Leveled Readings / Cherokee Memorial to Congress (1829)
Cherokee Memorial to Congress (1829)
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1829)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Permit us to ask, what better right can a people have to a country, than the right of inheritance and immemorial peaceable possession ?”
Adapted · about grade 4
What better right to a land can people have than living there peacefully for a very long time?
Adapted · about grade 7
What better right can a people have to a country than inheriting it and living there peacefully since ancient times?
Adapted · about grade 10
What better right can a people have to a country than the right of inheritance and immemorial peaceful possession?
Used in: How did U.S. policy toward Native nations change from 1830 to 1934?