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The Cherokee Nation withstood removal through establishing negotiations,  fighting in the military,  and fighting in court.  Despite their forced migration and the horrors they experienced on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee persevered and went on to establish one of the most powerful and long-lasting tribal governments in the world. The Indian removal act of 1830 caused a lot of disturbance in many native nations, specifically the Cherokee nations because they had the most people and land relative to other nations. In the 1830s, "nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations." This shows how much land and people they had before the United States government wiped out most of the Cherokee nation. However, they did not just let the United States bully them into giving their land back. They used different forms of resistance to go against the removal act such as fighting off and not complying with their rules. In the early 1800s, "The Cherokee began to face enormous pressures to ceded all of their traditional homelands in the East and to move to other lands far away, west of the Mississippi River.

The Cherokee people tried many strategies to avoid removal. As a rebuttal to the illegal signing of the Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee The nation created an official protest petition in 1836". This indicates the pressure they were facing when the treaty passed and how they tried to prevent it from happening. However later on the United States supreme court signed a treaty where certain tribes would be their sovereign Nation. When Samuel Austin Worcester sued the state of Georgia for unlawful imprisonment and a year after that the supreme court allowed certain tribes and nations to be their sovereign states. In 1831, "missionary Samuel Austin Worcester sued the state of Georgia for unlawful imprisonment. In March 1832, the U.S. The Supreme Court rendered its decision, which established the Cherokee and other tribes as sovereign nations within the United States."Although they signed this treaty the native Americans were under many restrictions. Which meant even though they had all this land back they had to give up a lot to the U.S. In conclusion, because of the forced removal of the Cherokee nation, it was largely reduced because of the strict recreation such as brainwashing younger native American generations and using the military power against the native Americans.