no also in my history classes we are taught that the reason they were removed was due to uncivilized behavior ----- Original Message ----- From: Dusty <dustyc@microgear.net> To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES > Now that would be an interesting one to watch. Do you recall the name? > > dusty > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Patsy Caleb <studentarchaeologist@home.com> > To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:50 PM > Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES > > > > I saw a program on the history channel that is almost opposite to that. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Dusty <dustyc@microgear.net> > > To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:16 PM > > Subject: [CHAHTA] FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES > > > > > > > The Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw-Cherokee-Creek-Seminole-Chickasaw) > were > > > called "civilized" by the government because they were not nomadic, > lived > > in > > > permanent communities, were amenable to European ideas and culture and > had > > a > > > representative, centralized form of government. They were removed to > > Indian > > > Territory because they held the most desirable lands throughout the > > > southeast, and without removing them beyond the Mississippi River, those > > > lands could not be opened to encroaching white settlement. > > > > > > dusty > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > > > Markie and Fay's CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Home Page: > > > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ > > > > > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > > Choctaw Home Page: > > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ > > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: > Send msg. to CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > >