Loneliness

My writing piece will be about the loneliness of Native Americans during the 1800’s. The specific Indian nation I will be writing about is the suffrage of the Cherokees. They are one of largest and most familiar nation so they were targeted by the mass more often. They were all treated poorly and many people thought of them as savage beast.

The problems began when settlers first made contact with Native Americans and considered them uneducated savages. The settlers took their land away and it forced Natives to recline back away from them. Sadly this was only the start during the French and Indian war many Indians served as soldiers and still got disrespected for fighting for what they believed in. During the Revolutionary war the Indians helped participate in the war to keep back British and some fought for the British due to Britain promising they’d give them back some of their land.

After the Revolutionary war things became drastic Indians were performing raids on communities still due to the frustration and lack of treatment they received. Many people thought they were savages due to the way they talked, fought, lived, and there religious views were very different compared to them. During the presidential election of 1829 President Andrew Jackson was elected. A famous war hero in the battle of 1812 vowed to remove Native Americans. The masses loved the idea of getting rid of Native Americans.

The first acts passed against Indians were unjust, unlawful, and disrespectful. They were not allowed to marry whites, go to schools, and were publically harassed for doing nothing wrong. As a people you were bound to suffrage and pain just for your looks and the people you came from. Soon Indians homes were being raided, attacked, and sacked yet they did nothing wrong. If they resisted many were shot, beaten, or lynched for fighting back against a white man.

Soon Andrew Jackson did the unthinkable by passing laws sending Indians to reservation camps and west. This was the start of the Trail of Tears. Many Indians were in their home when armed beast came knocking. Their doors were smashed down the husbands were rifle butted and dragged from their homes. They were allowed one small bag of personal stuff and in many cases they loaded bags on wagons and sold their personal objects for personal gain or funding. They held down men and cut off their hair to humiliate them and destroyed homes. If they refused to leave their homes they had orders to shoot and kill them. They wouldn’t spare any of them but would line them up the sides of their homes and shoot them.


Once enough Indians were racked up they started a massive convoy of people. Many soldiers rode horseback to make it easier on them and forced Indians to walk barefoot or in moccasins. In many instances if a Indian tried fleeing they’d chase them down and slaughter them because they wanted to go home. The whole Native American population suffered as whole for all were affected by these treacherous acts passed by its country.

The march would take them all the way west towards Washington for relocation. During the march conditions were horrible for the Indians. Many or the sick were loaded into wagons and many died. They had no medicine, little clothing to hold back against the cold harsh winters. The dead were littered all around the trails and weren’t properly buried because American soldiers did not value the life of a savage. They children typically died easiest due to their natural weaknesses of strength, will, and required more food and care. Many children died every night due to the freezing temperatures and would cause them to freeze in their sleep. The trails soon became red with blood, their feet had not cover and walking on shards of ice pierced skin and muscles making the trails shimmer in a trail of frozen blood. Yet the American soldiers did not value Indians to care and treat them.

Many civilians in the country knew this march was happening but did not care to speak out against these tyrannous acts passed by their beloved presidents. People thought they were doing themselves a favor by nearly killing off all the Indians. The government failed to do its job and rather did the opposite.it surpassed and beaten a massive group of people in fear of them. They did not understand the way of Native American life so they feared it, they were scared of them so they secluded them from society and essentially removed the as a whole from society.

Many mothers cried during the march knowing their children ahd died and they weren’t allowed to bury or properly say their goodbyes to the dead. Many husbands cried because their wives died from starvation and disease. The elders and most respected Indians in tribes who were once well respected and treated properly laid dead in ditches, starved, beaten, and died for a worthless cause. Most Indians lost weight, families, and friends during the march. At the end of the march manly males and some women lived. They made it to the end but at the end they lost everything, home. The place where they went to sleep, watched their children grow, watched it all crumble before them. Their children dead in a pile of mud, parents perished to illness, and wife died of starvation. A second chance that none wanted to take. A whole Nation once prosperous and traditional to life laid broken and feeble due to their seclusion as a whole.