Trail Of Tears :: American America History

drag out Of TearsOn September 15, 1830, at Little Dancing hare Creek, the Chiefs of the Choctaw Nation and representatives of the U.S. met to discuss the impact of a bill recently passed by the Congress of the U.S. This bill, with all the same good intentions of those today who believe they have it away better than we how to conduct our lives, allowed for the removal of all Indian populates to the West of the manuscript River. It had been made clear to the Choctaw, that the Whites in Washington cared little for our situation, that either we willingly moved, or by military force we would be moved. We were not stolid savages, but industrious farmers, merchants, and businessmen of all types. We were educated people, many were Christians. We had an organised system of government and a codified body of law. Some of these people were not even Indians, many strangers and orphans had been taken in over the years. The Chiefs and Warriors sign(a) the treaty, realizing they had no optio n. For doing this the government officials guaranteed, in the body of the treaty, safe conveyance to our saucy homes. (Do not forget for a moment that in this treaty, the Choctaw traded 10.3 million acres of land east of the Mississippi for 10.3 acres in Oklahoma and atomic number 18 that we already delivered under previous treaties) Further, it included provisions and monetary annuities, to assist the people to make a new start. One half(prenominal) of the people were to depart almost immediately, the rest the next year. After the subscribe of the treaty, many saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. The conveyances promised turn out to be a forced march. At the express of a gun, the pace killed many of the old, exposure and bad food killed most. dirty beef and vegetables are poor provisions, even for the idle. Many walked the entire surpass without shoes, barely clothed. What supplies were given had been rejected by the whites. This cannot directly blamed on the government, nearly all of this was done by unscrupulous men, interested solitary(prenominal) in maximizing their profits. They governments fault lies in not being alert of those taken into their charge. Many of the old and the children died on the road. At each allowed stop, the brain dead were buried. Hearing of this many escaped. They knew that as they signed the rolls, to be removed, that this dexterity as well be their death warrants.