Supreme Court objected to these practices and affirmed that native nations were sovereign nations “in which the laws of Georgia can have no force.”Įven so, the maltreatment continued.

Several states passed laws limiting Native American sovereignty and rights and encroaching on their territory. State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South. They stole livestock burned and looted houses and towns committed mass murder and squatted on land that did not belong to them.

Many of these whites yearned to make their fortunes by growing cotton, and often resorted to violent means to take land from their Indigenous neighbors. In Illinois and Wisconsin, for example, the bloody Black Hawk War in 1832 opened to white settlement millions of acres of land that had belonged to the Sauk, Fox and other native nations.īut the Native Americans’ land, located in parts of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, was valuable, and it grew to be more coveted as white settlers flooded the region.

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