Apache; full-length, kneeling with rifle. Photographed by Ben Wittick, Joseph Hinmaton-Yalatkit , Nez Perce'chief; full- length, standing. Jackson, before Kicking Bird Tene'-angp6te , a Kiowa chief and grandson of a Crow captive;three-quarter-length, seated.
Lone Wolfe Guipago , a Kiowa chief; half-length, seated. Looking Glass, a Nez Perce' chief, on horseback in front of a tepee. Photograph, Manuelito, a Navajo chief; full-length, seated. Artwork by E.
Miner, Cpl. George, a Winnebago from Tomah, Wisconsin; standing, with rifle, on guard duty, Niederahren, Germany. Photographed by Lt. Nathaniel L. Dewell, U. Army Signal Corps, January 2, Nana Nanay , a Chiricahua Apache subchief; full- length, seated. Oseola As-se-he-ho-lor, Black Drink , a Seminole; bust-length.
Artwork by George Catlin, ca. Ouray the Arrow , a Southern Ute chief; bust-length. Pacer Peso, Essa-queta , a Kiowa-Apache chief; half-length, seated, wearing earrings. Paliwahtiwa, Governor of Zuni; full-length, seated. Poison, a Cheyenne woman almost years old; full-length, seated, Quanah Parker, a Kwahadi Comanche chief; full-length, standing in front of tent. Photographed by Lanney. Rain-in-the-Face, a Hunkpapa Sioux; bust-length, full-face, wearing feathered headdress.
Photograph taken at Fort Yates, North Dakota, Rocky Boy Stone Child , a Chippewa chief; three-quarter length, standing, dressed in ornate costume. Scar-faced Charley Chikchikam Lupatkue-latko , a Modoc; bust-length.
Army captain's bars, Sitting Bear Satank, Set-angya , a Kiowa chief; half-length, seated. Barry, ca. Umapine Wakonkonwelasonmi , a Cayuse chief; full-length, standing, wearing a feathered headdress. Halftone of photograph by Joseph K. Dixon, September Washakie Shoots-the-Buffalo-Running , a Shoshoni chief; half-length, seated, holding pipe. White Bear Sa-tan-ta , a Kiowa chief; full-length, seated, holding bow and arrows.
Trager, January 17, Chief Powder Face of the Arapaho; standing full-length, wearing war costume. Pehriska-Ruhpa; full-length, standing, in the costume of the Dog Band of the Hidatsa. Hopi man having hair dressed by his squaw. Two Mohave braves dressed in loincloths; full- length, standing, western Arizona. Photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan,
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