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View All Services. Entries Media All. Gender — Female Male. The Cherokees successfully challenged Georgia in the U. Supreme Court. President Jackson, when hearing of the Court's decision, reportedly said, "[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can.

Most Cherokees opposed removal. Yet a minority felt that it was futile to continue to fight. They believed that they might survive as a people only if they signed a treaty with the United States. In December , the U. Only to Cherokees were there; none were elected officials of the Cherokee Nation.

Twenty signed the treaty, ceding all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U. More than 15, Cherokees protested the illegal treaty. Senate — by just one vote. Most Cherokees, including Chief John Ross, did not believe that they would be forced to move.

In May , Federal troops and state militias began the roundup of the Cherokees into stockades. In spite of warnings to troops to treat the Cherokees kindly, the roundup proved harrowing. Families were separated-the elderly and ill forced out at gunpoint - people given only moments to collect cherished possessions. White looters followed, ransacking homesteads as Cherokees were led away.

Three groups left in the summer, traveling from present-day Chattanooga by rail, boat, and wagon, primarily on the Water Route. The rose is white for the tears that were shed, it has a gold center that shows the gold stolen form the Cherokee, and seven leaves that represent the seven Cherokee clans. Can a tree that is torn from its root by the fountain The pride of the valley; green spreading and fair Can it flourish, removed to the rock of the mountain Unwarmed by the sun and unwatered by care?

Though vesper be kind, her sweet dews in bestowing No life giving Brook in its shadows is flowing And when the chill winds of the desert are blowing So droops the transplanted and lone Cherokee. As flies the fleet deer when the bloodhound has started So fled the winged hope from the poor broken hearted Oh, could she have turned ere forever departing And beckons with smiles to her sad Cherokee. Is it the low wind through the wet willows rushing That fills with wild numbers my listening ear?

Or is it some hermit rill in the solitude gushing The strange playing minstrel, whose music I hear? Tis the voice of my father, slow, solemnly stealing I see his dim form by yon meteor kneeling To the God of the White man, the Christian appealing He prays for the foe of the dark Cherokee.

Great spirit of good, whose abode is in Heaven, Whose wampum of peace is the bow in the sky Wilt though give to the wants of the calmorous ravens, Yet turn a deaf ear to my piteous cry? O'er the ruins of home, o'er my heart's desolation No more shalt though hear my unblest lamentation For death's dark encounter, I make preperation He hears the last groan of the wild Cherokee. As president, he continued this crusade.

The law required the government to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully: It did not permit the president or anyone else to coerce Native nations into giving up their land. However, President Jackson and his government frequently ignored the letter of the law and forced Native Americans to vacate lands they had lived on for generations. In the winter of , under threat of invasion by the U. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether.

Thousands of people died along the way. The Indian-removal process continued. In , the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3, of the 15, Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip. Some wanted to stay and fight. Others thought it was more pragmatic to agree to leave in exchange for money and other concessions. To the federal government, the treaty was a done deal, but many of the Cherokee felt betrayed; after all, the negotiators did not represent the tribal government or anyone else.

Senate protesting the treaty. By , only about 2, Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian Territory. Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while his men looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1, miles to Indian Territory.