Two Tribes, Two Lives
Amy Young
Est. 2014
Two groups, two lives
History of the Navajo
The Navajo Tribe started out as a small tribe living in the Southwestern Americas. Until contact with Pueblos and the Spanish, the Navajo were largely hunters and gatherers. The tribe adopted crop farming techniques from the Pueblo peoples, growing mainly corn, beans, and squash.
In 1883, Lt. Parker, accompanied by ten enlisted men and two scouts, went up the San Juan River to separate Navajo and citizens who had encroached on Navajo land.
During the time on the reservation, the Navajo tribe was forced to acclimate to white society. Navajo children were sent to boarding schools within the reservation and off the reservation.
Beginning in the spring of 1864, around 9,000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to embark on a trek of over 300 miles (480 km) to Fort Sumner, New Mexico for internment at Bosque Redondo.
History of the Cherokee
There are two main theories of Cherokee origins. One is that the Cherokee, an Iroquoian-speaking people, are relative latecomers to Southern Appalachia, Another theory is that the Cherokee had been in the Southeast for thousands of years.
In 1657, there was a disturbance in Virginia Colony as the Rechahecrians or Rickahockans, as well as the Siouan Manahoac and Nahyssan, broke through the frontier and settled near the Falls of the James, near present-day Richmond, Virginia
The Cherokee gave sanctuary to a band of Shawnee in the 1660s, but from 1710 to 1715 the Cherokee and Chickasaw, allied with the British, fought Shawnee, who were allied with the French, and forced them to move northward.
To convince the Cherokee to move voluntarily in 1815, the US government established a Cherokee Reservation in Arkansas. The Cherokee, eventually, migrated as far north as the Missouri Bootheel by 1816.
Was it right?
Both tribes, the Navajo and the Cherokee were dispositioned from their original territory, but it was considered right to the white presidents and people in the Americas. Was it the right thing to do?
Currently: The Navajo live in Arizona, New Mexico.
The Cherokee North Carolina, Oklahoma
Comparing the Two Tribes
Differences!
Similarities!
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