高中英语人教版高二下课文06

[11:48.36]from their own land to make room for European settlers.
[11:53.82]One by one,the Native American tribes were moved west.
[11:59.99]Indians who resisted were killed.
[12:04.06]One of the best-known examples of the hardships suffered by the Native Americans
[12:10.72]is the sad story of the Cherokee tribe.
[12:15.40]The Cherokees lived in the southeast of the United States.
[12:20.65]They lived by farming,hunting and fishing
[12:25.30]and had been able to adapt to modern society.
[12:30.34]The Cherokees had built homes and farms,
[12:35.17]developed a written language and made their own laws.
[12:40.82]Despite their hard work,the Cherokees were not treated fairly.
[12:47.37]When the government began driving the Ntive Americans away,
[12:53.02]the Cherokees were among the last to go.
[12:58.06]In 1838,the government began putting Cherokee men,
[13:04.54]women and children in camps and made them walk a thousand miles.
[13:11.30]The winter was cold and there was not much food.
[13:16.58]About 4,000 Cherokees died during the march,
[13:22.04]which became known as the "Trail of Tears" or "the trail where they cried".
[13:29.40]In the years that followed,
[13:32.88]Native Americans lived through one of the darkest times in their history.
[13:38.63]By the end of the nineteenth century,
[13:42.78]only some 250,000 Native Americans had survived.
[13:48.84]Their culture and way of life had been destroyed,
[13:53.80]their land had been taken away from them,
[13:57.96]and they were not given the rights most other Americans enjoyed.
[14:03.73]Most of the Native Americans were forced to live in special places,
[14:09.66]called "reservations",often in poor areas with few resources,
[14:16.42]given to them by the government.
[14:20.37]Few Native Americans were able to get an education and many lived in poverty.
[14:27.34]In the twentieth century,Native Americans began to gather strength again.
[14:33.69]The Civil Rights Movement was succeeding and some of the basic rights
[14:39.93]were given to Native Americans for the first time in history.
[14:45.26]Their culture and history were included in school history books
[14:51.22]and some of the languages began to be taught again.
[14:55.90]Much had been lost and destroyed over the past 300 years,
[15:02.14]but the spirit of the Native Americans had not been broken.
[15:08.02]Today,Native Americans are beginning to receive the respect they deserve
[15:14.68]and their culture is recognized as an important part of merican history.
[15:20.92]In 2004,a National Museum was opened to honor the first Americans
[15:28.08]and to remind us all not only of the pain and suffering caused
[15:34.56]by the Trail of Tears and other sad times,
[15:39.42]but also of the joy,beauty and strength of Native American culture and history.
[15:46.68]The Trail of Tears has not been forgotten.
[15:51.43]In fact,the terrible march has created a beautiful story,
[15:57.88]that of the Cherokee Rose.According to the story,
[16:03.24]the tears of the Cherokee mothers turned into flowers as they fell to the ground.
[16:10.40]The flower,a rose,is white as the tears and has a gold center,
[16:17.06]representing the gold that was taken from the Cherokee lands.
[16:23.01]The rose has seven leaves,
[16:26.10]one for each group of Cherokees that marched on the Trail of Tears.
[16:32.76]The flower still grows along the trail
[16:37.49]and it is now the state flower of Georgia.