miércoles, 25 de junio de 2008

REMARKABLE EVENT - SIOUXS AND CHEROKEES

The Unites States has many tribes, but the most important are Cherokees and Sioux, these tribes had remarkable events that were unfortunate situations. The most relevant events of Cherokees were “Trail of Tears” and Sioux “Little Crow’s War”. They had many differences and similarities, but there were more differences between them.


One obvious difference was “Trail of tears” that happened in 1838-1839 so it lasted one year, due to development of a new law imposed by Andrew Jackson , while “Little Crow’s War” was in 1851-1861, so it lasted ten years due to breach of treaty between American government and Sioux tribe. Thus during the development of Little Crow’s War the Sioux tribe received support by Europeans whereas Cherokee tribe didn’t have help during the Trail of tears. Other areas of difference between Cherokees and Sioux were that causes of died. These causes of dead to Cherokees were cold weather, hunger and diseases due to their displacement. In contrast Sioux died by the war. Both events generated many dead people but Cherokee tribe had a major number of them.

Nevertheless there are some similarities between both tribes. One of those is that Europeans and Americans discovered gold in their territories. For that reason the American government forced they tribes moving to other different lands of the United States. A final similarity was the dead of many innocent people that it remains in memory.

In summary, these events were important because then divided the history in two parts and changed the history and life of these tribes.

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