There are a few things wrong with this statement. First of all, being impossible to be civil depends on their definition of civil. The Native Americans were civilized. They lived in grous and cooked their food. They were cultured; every single tribe was cultured in their own special way, incuding the Cherokeeswho had their own distinct tastes and sense of civil. But when removal came, they had to abandom all that they held as their pride, only to adopt to the enemy, trying to display their civility. The Cherokee changed their customs, clothing, and even invented a written language to convince the enemy not to attack. The US plainly ignored their plea and went ahead to drive the Cherokee off their Native lands and into a place that was the very definition of hell. They were driven to a place frozen over with snow and blindingly white. When they have removed to the west, unvoluntarily, unlike the original intentions of Thomas Jefferson whom had proposed that the movement of Native Americans to the west be voluntary and only that. This was no remedy; it didnt even come close to reimbursing the Native americans for their sacrifices. There was no improvement nor prosperity. The farming failed. Most everyone died from disease and famine. This was more like a prison than a reservation. This was not a treatment to a friend but rather the treatment of an object. It was like throwing the mess under the rug. This was racial injustice; to flush out an entire race of people like that, it had to be. This was an act of evil dune unto the native americans by the United States government and ther "white" Andrew Jackson.
But it is not fair to discrimintate against the Americans just because of the worst presidential choice next to George W. Bush. There were people who went out into the field and saw how horrid the treatment was. John G. Burnett was opne of them. He was a solider who guarded the Cherokee throughout the harsh trip. He was a good person with a decent heart and a sense of morality who saw how cruel this trip really was. He taked about it after the ordeal. In his words, "The sufferings of the Cherokee were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trial of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty two of them to die in one night of pneumonnia due to ill treatment , cold and
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