Base your answer to question 14 on the quotation below and y…
Base your answer to question 14 on the quotation below and your knowledge of social studies. We wish to remain on the land of our fathers…we see nothing but ruin before us. The country west of the Arkansas territory is unknown to us. From what we can learn of it, we have no idea. All the inviting parts of it, as we believe, are preoccupied by various Indian nations…They would regard us as intruders, and look upon us with an evil eye… All our neighbors, in case of our removal, though crowded into our near vicinity, would speak a language totally different from ours, and practice different customs…Were the country to which we are urged much better than it is represented to be and were it free from the objections which we have made to it, still it is not the land of our birth, nor of our affections. It contains neither the scenes of our childhood, nor the graves of our fathers. An address by a council of Cherokee people to the people of the United States (1830) A historian studying the excerpt above would find it most useful in understanding