Wasn’t ‘their own civil war’ an extention of the hard feelings between the ‘Trail of Tears’ people and the ones who came West earlier on their own?
yes it was.
his time liunes are getting all mixed up.
The cherokess as well as the other 5 nations of indians joined the south because they feared their land taken away from them and plus they had freedonm under the south.
The cherokees split after the trail of tears and we all know who forced that.
To a considerable extent. Most of the “early movers,” as I understand it, were more traditional and less tied into the southern slave-based economy. They therefore had less sympathy for the southern cause and tended to remain loyal to the Union.
They were in the minority, of course.
But I could be wrong on some of this. It’s been a long time since I read about it.