Cherokee Indians

Considering how poorly treated the Cherokee were by colonists in georgia and other surrounding states, the Cherokee could hardly be defined as killing "so many" colonists.

Colonists who were killed included those who broke treaties and senate laws and forced settled Cherokee indian villagers to leave their land, killing Cherokee indians in their homes. Colonists refused Cherokee accesss to education, hassled their church (christian) contacts and services, and behaved like traitorous rednecks, as maybe their current descendents do now.

For all the grief the colonists gave the Cherokeee, the Cherokee took very little opportunities to exact revenge, and never attacked colonists without reason - in fact many in the southern areas were intermarrying with white colonists.

Read Daniel Blake Smith (2011) An American Betrayal - Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears. New York, Henry Holt publishers,

ISBN 978-0-8050-8955-0.

It was a forced march by our Government. Many starved to death.

Your best bet is the link below to get as detailed an answer as possible or as specific as you want. Keep in mind however , that Native American Indians are known to have flourished in the area where this discaceful display of inhumanity took place...We really don't know how long the original Americans had been here prior to European invasions, but that speaks to the Indian way of life and their views and useage of the land that gave them life...We have diffiiculty even finding traces of where they have been, because they left so little behind...in contrast, European and other cultures (Asian, middle eastern etc) have basically ruined a pristine county in an eyeblink of time as compared to the American Indians...it's also important to understand that they were equally intelligent and as advanced as any culture, but viewed this world, the land, its resources and other humans in a completely different way than the people with guns, hatred and fear in their hearts...because it was different from the way they had been taught. I think they would have accepted John Lennon and he would have enjoyed their company as well...but then he's dead too..huh?...hmmm...

please look at the link below for quality, specific info on the Cherokee Indians and the very real history of 'The trail of tears'...Good luck in your research...Sir Vertual

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No thought was given to the welfare of the Cherokee...they were non-persons. The government soldiers would appear without warning at a Cherokee front door and order the people inside the home, men women and children, to immediately vacate and take only what each could carry. They were forced marched to hastily constructed stockades like cattle and left to wait until all other Cherokee (not ONLY Cherokee) were thought to have been 'apprenended' and were then forced marched to the Mississippi River where they were ferried across into "Indian Territory" (generally Oklahoma). Many thousands died on this march due to starvation, cold, heat, disease and broken hearts.

There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:

• Abnaki, Eastern
• Achumawi
• Afro-Seminole Creole
• Ahtena
• Alabama
• Aleut
• Alsea
• Angloromani
• Apache, Jicarilla
• Apache, Kiowa
• Apache, Lipan
• Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
• Apache, Western
• Arapaho
• Arikara
• Assiniboine
• Atakapa
• Atsugewi
• Barbare

why were the English settlers willing to fight for the land they wanted?

Reply to answer: YOU ASKED A STUPID QUESTION FOR YOUR REPLY!!!!!!!!!

This question was first answered by Francisco Victoria in 1532 "Of Indians and Lawful War (De Indis De Jure Beli). The simple answer is that Yes, they (native Americans) owned all lands in North America at the time of that treaty as well as all others. By international law they still own all those lands because the United States has violated the terms of the treaties and the treaty of Montevideo.

The long answer is: Four main legal issues were presented in this dissertation:

1. Discovery
2. Divine Provenience of King or God
3. Treaties
4. Lawful War

Discovery, was absurd as discovery implies that land was found upon which no one lived or no one claimed prior to discovery. Because the natives were in place at the time they were discovered, no discovery occurred except by those natives.

Divine Provenience, taken in two sections:

A) Since the natives did not know of any kings or their countries they could not therefore be a subject of said country, and;

B) Since they also knew nothing of the Pope's divinity, or the god upon which it was claimed, they therefore were also not subject to the church, and so;

No claim can be made upon the natives that they or their lands were subject to king or god absent their knowing, intentional, and willing subjection to such.

Lawful War occurs only in the rarest of circumstance where the whole of the people have violated the international rules of traders (merchants) upon those lands, subject to the provisions that such merchants complied with the law of the lands upon which they traveled. Without these conditions no action exists for a lawful war with the exception of the natives in conflict with the Spanish. Those natives that adhere to capture and execution of other natives for religious reasons violate the law of man.

Treaty, absent the willing subjection of the natives, the lands which they own and govern may only be taken by a just and willing treaty between the parties.

Please note the language used herein is translated and modernized.