His Line of Sight– This Cherokee Indian is hunting game in his natural elements, somewhere in the southeast Appalachian area. Cherokee, North American people of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization of the Americas.
They are believed to have been numbered more than 22,500 individuals in 1650, and controlled approximately 40,000 square miles of the Appalachian Mountains in parts of our present-day Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and the western parts of what are now the states of North Carolina and South Carolina.
When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, agitation for the removal of the tribe increased. In December 1835 the Treaty of New Echota, signed by a small minority of the Cherokee, ceded to the United States all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River for $5 million. The overwhelming majority of tribal members repudiated the treaty and took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court rendered a decision favorable to the tribe, declaring that Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokee people and no claim to their land. Georgia officials ignored the court’s decision, President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it, and this Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to facilitate the eviction of tribal members from their homes and territory. As many as 16,000 or more Cherokee were evicted from their homes at gunpoint and thus gathered into camps while their homes were plundered and burned by local Euro-American residents. The eviction and forced march, which came to be known as the Trail of Tears, took place during the fall and winter of 1838–39. About 4,000 or more Cherokee died on the 116-day journey, many died because the escorting troops refused to slow down or stop so that the ill and exhausted could recover.
The pre-Columbus Cherokee used their own technology and material culture that included fire and the fire drill; the domesticated dog; stone implements of many kinds; the spear-thrower, harpoon, and bow and arrow; and cordage, netting, basketry, and, in some places, pottery. Many Indigenous American groups were hunting and gathering cultures, while others were agricultural peoples. Indigenous American domesticated a variety of plants and animals, including corn (maize), beans, squash, potatoes and other tubers, turkeys, llamas, and alpacas, as well as a variety of semi-domesticated species of nut- and seed-bearing plants. Before the Euro-American era Indigenous People of the Nation enjoyed all the "beauty in detail"of a living a simple life in harmony with the land and the customs of their fore-fathers.
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