Recall and explain the Native American responses to Anglo-American nation building and westward expansion.

US government (SparkNotes , 2006 . However , the government would still not recognize them as one . But one chief justice in the name of John Marshall pointed out that indeed the native tribes are considered as nations . He said that the were not under the authority of the state but just under the federal government jurisdiction . In connection to this , he added that the native tribes are protected under the federal laws . Treaties were passed for this effect . But , these treaties did not in any way made the positions of the natives any better

. An example would be the Treaty of New Echota (SparkNotes 2006 . In this treaty , the Cherokee chief was swayed to hand over their lands to the Anglo-Americans for a price of 5 .6 million US dollars and free transportation to the west . However , the price they were given did not amount to the lives of 2 ,000 to 4 ,000 Cherokees who died as they journeyed their way to the west

One Native American leader , Black Hawk had stood up against the US government . In the early 1830s , the Sauk and Fox Native Americans were said to agree on giving yp their lands for an annuity of a thousand US dollars . But Black Hawk believed that the agreement because the Native Americans were drunk when they signed it . And so , he led Sauk and Fox Native Americans to resist removal actions of the government . In effect a war broke out between them and the US military . But the war still became their loss . Due to lack of food , forces of Black Hawk 's company weakened . Eventually , they were killed near the Res Axe River in August 1831 . Because of this defeat , Native Americans lost rights to their lands in the eastern part of Mississippi (High Beam Encyclopedia , 2000...