Monday, October 29, 2007
The Indian Removal Act
I am a soldier in the US Army. I was one of the soldiers that were assigned to the removal of the Indians. I was there when the indians were dragged from thier homes and taken away, just to be crammed into wagons and hauled to the other side of the country. They were forced to leave all of the thier possesions and belongings behing. Just because the white men wanted more land. I was forced to watch them suffer as we travelled over the country. Many of them didnt have shoes to wear, or jackets to keep them warm. When they were finally dropped off out west, they had nothing left. Many of the indians died on this trip. They were not allowed to conduct popular barials and often the bodies were thrown on the side of the road. It was a shameful part of our history.
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Since this was your topic and you did study this more than othrs how did this affect you? Do you wonder what it would be like to go back and really see how the indians were affected? All together I agree with your last statement this was a shameful part of our history, so why did we feel like we had the right to treat them this way? Do you think that there are any justifications to how we treated the indians? Just curious about how you feel. Great Blog entry!
I think that when President Jackson decided to move the indians, we felt like we had the power. We felt that even though the indians had been there longer than we had, we had controll over them. We were controll hungry and kept wanting more land. And we saw the Indians as a disposable group. We saw the indians not equal to us. So we felt that because we were bigger and stronger as a nation that we could push them around. THus resulting in the Trail of Tears.
If you were in Jacksons position do you think you would have made the same decision he did? Would the pressure he had during that time affect you the same way it affected Jackson?
If in Jacksons position a the decision would be very difficult to make. Sitting in the present thinking back i would like to think that i would have been opposed to the removal. But i am not sure if I would be. The removal did help the United States, yes, but it also damaged thousands of lives of American Indians.But i do not know if i would have made the right decision. What would you have done if put in this situation Jen???
If I were put in that situation I believe I would be against the removal. But you are right it is very hard to think about what decision you would make unless you are in that situation. I want to believe I would be against it, but if I were in that pressure spot I'm not sure that I would make that decision. I sit back and wonder if I was under the same pressure would I do yhe sam thing? What do you think the biggest pressure was for the removal?
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