Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the

1830's was more a reformulation of the national policy that had

been in effect since the 1790's than a change in that policy."

The dictum above is firm and can be easily proved by examining

the administration of Jackson and comparison to the traditional

course which was carried out for about 40 years. After 1825 the

federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the

Great Plains area of the Far West. The Cherokee Indians of

northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up

a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were

sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. When the

Cherokee sought help from the Congress that body only allotted

lands in the West and urged them to move. The Supreme Court,

however, in Worcester vs. Georgia, ruled that they constituted a

"domestic dependent nation" not subject to the laws of Georgia.

Jackson, who sympathized with the frontiersman, was so outraged

that he refused to enforce the decision. Instead he persuaded the

tribe to give up it's Georgia lands for a reservation west of

establish an independent government would not be countenanced by

way of life, thus lessening their need for land], In leading them

distinct community. . . in which the laws of Georgia can have no

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