It is important to look at history and the removal of the period as many removals because of the absolutely large impact that it had on many different groups of peoples. When we look at the history of removal, especially the removal of native american tribes, it was not simply a single group of people that were affected by the processes involved. In the United States(including Alaskan territories) there are five hundred and seventy four recognized tribes of people, all who had and or have a unique culture, territory, and history different from everybody else. The acts of removal against them were directly correlated to mistreatment and wrongdoings toward these groups. The idea portrays them in such a way that dehumanizes them. The Trail of Tears is the example I fall back on the most, because of its infamy within our history as a whole nation. So many people died or were hurt on the vast relocation to Oklahoma, being pulled from their homelands simply because of the Europeans showing up. This furthered the mistreatment to the west and provided a much more continuous mistreatment of these tribes. They became enslaved, tortured, and pushed farther and farther out of the territories that had been their homeland. The mistreatment however was reinforced by the legal system, and many times we saw the legality of these practices come into question. In class we looked at court cases like Johnson v. Mcintosh which stated that Native Americans had no right to distribute their own land, but the United States government has the sole right to “negotiate” with them, or Worcester v Georgia, which made the governing of Native and Indigenous peoples dependent upon the UNited States to begin with, which allows for more complete control, reversing a previous ruling from a year prior. These acts allowed for the United States to provide themselves with a scapegoat to dehumanize and devalue these native communities, which is a direct correlation to the mistreatment that I have continued to mention throughout this writing. They were in a system that gave them zero jurisdiction or power to even attempt to push back against the new waves of colonization.