Why Is Indian Removal Wrong

The Chief of the Cherokee tribe, John Ross strongly opposed Indian removal, because it was not right to the Indians, and the way the Treaty of New Echota came to be was fake and wrong. In the letter that John Ross wrote to the U.S. congress following the Treaty of New Echota, he explains that the treaty was fake, because the Cherokee tribe leaders picked a group of Indians to make a treaty with the U.S. officials, but a treaty was not made. Therefore, a group of random Cherokee individuals not chosen by any Cherokee tribe leaders met up with United States citizens and made a treaty and the president signed off of it, even though he knew it was wrong. Ross also says that, Indian removal was not right, because the United States took away any