Essay On Cherokee Removal

The decision made by the Jackson administration to remove the Natives changed the social treatment towards the Natives from bad to worse, there was economic continuations of wanting to pursue a “peace policy” while taking the Natives land, and the political policies continued to try to “civilize”, assimilate, and/ or make peace with the Natives. The decision made by the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to the land west of the Mississippi in the 1830’s did not affect the economic, and political continuations of policies; however, there were social changes pursued by the colonies and the United States towards the American Indian tribes. Nearly ninety years apart, there was an economic continuation and social
On July 2nd 1791 at the Treaty of Holston, the Treaty Negotiator for the United States Government said, “That the Cherokee Nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in a state of hunters”. The treaty negotiator for the United States wanted to "civilize" and assimilate the Native Americans. On December 18, 1829 during President Andrew Jackson’s First Annual Message to Congress he said, “It has long been the policy of the government to introduce among them the arts of civilization, in the hopes of gradually reclaiming them from a wandering life.” Andrew Jackson, like the treaty negotiator, says the government was attempting to “civilize” and assimilate the Natives. During the 1870’s, Francis Amasa Walker, the commissioner of Indian affairs said, “ the government should pursue a “peace policy” - buy off and feed the Indians in order to avoid violent conflicts” (231). The Treaty Negotiator for the United States Government and the commissioner of Indian affairs, both white, male, individuals of political power, with the intentions of trying to “civilize”, assimilate, or make peace with the