Cherokees Are After Me

Tales of the expansion of settlers into the frontier are never complete without harrowing accounts of attacks on covered wagons.

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As the then growing United States continued its westward expansion according to "Manifest Destiny," the American Indians, who were already branded as heathens and savages, were simply an obstacle to be overcome.

Initially, the American Indians got along well with the arriving Europeans, but as the numbers of settlers increased, they began to encroach on Indian lands in the West.

The American Indians were pushed further from their homelands to designated areas through a series of bloody wars, known as the Indian Wars.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson got his wish and the "Indian Removal Act" was signed into law, though it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1832. Then, with the signing of the Treaty Of Echota in 1835 began the forced removal of the entire Cherokee Nation to northeast Oklahoma along the "Trail Of Tears."