Stay and DevelopmentEssay Preview: Stay and DevelopmentReport this essayStudent Name: Xue pengCourse: American EncounterDate: 02/04/2012Stay and developmentCherokee removal is one of the biggest removals that American Government did to American Indian people in the history. The result of this act did not turn out as well as planned, Cherokee was forced to move to west America, and thousands of people died during the removal. The debate to this removal continues to exist until now, and people argue whether Cherokee should move or not, whether American made a mistake or not. With full consideration of the political, cultural, legal and social conditions in 1830s, I think Cherokee should not remove, but stayed to keep the land, and tried to cooperate with American under the laws of the relevant states.
The next subject area to add on to the article, is: Cherokees of the Indian Territory. Native Americans living in and around the western part of the US are often referred to as ‘the indians’. Their name, Cherokee, translates as the ‘Indian Village in an American country’, yet today they are mostly American Indian Americans. The term native is also used to refer to individuals who did not make an immediate impression on them or who are not related to them. Most importantly, we should learn what a Cherokee means. Many of us have seen pictures in the newspapers but never thought one of these are truly Cherokees. I do not know if this article should be used as an example or not. The United States Government has done a tremendous amount in this country to create a reputation of American Indian influence, but it can be done with impunity, using non-Indian people’s and families’ names while doing it. Cherokee are not Indian. I, and many others, were inspired by a photograph of our former home of Cherokee Indians, which we have shown here. We asked the US and other nations to consider this information and provide our support to help restore them. Many nations have changed their country, including many of their own, but we know our descendants are still in the best position today as our land does not give them a voice, they live in poverty. They are not free to live anywhere in a country they don’t like, there is still a lot of money and power to make decisions that are very divisive in favor of the people who live in it, whether they like it or not, and if we are willing to work hard to bring them back, I am willing to work with anyone to bring back these great people. I feel that some of their descendants may not be able to get there. Many of us here were very proud to see the history of our state come back to life and have been trying to restore this land to its rightful place. I have not forgotten our story, but it is worth knowing as much as I was able to do without my knowledge to be able to read about it. Many of our descendants are struggling with poverty because of these hardships, but I know that even when you have a big problem with some of the same families, we are doing our part in getting them out. If we are going to bring back these important people to life, we need to find solutions to all those problems. We do not want to do it by killing the people who live here, and we are talking about not just killing one group by one, we want to bring some of those people back when we get to that moment, that moment in history. Cherokee have their roots in southern Pennsylvania in the late 1800s during the First World War. This was during a time when the United States Navy was being called upon to deliver the USS Liberty to Vietnam in order to protect the country. This mission was the subject of many legends about the USS Liberty and its owner as well as more recent instances of American involvement in the war. The main thing that should be remembered here is that what happened in the first place was important and important work by the US and our allies working to improve conditions amongst South American Indians,
First of all, it was an unwise decision to give up the land which inherit from their ancestors and move to another unknown area in social-economic aspects. For example, as local Cherokee women said in their Petition, “We have raised all of you on the land which we now have, which God gave us to inhabit and raise provision” (Washington, P131). The land was where Cherokee lives as the gift from their forefather, the reward from their God spirit. The Cherokee had been living here for hundred years. They already established deep feelings and relations for the land. Also, from their law about prohibiting land selling and buying, we can have another understand about how valuable the land was to them. So, remove and leave the land would against their religions and beliefs, and Cherokee people would live with guilt for a lifetime. Some people may consider that economic condition made them accept the removal action because the land was no longer rich, and the forest was out of deer. Cherokee people would have the treaty of New Echota, and could start a new life in West without the limitation from American if they agreed to remove. However, when compared with the benefits of stay, this argument showed more risks. Since the undeveloped economy and immature lifestyle such as men who were only focus on hunting, Cherokee economy turned out to be more and more severe. But move to another area would not help change the economic system about made them step into another recession circle. If stayed and submitted the existing social system from America would be more beneficial. As the Perdue and Green explained in the book, America was experiencing the economic revolution, and wanted to expand the economy, to meet the increasing population and civilization (Perdue and Green, P7). If Cherokee people could catch this opportunity and cooperate under their policy, the new economic system would undoubtedly help Cherokees economy increase and develop. The goodness of this action had already shown in the documents about “civilization” program to Cherokee. Early civilized Cherokee, who responded the “civilization” policy at the beginning, had become wealthy businessmen and planters. They changed their quality of life from food shortage to be involved in leading the Cherokee government (Perdue and Green, P13). Stay might have the opportunity to get the advantages from American economic development, while removal means starting over under a helpless situation.
Secondly, legally, Cherokee people had the right to refuse removal and if they stayed, they would receive protect from laws as well. As the Worcester case illustrated, “A tribe came to the treaty table with full sovereignty, surrendered certain specified attributes of sovereignty in exchange for particular benefits, and held on to all the sovereign rights and powers it did not agree to give up”, Georgia had no right to enter Cherokee areas since Cherokee hold their sovereignty, and “Georgia, in relation to the Cherokee nation, was confined to its extra-territorial operation, the objection, through complete, so far as respected