one created a syllable bowl -- the bible had been translated into the cherokee language. many of them had become christians, many of them now war american dress. this was a highly integrated community. but nevertheless, the principal prevailed, we have to get rid of them. congress passed the indian removal act in 1830 which was signed by president jackson, saying that the five civilized tribes, this is president jackson -- he said, the five civilized tribe should move from their current lands and out onto a place that was then called indian territory. the five groups they had where the seminal's, chicken saws -- and the idea was that it would be a forcible resettlement of population on the other side of the mississippi river out here. this is now oklahoma, it was then called indian territory. the georgia state government passed a law specifying that these lands in these northern area of georgia should be reallocated by a land lottery to white settlers. to forcibly dispossess the former inhabitants and handed over to the weights. this is the prelude to a movement, the trail of tears, by which the cherokee w