Namely, the Cherokee took their lands from the Creeks and continued pushing the Creeks and the Catawba out of their vast new holdings. The Cherokee then assimilated better than any other tribe and were rewarded, when gold was discovered in Dahlonega, GA, by Andrew Jackson who literally stole the lands which the white/Cherokee assimilated families had developed. These were white people, who had plantations that produced vegetables for the all-cotton coastal cotton is king economies down the Savannah River. The families had names like Cleveland (hero of King’s Mtn.) as in Cleveland, GA and TN (one vast plantation).
No, not an apologist for Fauxahontas Liz Warren (who is not remotely a Cherokee- bogus claims). The legal land titles of GA and SC were ignored in the federal land grab for ... gold. Shameful treatment of true Americans,leading to the Trail of Tears to OK and slaughter/starvation- the story is quite sad and appalling. These were many people of substance and possessions amongst the common people forced out with them. All history is composed of these type of transitions, good and bad.
Instead of arguing over who is to blame or which tribe sided with who, let’s instead look at what happened to the American Indians. The government took a hardy, subsistence based group of peoples, and placed them on reservations. Within two generations they turned those people into welfare junkies. They are doing the same thing to the poor with the war on poverty.
You made my point. ALL land currently possessed used to belong to someone else. the reasons for taking it...whether it was 150 years ago or 2000 years ago are varied...whether it be gold...better hunting...or a feeling of manifest destiny.
The point remains: NOBODY is currently sitting on any land that they had from the beginning of time. ALL land used to belong to someone else.
Everyone is guilty of taking land that didn't belong to then...whether they are Cherokee...American...French....British....Italian...Chinese...you name it.