The document summarizes the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and its devastating impact on Native American tribes. It discusses how the act aimed to negotiate treaties to move tribes west of the Mississippi River to make room for westward expansion. However, many tribes resisted removal from their ancestral lands. Notable examples include the Cherokee taking their case to the Supreme Court, only to have Andrew Jackson ignore the ruling. Ultimately, over 100,000 Native Americans were forcibly relocated in the violent "Trail of Tears," with many dying along the way.