Cherokee — Not random

Conditions

• United States exists
• United States is a neighbor
• The following must not occur:
  • In the Latin technology group

Will happen within 720 days of January 2, 1800
Checked again every 720 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1820)

Description

By the turn of the 19th century, there had been many years of contact between Cherokee and European settlers. Christian missionaries had long seen Native Americans as a fertile mission field, and missionaries were often the primary peaceful contact between the cultures. The first permanent mission in Cherokee lands was built in 1801 by Moravian missionaries. It was soon followed by Presbyterian and Congregational missions among others. Most missions also included a school - which the Cherokee were very interested in. Here they could learn the white man's way of thinking, and even learn to read and write. But not all Cherokee agreed on how much to accept the ways of the missionaries.

Actions

A. They have some useful things to teach us

• Stability -1
• Change technology group to African
• +50 relations with United States
• Centralization +1

B. Let us turn entirely to their ways

• Stability -4
• Change technology group to Asian
• Conditions:
  
  • All of the following must be true for :
    • State religion is Protestant
  Change religion to Protestant
• Conditions:
  
  • All of the following must be true for :
    • State religion is Reformed
  Change religion to Reformed
• Conditions:
  
  • All of the following must be true for :
    • State religion is Catholic
  Change religion to Catholic
• +100 relations with United States
• Centralization +3

C. No, let us reject them completely!

• Stability +3
• -100 relations with United States
• Event 7001 - Sequoyah and the Written Cherokee Language for Cherokee will never fire

Cherokee — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 7000 - Missionaries in Echota for Cherokee has already occurred
  • United States is a neighbor
  • England is a neighbor
  • France is a neighbor
  • Spain is a neighbor

Will happen within 720 days of January 2, 1810
Checked again every 720 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1825)
unless prevented by
Action C of 7000 - Missionaries in Echota for Cherokee

Description

Very little is known about Sequoyah's early life. All that can be stated for certain is that he was at least half Cherokee, was unschooled, and had physical ailments that prevented him from taking up an active lifestyle. He took a number of odd jobs before finally setting up a successful blacksmithing shop. While operating the shop and selling to Cherokee and whites alike, he observed how useful it was to have a written language, and resolved to create a written Cherokee language himself. He continued development while fighting in the Creek war in 1813-14, finally completing his system in 1821. Unlike the English alphabet, Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system is a syllabary - each symbol represents a syllable of the language. The syllabary was accepted by the majority of Cherokee by the mid-1820s, and in 1828 Elias Boudinot began publishing the first Cherokee newspaper: the Cherokee Phoenix, which ran until 1834 then was revived in 1975 and is still in publication today.

Actions

A. A great man!

• Stability +1
• Change technology group to Latin
• Innovativeness +3
• Infrastructure tech investment: +1000

Cherokee — Not random

Conditions

• Event 50003 - The Indian Removal Act for United States has already occurred

Will happen within 360 days of January 2, 1832
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1837)

Description

During the Georgia gold rush of the 1820s and 1830s, pressure steadily increased on the Cherokee people to give up their traditional lands to white settlers. Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 offered any eastern tribe the chance to acquire land west of the Mississipi in exchange for leaving their tribal lands. Not surprisingly, few accepted the offer without force. The State of Georgia took the legal standpoint that it held authority over all Indians within its territory. The Cherokee tested this theory by taking the state to the Supreme Court in the case of Worcester v. Georgia and won the case, but President Jackson refused to enforce the verdict by protecting the Cherokee from the state. As a result, some of the Cherokee - known as the Treaty Party - came to believe that the only realistic option was to get the best possible terms for a removal. They independently entered negotiations and signed the Treaty of New Echota with the federal government in late 1835. This treaty called for the complete removal of Cherokee to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for compensation of about 5 million dollars. However, the treaty had not been approved by the general council or by Chief John Ross, and violence soon broke out within the Cherokee nation. The ensuing Trail of Tears was a disaster for the Cherokee people. The underlying tensions within the Cherokee nation were still not resolved when the American Civil War broke out some 25 years later, and Cherokee fought on both sides during that conflict.

Actions

A. We have no choice but to negotiate

• Stability -2
• A random province revolts

B. No compromise!

• Start a war with United States
• Event 50004 - The Trail of Tears for United States will never fire