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2- The Whites take possession
Over the next 200 years, white people gradually moved west, taking land from the Indian tribes and forcing them to move from their environment. They killed the buffalo, brought guns and diseases. In 1830, the Indian Removal Act made all the tribes living east of the Mississippi move west to an isolated region called “Indian territory”. At that time, the Cherokee tribes were already highly civilized. They had a written language and their own newspaper. They lived in brick houses and sent their children to white schools; but this didn’t save them. In 1838, American soldiers forced thousands of Cherokees to leave their homes in Georgia and march hundreds of miles to the west. The journey – “the trail of tears” – took nearly five months and 4,000 Cherokees (a quarter of the whole Cherokee nation) died.
