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Also to support this statement I saw in the article called ‘Indian Removal Map” all the Indian tribes that were forced to move. It shows you that there is 5 different tribes that were moved into Indian territory. Another thing about the Indian removal act was how the Indians felt after they were moved. They felt like they were barely living and wished they weren’t forced to move off their land. In the article called ‘Memorial of the Cherokee Nation” is states that the Cherokees wished to stay on their land. The new region to where they were moved was badly supplied with food and water. All the different tribes there couldn’t understand each other because they spoke different languages.

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