Cherokee and Creek people discuss the Allotment Act

After the Trail of Tears, Cherokees and other Southeastern tribe were forced out of their ancestral homeland and moved to Oklahoma. There the Native Americans established towns, schools and tribal communities. 50 years later the United States government enacted the Allotment Act that many tribes in Oklahoma see as a terrible blow to their sovereignty and cohesive tribal communities. The first elected female chairperson of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Wilma Mankiller and Muskogee Creek Alan Cook discuss the effects of the Allotment Act on the Cherokee, Creek, and other tribal people of Oklahoma. Large sections of the tribal lands the tribes had established were taken away and given to settlers as they pushed westward.

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[haikuoflife]

awww they're showing my gg grandma's brother C. A. Burris @ 2:32 (where they're saying imbue with egotistism blah blah blah =P)

[Drumlady12]

cherokee and black proud of both.never shun one.

[VideoGriot]

In the beginning of this video it is told how THEY built the first home and built the first farm in Indian Territory. Missing from this story are the slaves that built the first houses; that farmed the first PLANTATIONS of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole Nations. Videos like this give a partial view of their/our history.

The Trail of Tears was harsh for all of us!

[Shadowdrak5]

the Cherokee who saved andrew jacksons life, should have killed him the second he got the chance

[RedRiverDreams]

andrew jackson is rotting in hell

along with a few others

[FINISUNIVERSI]

dammit got on the dislike button first went to like after that sorry for that Ahwahneechee

[ScarlettKnights]

@devulboy1 "Neocon's view" are you fu--ing joking; Jackson

was an asshole democrat! He lived amongst, used and murdered

"Indians!"

[Papillonmuscogee]

@devulboy1 the Creek Nation, are the descendants of the mound builders. Remember the Creeks occupied, what is now Georgia.

[Papillonmuscogee]

@Choctawu, seriously? Your comment.

[Papillonmuscogee]

@dagger4ureye, lol "part white devil"