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Part 1
What was the justification used by the government to move Native Americans off their
land?
The US government argued that Native Americans, particularly the Cherokees, could not
adapt or assimilate to their desired culture. The government contended that the Cherokees
were unfamiliar foreign people who occupied land the Caucasians hoped to have
(LearnLiberty, 2012). The redistribution scheme became the main motivation behind the
government’s justification to move the Native Americans of their ancestral land
(LearnLiberty, 2012). The government wanted to take the land and possession belonging to
the Cherokee and redistribute it to those who didn’t have them.
What were the ways that the tribes affected attempted to fight removal
?
American native tribes attempted to fight the move by the government to have them ejected
from their ancestoral land (LearnLiberty, 2012). The Cherokee Nation filed a petition in the
Supreme Court challenging several laws passed by the state to limit the Indigenous Ameri