As the freezing Cherokee tribe trudged through the bitter winter weather for 800 miles to a land unknown to them, white people would scream, "Massacre! Cherokees on the warpath!" Soldiers would travel with Cherokees, at a 1 to 2 ratio, to comfort the towns they passed on the way. The US government took the Indians from their homes in 1838 in the beautiful Georgia area and sent them where the land was dry and unfertile, leaving hundreds of them to die on the way. The Indians were sent west and their land was sold with no profit awarded to them. Basically, the Indians were stripped of everything and slaughtered so the US could benefit from it and they were given nothing in return, contradicting what the US promised them. The Cherokee thought the US would protect them from the white settlers because of a treaty they grant
             ed, but, the settlers stole their land, their culture, and lives they used to know with no protection from the US even though they wanted to become civilized and designed their government and court system imitating the US's.
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