the treaty signers gave up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River. In exchange the Cherokees would receive five million dollars and new lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

The Cherokee went to the Supreme Court again in 1831. This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831 ...

Is the Cherokee nation a foreign state ... by peculiar and cardinal distinctions which exist nowhere else. The Indian territory is admitted to compose a part of the United States.

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