Losing the Constitution on the

History 101 Losing the Constitution on the Trail To most people in America in 1830 the Indians and their tribes were nothing. They were lower in stature than the black slaves on farms and in houses. But to some, they were regarded as human beings; people just like any other. People with rights. Rights given to them by their individual tribes, and by the country in which they lived, worked, and died. With the assumption that the …

…took place. But only in the minds of those who had any to begin with. Along with the old saying, “actions speak louder than words”, the actions of the US government during this ten year period spoke volumes versus the words that they spoke to each other in private and kept in hunger inside their minds. Any ethical or moral issues that existed took no place in these decisions, and therefore neither did the Constitution.