The Parakeet's Nest

Thank you, Mr. President Jackson.........

for the uncaring and purposely murdering of thousands and thousands of 1st Nation American Indians!! 

You NOT only done this to the Cherokee People, but to the Chichasaw People, Choctaw People, Muscogee-Creek and Seminole People also.

Just think, of how many lives that YOU are ultimately responsible for taking out of GREED!!! 

Eventually, ALL 1st Nation Indian Tribes.......were taken over and affected by the "white man".

LOL......LOL......"Land of the FREE"?

Depends on who's eyes you are looking out of!

You once said, "the only good Indian, is a dead Indian"...and as a man of your worthless word, you meant it.  What if it had been even so, forIrish Imigrants?  Of which you were born?  You may not have been here. 

The things that really happened in history....hummm, seemed to have been left out of my history book in school.  But, then again.....I WAS NOT forced away from my parents, my hair cut, my clothes changed, my own language forbbiden to use, and taught the way I should act, and should be!

I guess this is such an outrage to me, becuase I in my mind, cannot concieve of doing these things to an animal, let alone another human being!

This is what one of your U.S. Soliders wrote about what he saw, at the Removal of the Cherokee People:

"I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."

?- Georgia soldier who participated in the removal,

He is one of the many you had to do your "dirty work" for you.  Moving People, real, live, loving People around like they were pawns on a chest board or something.

In the winter of 1838 the Cheroke began the thousand mile march with scant clothing and most on foot without shoes or moccasins. The march began in Red Clay, Tennessee, the location of the last Eastern capital of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee were given used blankets from ahospital in Tennessee where an epidemic of small pox had broken out.Because of the diseases, the Indians were not allowed to go into anytowns or villages along the way; many times this meant traveling much farther to go around them.

After crossing Tennessee and Kentucky, they arrived in Southern Illinois at Golconda about the 3rd of December, 1838. Here the starving Indians were charged a dollar a head to cross the river on "Berry'sFerry" which typically charged twelve cents. They were not allowed passage until the ferry had serviced all others wishing to cross andwere forced to take shelter under ?Mantle Rock,? a shelter bluff on theKentucky side, until ?Berry had nothing better to do?. Many died huddled together at Mantle Rock waiting to cross. Several Cherokee were murdered by locals. The killers filed a lawsuit against the U.S.Government through the courthouse in Vienna, suing the government for$35 a head to bury the murdered Cherokee.  And the crazy thing is......they GOT it.

The population of the Cherokee Nation eventually rebounded, and today the Cherokees are the largest American Indian group in the United States.  How do ya like them apples.......Mr.President Jackson?  And all the lil' heathens that worked under him,with NO back bone to give a fight for human life and rights.

So, all I have to say in closing.......is to you,

Mr. President Jackson......"Si Yu"!

Cherokee for "hello"...."is it hot down there"?

be blessed..........

haney