The whole point was to establish their credentials as good citizens to prevent just the sort of tragedy the 1838 Trail of Tears became. Sort of like the old white guys in ObaMao's America who paid their taxes, fought our battles and kept our noses clean only to be told to get in the back of the bus because we are now a threat.
” The whole point was to establish their credentials as good citizens to prevent just the sort of tragedy the 1838 Trail of Tears became. Sort of like the old white guys in ObaMao’s America who paid their taxes, fought our battles and kept our noses clean only to be told to get in the back of the bus because we are now a threat. “
YOU get it!
[snip] Elias Boudinot, as Editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, which was published both in English and Cherokee and read in the East and Europe, captured the Cherokee situation in just a few words.
“Perhaps Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were only tantalizing us when they encouraged us in the pursuit of agriculture and government. Why were we not told long ago that we could not be permitted to establish a government within the limits of any state? The Cherokees have always had a government of their own. Nothing, however, was said when we were governed by savage laws. Others say it is time for the Cherokees to submit to inevitable destiny.
What Destiny? To be slandered and then butchered? Yes, this is the bitter cup prepared for us by a republican and religious government. We shall drink it to the dregs.”
My mother had a first cousin who married a full-blooded Arapaho Indian in Oklahoma, but they are now dead and had no children.