sovereign nations with whom treaties were negotiated and set down. By 1830, President Andrew Jackson had signed the Indian Removal Act into law, heavily encouraging Eastern Native Americans to relocate and abandon their land. In the Supreme Court case, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, the Chief Justice, John Marshall, described their relationship as a “domestic dependent nation.” Regardless of this ruling, President Andrew Jackson, in open defiance against the laws of the U.S., began the forceful removal of these…
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