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Week 5 Journal.docx PSY324 Week 5 Journal Southern New Hampshire University PSY324 Investigate sources of perception and stereotypes. The Cherokee removal during the mid-1800s and the Trail of T... ears is an example of damaging stereotypes. English settlers perceived Native Americans as a threat to their own interests even though they posed little physical or military threat to the settlers. The Cherokee people presented more of an economic threat because of the Cherokee agricultural advancements (Introduction, n.d.). English settlers could have embraced the Cherokee, but unfortunately tensions among the settlers and the tribe rose. More of the Cherokee tribe embraced white culture and even were able to assimilate and excel in society. Unfortunately, the Cherokee were always perceived as œsavage no matter how civilized they became in white culture. When gold was discovered in 1828 in Dahlonega, Georg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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