On this day the Treaty of New Echota was signed between the US government and representatives of the Cherokee Indians to cede all their lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States. It was President Andrew Jackson’s policy of removing Native Americans from their ancestral lands to make way for settlers and gold speculators that led to the infamous ‘Trail of Tears’ in the 1830s. The Cherokees initially resisted the policy, winning a law case in the US Supreme Court. However President Jackson refused to acknowledge the judgement and 20,000 were eventually marched west at gunpoint. A quarter of them died on the journey.
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