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    • President Andrew Jackson is portrayed as a eugenicist who seeks nothing short of the total extinction of the Tribal Nations. Despite receiving aid from Major Ridge in the War of 1812, Jackson immediately works to force the Cherokee off of their land once he's in power, giving Governor Forsyth political backing to force them off and refusing to enforce the Supreme Court's ruling when his actions are deemed unconstitutional. The result is the Trail Of Tears and the deaths of tens of thousands of Native Americans, with thousands more being left homeless and vulnerable to rapes and assaults across the Cherokee Nation. Firmly believing that the Cherokee Nation is doomed to extinction and that the country would soon lose its "Indian flavor", Jackson's policies are responsible for over 150 years of rapes and murders of Cherokee women, with Native American women facing the highest rate of sexual assault of any demographic thanks to him.
    • Governor (John) Forsyth is the governor of Georgia and Jackson's partner in forcing the Cherokee off of their land. To force them off, Forsyth orders his militia to rape any Native women who refuse his orders to leave, then unconstitutionally imprisons Samuel Worcester to prevent the Cherokee from publishing their newspaper. Despite the Supreme Court ruling his actions unconstitutional, Forsyth continues ordering the rape of Native women, eventually driving them off of their land and into the Trail of Tears.

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