The chapter i read was primarily discussing how the different tribes were removed from their homes and cheated out of what’s rightfully theirs. The tribes Choctaw and Cherokee gave me a totally different outlook on the past and how things were dealt with. There was a part in the story where the Cherokee had no say in what was happening, but the whites portrayed themselves as being equal. "It was not "sanctioned by the great body of the Cherokee," and was made "without their participation or assent (p.95)." Indians were taken advantage of many times because their lack of education. The whites were making treaties one sided, so it would always favor them. If the whites even bothered to help the Native Americans they (Indians) were expected to give their lawyers, which were white, more money than they can keep for themselves. When i was reading i remembered a movie called "Dances with Wolves". That’s one of my all-time favorite movies. The reason i was connected through the reading to the movie is because it was the first encounter i had with actually seeing how Native Americans and Whites met. There's obviously more than meets the eye, but at a young age everything had an impact on me. Why as Americans do we submit to only looking out for ourselves rather than coming together? Why do we have signs right in front of us but still ignore them because we want the upper hand? All i know is that we are still fighting wars within ourselves to this day that were started hundreds of years ago.
