One of worst thing about reading American History is finding out the country you love was capable of extreme cruelty to those Americans who were not white. Mary Glickman has written an incredibly moving account of Trail of Tears, called an Undisturbed Peace. Andrew Jackson was an evil President and it’s no surprise that another evil President, Donald Trump, made a joke about it the other day . The Cherokee dressed like white Americans and had a city called Echota where the homes looked like those in Boston or Philadelphia. Despite this their land was taken and they were driven across the Mississippi,with many of them dying along the way.Other tribes had children and adults set in burning piles as they succumb ed to Cholera. This barbarity continues today as I saw the Onondaga, a tribe of the Iroquois demeaned outside the reservation by being called “chief.” Just as the racists call blacks “Dr.” this designation demeans the American c called by this slur.
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