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The Cherokee removal (May 25, 1838 – 1839), part of the Indian removal, refers to the forced displacement of an estimated 15,500 Cherokees and 1,500 African-American slaves from the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to the West according to the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. [1]
Many died huddled together at Mantle Rock waiting to cross. Several Cherokee were murdered by locals. The Cherokee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government through the courthouse in Vienna, suing the government for $35 a head (equal to $1,001.44 today) to bury the murdered Cherokee. [1]
Chalk and Jonassohn assert that the deportation of the Cherokee tribe along the Trail of Tears would almost certainly be considered an act of genocide today. [69] The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the exodus. About 17,000 Cherokees, along with approximately 2,000 Cherokee-owned black slaves, were removed from their homes. [70]
Subsequent attacks around Charles Town killed many more, and in total, about 7% of the colony's white population perished in the conflict. 100+ (settlers) [99] 1715: May: Schenkingh Plantation: South Carolina: A band of Catawba and Cherokee warriors attacked Benjamin Schenkingh's plantation where about 20 settlers had taken refuge. All were ...
This relocation ordered by the government primarily targeted “the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole” nations [96] Approximately 100,000 native Americans were removed from their families and 15,000 died during the removal and journey west. [96] The journey west consisted of 5,045 miles across nine states. [96]
Most of the Cherokee later blamed the faction and the treaty for the tribe's forced relocation in 1838. [75] An estimated 4,000 Cherokee died in the march, which is known as the Trail of Tears. [76] Missionary organizer Jeremiah Evarts urged the Cherokee Nation to take its case to the US Supreme Court. [77]
The first known Cherokee contact with Europeans was in late May 1540, when a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto passed through Cherokee country near present-day Embreeville, Tennessee, which the Spaniards referred to as Guasili. [10] De Soto's expedition visited many of the villages later identified as Cherokee in Georgia and Tennessee.
Many other Native tribes were decimated as well. Smaller numbers of European settlers and Africans also died during the epidemic. [1] The depopulation after the epidemic caused the Cherokee to abandon many villages, particularly in Georgia along the Chattooga, Tugaloo, and Chattahoochee rivers. The Cherokee did not begin to recover from their ...