Well....Georgia and the gold is the reason I believe the removal was pushed along. First GA started doing stuff as a state to get the natives out of there.....and then Andrew Jackson finally stepped in. I think if you read the history from about when the CHerokee were enlisted to fight with Jackson, against the Creeks....with the payment being the Creek land...you'll see the hand writing on the wall. Georgians weren't getting the kind of support they wanted from the US Government, so they enacted stuff on a state level. Many whites, who wer friends of the Cherokee went to the US Government and asked for intervention. Then laws were enacted that didn't allow the whites to live with or intermarry. This was a law that the Georgians enacted to keep white "friends" of the Cherokee (etc) to speak for them on a federal level. Jackson had to intervene....as these friends who were well known folks appealed on the federal level...but he didn't give them federal troops to uphold that federal intervention....purposely. This is all paraphased ....please go back to Georgia history...previous to the removal and folow that to the actual laws that Jackson finally enacted....to remove all natives from those areas. jes

-----Original Message----- From: HealTheCircle@aol.com To: indian-territory-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 5:21 AM Subject: Re: [INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS] 1834 emigration Well....Georgia and the gold is the reason I believe the removal was pushed along. First GA started doing stuff as a state to get the natives out of there.....and then Andrew Jackson finally stepped in. I think if you read the history from about when the CHerokee were enlisted to fight with Jackson, against the Creeks....with the payment being the Creek land...you'll see the hand writing on the wall. Georgians weren't getting the kind of support they wanted from the US Government, so they enacted stuff on a state level. Many whites, who wer friends of the Cherokee went to the US Government and asked for intervention. Then laws were enacted that didn't allow the whites to live with or intermarry. This was a law that the Georgians enacted to keep white "friends" of the Cherokee (etc) to speak for them on a federal level. Jackson had to intervene....as these friends who were well known folks appealed on the federal level...but he didn't give them federal troops to uphold that federal intervention....purposely. This is all paraphased ....please go back to Georgia history...previous to the removal and folow that to the actual laws that Jackson finally enacted....to remove all natives from those areas. jes ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free.