The Cherokee Removal: Justification

Anti Removal Paper While most White Americans supported the Cherokee removal in 1830, many White Americans disagreed with the removal. Many people viewed the Removal as unconstitutional because it infringed on the Cherokees rights as a Sovereign nation. Both the British and American governments had established, in multiple treaties, that the Cherokee were a Sovereign nation. Meaning that land could only be taken by the United States if the Cherokee nation submitted themselves or their land on to the United States government. Many different groups supported the Cherokees fight against the removal. One of the supporters of the Cherokee was Jeremiah Evarts. “The chief administrative officer of the large interdenominational missionary consortium the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.” (Perdue and Green 103). Jeremiah Evarts believed that God had a mission for the United States, that was to convert the entire world to Christianity, and that the …show more content…
In response to the action Evart wrote a series of essays called “A Brief View of the Present Relations between the Government and People of the United States and the Indians within Our National Limits”, where he expressed the Cherokees rights and claims. His first reason was that if the Natives hadn’t alienated themselves or surrendered their land then they have the right to continue living there without being disturbed. (Perdue and Green 105). Another valiant point that Evarts makes is that for over a hundred years, both the British and Americans have treated the Natives as independent nations, protecting their rights over their country and own self-government. The most important case that Evarts makes is that States cannot encroach onto Indian lands. Evarts work was very influential to several other Cherokee