Cherokee
The Indians had many little confrontations with the white settlers and the white government. The Indians didn't always get along with the white people. Even though the Cherokee Indians were a very peaceful tribe they had wars with the whites. All the wars that the Indians went through they lost land or something valuable to them like faith, homes, life styles and sometimes their life. The first major war with the white people the war between 1775 and 1795. They lost all of the land which is now Tennessee. The Indians didn't fight like the white traditional ways of fighting. They used a way of fight call guerrilla warfare of in other words hit and run. Since this war lasted for about twenty years there was a lot deaths. Many people called the Indians savages but in most ways they were more civilized than the whites. Many whites would sneak into the Indians' camps and scalped them. Whites would kill women and children for not getting gold or valuables quick enough. When the war broke out between the French and the British the Cherokee Indians decided the help the British. They were afraid that if the French would beat the British then the white settlers would take more and more land. There were many Indian tribes that helped the French. When some of the Cherokee Indians rode though Virginia, some white settlers thought that they were going to help the French. They attacked the Indians and kill twenty-five Indians. The rest of the warriors fought back and scalped many Virginians. They also burned houses, destroyed fields and stole horses and guns. This was very uncharacteristic of the Cherokee tribe but the Indians had enough of the white man. The white man has done many things the change the life style of the Cherokee people. The act that changed the lifestyle the most was the Indian Removal Act. This act was passed in the U.S. supreme court in 1849. This act affected the Cherokee nation in many ways. Their land in Georgia was cut up into 160 acre lots. Any Indian...
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