[odawg]

The “trail of tears” was provoked when the Cherokee and allied tribes annihilated another tribe down to the last Indian, save one female, who they thought was too pretty to kill. Jackson stated such behavior should not occur in the United States.

[onedoug]

Andrew Jackson said the removal policy was an effort to prevent the Cherokee from facing extinction as a people, which he considered the fate that "the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware" had suffered.[43] But, there is ample evidence that the Cherokee were adapting modern farming techniques. A modern analysis shows that the area was in general in a state of economic surplus and could have accommodated both the Cherokee and new settlers.[44] --From the Wiki entry Cherokee, which mentions nothing of your assertion of which I'm also unfamiliar. Could you document it a bit further for me? Thanks.

[higgmeister]

The “trail of tears” was provoked when the Cherokee and allied tribes annihilated another tribe down to the last Indian, save one female, who they thought was too pretty to kill. Jackson stated such behavior should not occur in the United States.

You are going to need to provide more details about that lie before I will believe it.

I have been to the old Cherokee capital, New Echota, at Spring Place, GA several times, along with the The Chief Vann House. My wife is part Cherokee. My Father-in-law was born at Spring Place. "The Five Civilized Tribes" were farmers and had begun adopting American ways before Jackson was President.

The fact is that in 1828 Gold was discovered in the Georgia Cherokee land and therefore the land had to be taken!