American Indian Discussion Question

American Indian Discussion Question

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Native Americans, 1800-1850

What was the status of Native Americans under the Constitution?
If you were defending the Cherokee and other native nations before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1830s, what arguments would you make? If you were supporting Indian removal, what arguments would you make?
How did depictions of Native Americans in popular culture help to sway popular opinion?

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The United States Constitution talks of Native American tribes thrice:

Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 expresses that “Agents and direct Taxes should be allocated among the few States … barring Indians not taxed.”[2] According to Story’s Commentaries on the U.S. Constitution, “There were Indians, likewise, in a few, and presumably in most, of the states at that period, who were not regarded as nationals, but then, who did not form a section of independent groups or tribes,

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