At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River.
Taking the journey through an unusually cold winter, they suffered terribly from exposure, disease, and starvation, killing several thousand people while en route to their new designated reserve. They were also attacked by locals and economically exploited - starving Indians were charged a dollar a head (equal to $24.01 today) to cross the Ohio River, which typically charged twelve cents, equal to $2.88 today.
Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.” As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida–campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers. As president, he continued this genocide. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the cotton kingdom east of the Mississippi for land to the west, in the “Indian colonization zone” that the United States had acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase. (This “Indian territory” was located in present-day Oklahoma.)
The law required the government to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully: It did not permit the president or anyone else to coerce Native nations into giving up their land. However, President Jackson and his government frequently ignored the letter of the law and forced Native Americans to vacate lands they had lived on for generations. In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian Territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file,” one historian writes) and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.”
The Trail of Tears
The Indian-removal process continued. In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip.
The Cherokee people were divided: What was the best way to handle the government’s determination to get its hands on their territory? Some wanted to stay and fight. Others thought it was more pragmatic to agree to leave in exchange for money and other concessions. In 1835, a few self-appointed representatives of the Cherokee nation negotiated the Treaty of New Echota, which traded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi for $5 million, relocation assistance and compensation for lost property. To the federal government, the treaty was a done deal, but many of the Cherokee felt betrayed; after all, the negotiators did not represent the tribal government or anyone else. “The instrument in question is not the act of our nation,” wrote the nation’s principal chief, John Ross, in a letter to the U.S. Senate protesting the treaty. “We are not parties to its covenants; it has not received the sanction of our people.” Nearly 16,000 Cherokees signed Ross’s petition, but Congress approved the treaty anyway.
By 1838, only about 2,000 Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian Territory. President Martin Van Buren sent General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers to expedite the removal process. Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while his men looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian Territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey.
By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian Territory. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever, but as the line of white settlement pushed westward, “Indian Country” shrank and shrank. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian Territory was gone for good.
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wow
it’s October 1st and Mao did literally nothing wrong
finished parkour civilization 1. evolution in brainrot storytelling. youtuber voice presenting a slop idea that is taken seriously and executes a hackneyed baby’s-first critique of capitalism well enough that it does actually critique the profit motive and money, well, decently enough, which for 8 year olds that’s almost the equivalent of handing them Kapital. it’s baffling that it kinda works. I’m genuinely surprised that it was halfway-decent. the evangelion of brainrot content in our lifetimes
like I was extremely skeptical going in but I’ve encountered much worse dystopian YA. hunger games for gen α. i think part of why it works is that the premise is so intrinsically-baffling that it gates you with the amount of suspension-of-disbelief that allows you to actually appreciate it when there’s evidently much more care put into it in an artistic sense than the vast majority of tiktok fyp clickmaxx algo-chaser content-brained
-esque videos.
transmuting the stock YA vaguely-capitalist hierarchical dystopia framework onto a Today, I’m Narrating My Immediate Actions In This Cadence MrBeast Voice based around Minecraft Parkour and actually executing it semi-competently with decent foreshadowing and a weirdly-compelling narrative feels actually oddly fresh to me. a certain je ne sais quoi. if I had to describe it–I don’t know why this exists but I see what they were going for and it’s obvious they care about it, put noticeable effort into the writing, and have crafted something that I would never think to craft, and that makes me want to see the vision–and to me, that’s art, in a sense.
It’s so mesmerizing to watch. Eventually the “what is happening right now” questions stop and you just fall into the absurdity. Maybe I’ll do a rewatch since it’s been a while
I think I might want to start learning an instrument. Right now both guitar and piano seem interesting since they sound the nicest to me and I’ve been curious on what it would be like to make music, and I mean the real deal. I listen to way too much anime and vidya soundtracks despite being a grown adult and I need to change. Here’s a list of some non-gaming music I like, and yes it’s all probably super dorky:
She picked me up and put me in her pocket - Alex Andre. It reminds me of persona and sonic music and I’d love to listen to more stuff like that, or start making stuff like that.
[Not the villain I appear to be - Connor Spiotto]((https://youtu.be/CZkZRzqYHrw?t=125) I really want to know what instrument makes the sound at the time I copied the link at. But I like it because it reminds me of Sly Cooper’s soundtrack.
Blue in Green - Miles Davis Call me pretentious, but I like jazz. It’s good background music.
Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi. Obligatory weebishness aside, I just like it dammit.
So if anyone has any recommendations on “real”, non-vidya music for me to check out or what instrument might be the most appealing I’d love to hear it.
I don’t think you can go wrong either way, but based on what you’ve shared, my rec is piano/keys. Consider picking up a cheap MIDI keyboard with USB MIDI out so you can plug it into a PC or smartphone. From there you’re limited only by your skills and imagination, assuming your gear is in good working order. There’s a lot of good free virtual instrument options out there which should let you get your feet wet enough to decide whether you wanna jump in all the way. I know of Surge XT and Vital for synthesizer instruments, I’m not sure what all’s out there for orchestral/acoustic sample packs, sorry.
If you wanna get serious with any instrument and you can afford it, consider taking lessons as well so you learn proper form and techniques to reduce the chance of injuring yourself.
Godspeed, comrade!
reduce the chance of injuring yourself
I…injuries?
Repetitive strain injuries, yeah. Bad wrist/finger technique isn’t just a problem for typists. Learn the right tech up front and save yourself pain later, trust me on this.
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How is it that LTE is practically useless now? Before 5G the shit felt comparable to WiFi now i can barely load a fucking app
Speedrunner I passively watch while I work mentions pronouns and I immediately lock in and prep for disappointment
False alarm
Day drinking and watching Babylon 5
Gonna get vaccinated with a friend Thursday, taking the day off Friday, hopefully doing the pokemon go, incredibly shitty, October community day Saturday
Why did Niantic pick sewaddle for OCTOBER
Reddit admins will now have approval power over subreddits going private (lol) https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
meaning moderators will have to request to make a switch from safe for work to not safe for work, too.
Oh myyyy. Sure they can still lock posts. Maybe. Maybe
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CHUDs seething because Tim Walz got excited to see a mascot or something happening at a football game is so funny. Least normal people on earth. Like actually just incredible, I haven’t been interacting with people as much as I should since covid started, but even I am still in touch enough to go “yeah, that’s just a guy”.
New Jersey sucks
“wow, a society that doesnt prioritize the mental health of it’s people will crumble!”
I had forgotten how to format my posts T_T
I had it out with this Trot kid over a year ago. And by kid, I really mean he was 17 at the time. He said something low tier insulting to my alt so I just blocked him, as I’m too old for that shit. And it was all alt online shit, so ya people argue harder than they normally would.
Met him in person a few times, and ya him and I are both irl very calm and chill people. He friend requested my actual human social media account. I feel iffy but maybe I’m just being petty.
Currently listen: Bug Like An Angel by Mitski