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Detailing removal, this document explains some of the ‘logic’ used by the government of the United States during the Jacksonian period. The United States wanted the land and claimed there was plenty of “unmolested” land. The page makes a promise that “the United States further guarantees to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet west.” We know this promise will be broken, and that each treaty kept pushing Native Americans further and further from their homes. The land was not as fertile and had no cultural significance to the Native American religions, history, or lifestyle. As the Native Americans kept getting pushed West, these promises (or compromises) seem to be clear and unapologetic doctrines of taking land with nothing in return. The United States Government broke their own unjust treaties, and this document is proof of it. The apprehension of Cherokee leaders is noted at the bottom of the page, then completely ignored and left unanswered.