Jackson defended his stand by asserting that removal was the only course of action that could save the Native Americans from extinction. Jackson's attitude toward Native Americans was patronizing, describing them as children in need of guidance and believed the removal policy was beneficial to them. To congressional leaders, he assured them that his policies would enable the federal government to place the Indians in a region where they would be free of white encroachment and jurisdictional disputes between the states and the federal government. He asked congressional approval of his removal policy. Some of the people that were sitting in the government didn’t like the idea of Jackson and didn’t want to move the tribes from their lands, by
