Trail of Tears Chapter 13

I found chapter thirteen offensive and obscene. The things that were done to the Seminole Indians were just unbelievable. First the US soldiers steal their land and then they put them on prison ships. I had a hard time reading it. It starts out by first talking about how much the US soldiers hated the land and the Indians were right at home. Then it goes on to talk about General Scott, his nick name …

…the west it was foreign to the and most of them staved to death. The US finally got her attention off of the Seminole Indians and went to pick on someone else. “Pascofa had drunk from the cup of defeat, but some stragglers remained east of the Mississippi.” The Seminoles did not and never have signed “a formal peace treaty” with government, So they felt that is where they belonged. They are still there today.