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INDIAN LANDS, Georgia in the 1830s: 1 through 7 of 7

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  1. A Writer's Reaction to the Treatment of the Cheorkee People in Georgia
    date January 2, 1830 to December 31, 1830map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Cherokee Indians, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

    January 1830. An impassioned plea has been made by writer William Penn in the January 2nd 1830 edition of   The Religious Intelligencer, for the case of the Cherokee Nation against the state of Georgia. He has expressed a growing outrage and disgust against the way Indians in general have been mistreated by the United States and her citizens. The government is called upon to act with Christian morality...

  2. Missionaries and the Choctaws
    date 1831map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans

    Mr. Cushman and his fellow missionaries broke ground in the "unbroken wilderness" of Choctaw Nation on October 15, 1827 and on July 31, 1831 he published a letter about his experiences in The Missionary Herald titled, Effects of the Gospel on the People. Upon his arrival in 1827, Cushman found the members of the Choctaw tribe to be entirely heathen and uncivilized in both appearance and practice. He...

  3. Presbyterianism and the Creation of Cherokee Sovereignty
    date July 6, 1831 to March 3, 1832map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Government, Law, Native-Americans

    On July 6th, 1831 Presbyterian ministers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Elizur Butler and Samuel Austin Worcester began their 110 mile march to a Georgia penitentiary from the neighboring Cherokee lands in chains. Arrested in New Echota by the Georgia Guard and detained indefinitely, Butler and Worcester were charged with the direct violation of a new Georgia state law...

  4. No Wampum for this land
    date December 3, 1832 to December 30, 1832map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Government, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    December of 1832 saw another sale of lands that were the rightful property of Cherokee and Creek Indians in Georgia. The Native Americans of Georgia were forced from their homes and lands because the state government saw the land as being underused and mismanaged by the Indian tribes. This act of selling Indian lands was known as the Georgia Land Lottery and in 1832 it again sold off native lands...

  5. Creek Indians burn the town of Roanoke, Georgia
    date May 15, 1836map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, War

    In May of 1836, a long simmering conflict between whites and Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia finally erupted. President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States had resulted in uncontrolled speculation, and frontier people were clamoring for more land. This was in spite of the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta, which stipulated that individual Creeks be given a parcel of 320 acres if they...

  6. A Fractured Cherokee Nation Fights Removal
    date December 29, 1835 to December 31, 1838map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Native-Americans, Government

    The conflict over the lands of the Cherokee tribe (more commonly referred to as the Cherokee Nation) sat on the forefront of U.S. politics once the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830. However, when the Ridge Party, a breakaway pro-removal group of the Cherokee Nation, signed the Treaty of New Echota with U.S. treaty commissioners J.F. Schermerhorn and William Carroll on December...

  7. End of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
    date May 16, 1836 to June 1, 1839map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    The Trail of Tears was named as such by the Cherokee Indians who survived the forced march west from their native lands throughout Georgia and North Carolina. Hostility toward the Cherokees was not a foreign concept for the native people of Georgia. The Cherokees were led by the chief called The Ridge, who allied the Cherokees with Andrew Jackson in 1814 at Horseshoe Bend. During his presidency,...