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The Constitution's effect on Native Americans The Constitution had a great effect on Native Americans in general. They were effected in three major ways. They are; the change in where they lived and what land was considered theirs, what Religious rights they had and/or have, and lastly, how they have gone from living freely to living on reservations. Native Americans had many changes in their land. In 1830 Congress passed the "Indian Removal Act." Andrew Jackson, the president at the time, quickly signed the bill. The Cherokee tried to keep from being removed by going to court. In the case of Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia, the court refused the case. The Cherokee didn't accept this and went to the Supreme Court. They won the case of Worcester vs.
That was one of many times they would be moved. Through out my research I have found that the constitution didn't cause these things but only allowed them. Eventually they got their own land, reservations (North Georgia history p. Even though this law was in place there was nothing that said it could be enforced. Through out my research I have found that the constitution didn't cause these things but only allowed them. Historical events from then on gave the United States all Native land in what is now the continental United States (Deloria 283). The reservations as a whole have little or no protection from the US government, and as individuals Native Americans have very little protection (Deloria p. There still isn't perfect freedom for them (Traveling the spiritual Path: II. I feel Native Americans haven't been treated fairly at all. " In 1978 congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act which said: [I]t shall be the policy of the United States to protect and preserve for American Indians their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise the traditional religions of the American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiians, including but not limited to access to sites, use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship through ceremonials and traditional rites. The treaty of New Echota, signed by the Natives, gave Jackson the right to remove them, and the Senate ratified it, but it passed by a single vote.
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