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In the very beginning of, Trail of Tears, set the tone of the whole entire movie. The struggle of being born an Indian. John Ridge was a gifted young man and his parent knew so they did everything possible to see that he got a white man’s education. He earned a law degree and eventually married a white man’s daughter. However, he was still an Indian. No matter what he did, he could never escape the fact that he was an Indian. He would never be good enough. Even an uneducated, illiterate white man was considered to be a high class than John Ridge. The curse of being an Indian followed him throughout his entire life. Today, I think Indians still live with this curse. Maybe it is not as bad as it was in then but it is still there. I

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