ESPM 50AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: European Colonialism, Green Corn Ceremony, Laxative
16 Nov 2016
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The effects of removal on american indian tribes. Removal of american indian tribes from lands east of the mississippi. Mostly to assure that lucrative fur trade would continue without interruption. Migratory hunters who only followed the game and had no attachment to any particular lands. Ignored the fact that tribes in se raised significant crops of corn. Stereotypes of indians as hostile, savage, wandering people. Spent time and money teaching indians to live with their white neighbors and accept christianity. Act passed by a one vote margin in september 1830. Choctaw, cherokee, chickasaw, creeks and semionles signed treaties agreeing to leave their homes in the se and move west. Travels marked by outbreaks of cholera, inadequate supplies, cold, starvation and exhaustion. Choctaw, chickasaw, cherokee, creek and seminole tribes lived originally in area of mississippi, alabama, georgia, tennessee and north. Territory in present-day mississippi extended from the mississippi dela.
