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Indian Removal Treaty Essay

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In 1838, the Cherokees were forced to give up their lands and to migrate to present-day Oklahoma, due to the signing of The Treaty of New Echota. The Cherokees were deported from their homes, betrayed by the government whom they treated with respect, separated them from their land that they nurtured; the Cherokee struggled to understand how to make a new life. The Indian Removal led to thousands of Cherokees to die due to starvation, diseases, and exhaustion during their march known as The Trail of Tears. This paper will discuss the effects it had on the Cherokees and what has happened during the trail.
During the Indian removal, there were some emotional events that happened between Maritole and Knobowtee. After being removed from their …show more content…

Knobowtee’s sister, Aneh started having dreams that she was bitten by a snake. She would make sounds and clamp her arms to her fingers. It was impossible for Aneh to be bitten by a snake in the cold weather. As the days went by it became hard for her to survive on the trail. The stories of Uk’ten made her dream of snakes, but in her mind she was bitten because the swamps and rivers they had passed through the trail. The spirit of the Uk’ten was in the present of the trail that wanted to take control of Aneh mind allowing her to believe that she was bitten by a snake. All Knobowtee could think about was the fact that his sister probably, “offended a snake or fish and one of them return to take vengeance, causing her to dream of snakes crawling over her, breathing their breath into her face, spoiling her saliva until she was bitten a dream and lost her appetite. ” Aneh mind lead her to think that she really was being bitten by the snake. The only way Aneh could be free from her from was with the help of the conjurer. Even though it was an imaginary bite the conjurer still had to use the medicine and sing their ritual song in Cherokee. The medicine would help Aneh recover by vomiting and causing her to release any evil spirits from her

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