History

The women of the Indigenous Tribes of North America were a strong and stable element in the structures that were the various tribes and villages of their different Nations.

Removal of Cherokee Indians and others to Oklahoma. Nunna daul Tsuny — “The Trail Where They Cried”

Congressman John Bell of Tennessee - Letter to the editors of the National Intelligencer, Washington, July 27, 1840

The United States government, from its very inception, continued the English and colonial strategy of dealing with the Indian tribal nations on a government-to-government basis through treaty-making.

The Cherokee Nation – largest of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast – is a people of Iroquoian lineage.

“The very moment I can rid myself of them (the southeastern native tribes )…I shall certainly do so”. Such were the words of the man who would embody a nations’ view of the First Americans. I write, of course, of Andrew Jackson.

Letter from Chief John Ross of the Cherokee, Georgia, 1836. By President Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828, the only large concentrations of Indian tribes remaining on the east coast were located in the South.